Today, Huawei has announced their company’s role as an all-round strategic partner to countries looking to advance economic and social development. This was outlined at the Digital Transformation Forum, as Huawei continues to be committed in creating value for communities by collaborating with operators to help them maximize network assets, deploy home broadband and indoor digitalization, and drive connectivity to enhance the user experience, while promoting economic and social growth.

During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei was awarded the ‘Outstanding Contribution for LTE Evolution to 5G’ as well as Best Technology Enabler for NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) solution. It’s noted that this is the first year that GSMA has chosen to present the award for 5th generation mobile networks (5G), which Huawei showcased at the event with their “4.5G Evolution to 5G” solution for high-quality coverage, ultra-large capacity and flexible network architecture, helping operators to keep ahead on the road to 5G and making it a reality.

In an unrelated Huawei mobile news, it was recently announced that Huawei Consumer Business Group and The Pantone Color Institute have partnered to feature the latest trend colours in Huawei’s upcoming product launches. But what does this mean?

Huawei and Oracle officially signed a Power IoT Ecosystem Partnership MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) recently, which will see them continuing their cooperation to provide a robust end-to-end AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) solution, helping power and grid companies to improve customer experience and operation efficiency, achieving energy saving and emission reduction.

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.

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.

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.

On 25 May 2016, Huawei has filed lawsuits on Samsung in the United States and China, including District Court for the Northern District of California and  Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court for patent infringement. As a major holder of standard essential patents relating to cellular networks, Huawei is committed to licensing these patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms, but it believes that it is entitled to reasonable compensation from firms that use its technology without such a license.

Huawei Consumer Business Group and Leica Camera AG have announced a strategic long-term partnership to reinvent smartphone photography. Both are leaders in their respective fields but there are no specific details about any upcoming Huawei-Leica cameraphones just yet. The partnership will include research and development, design, co-engineering, user experience, marketing and retail distribution. Hopefully this will result in more value devices but for now check out they had to say about it in this article.