Today, Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) revealed its expected 2016 annual performance figures. Last year in 2016, CBG predicts sales revenue of 178 billion RMB, 42% up from a year ago, achieving steady growth for the fifth consecutive year. Smartphone shipments also reached 139 million units with 29% year-on-year growth, outperforming the overall market.

Are you excited for CES 2017? We know we are, for those who aren't familiar with it, CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show and this year marks the 50th anniversary for all tech geeks and nerds alike. As one of the largest shows on the planet, this year will be held in Las Vegas and several key players are set to present something awesome.

Just yesterday, Huawei announced their latest breakthrough in their website of a breakthrough in Li-ion batteries, unveiling the world's first long-lifespan graphene-assisted Li-ion battery that is able to withstand hot environments.

Last week, Huawei co-hosted a Huawei Innovation Day Asia-Pacific in Sydney, Australia, with the collaboration with the Committee for Sydney and the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN). Under the theme ‘Brilliance of Exploration’, over 150 experts and researchers from many different industries, institutions, government agencies and representatives of the media came together discussing various topics, such as opening an ecosystem.

A new report has appeared online; stating that Samsung’s Tizen OS for the smartwatch may have found a new customer. The brand to look out for is Huawei, and we may see a Tizen-powered smartphone from them pretty soon.

With the success of the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus, Leica and Huawei has recently signed a partnership into a new join venture called the ‘Max Berek Innovation Lab’. The two companies will be collaborating on development of new optical systems and software technologies to improve imaging quality in smartphones and other photographic applications.

With the rumour mill of Huawei Mate 9 and Mate S2 making the fans excited, we have a new report that one of the executives from the company mentioning in an interview that a new series will be introduced for the mid-range market. What does this mean? Well, definitely not a new Mate model.

You know Android is the king of smartphone when you get numbers like this – a report online shared that the OS from Google is currently holding about 86.2% of the world smartphone market share for the first half of 2016. Trailing way behind is iOS with under 12%.  

The smartphone business is always a tough war to compete with each brand offers their best of the best flagship and budget devices. Yesterday, a Market research firm TrendForce has released market numbers for Q2 2016. Surprisingly, Huawei took a the lead in China with nearly 21% share. Do note that, China is the world's largest smartphone market.

In regards to the news of Huawei working on its own OS, we previously reported that that Huawei has hired a former Apple designer to design their new independent mobile OS, even a team of developers is in Scandinavia now working on the mobile OS (rumours). News has reached the ears of Huawei CEO, Richard Yu and he has responded to the news in a positive manner.