There have also been anecdotal reports of consumers attempting to trade in Huawei hardware. He said Huawei has leap-frogged brands including BlackBerry to become the country’s third most popular smartphone after Apple and Samsung. Worldwide, Huawei is now the the second-largest smartphone vendor after Samsung. That would cut off the latest Huawei phones, tablets and laptops from access to U.S. made microprocessor unit computer chip sets and software updates from American vendors including Google’s Android. “The big question will come to whether people prefer the handset or the software,” said Emily Taylor, a U.K.-based cyber security expert and CEO of Oxford Information Labs.

Source: thestar May 23, 2019 19:28 UTC