Huawei: what’s the problem with Chinese phones?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Chinese company Huawei wants to be the biggest tech firm in the world. But this week the US tried to squash it by cutting Huawei off from Google’s Android operating system, meaning that users’ phones may no longer get security updates. It’s the latest move in an ongoing trade war between the US and China. So how much is this about phones, and how much is it about a battle for global supremacy? BBC Click’s Jen Copestake, Vincent Ni from the BBC Chinese Service and our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera tell us the answer. Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:08.2	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.8	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, what's the problem with Chinese phones?
0:25.0	Right, Huawei.
0:32.0	Right, Huawei.
0:33.0	Huawei.
0:34.0	Now this is my first time seeing a Huawei phone.
0:36.0	Okay, let me hand this over to you.
0:38.0	That's the P30 Pro that's out in the UK now.
0:40.0	Okay.
0:41.0	It's a 900 pounds phone.
0:42.6	Jen Copsteak is a reporter for BBC Click, the tech team here, and they always get sent
0:47.8	the latest gadgets.
0:48.8	So there's a small button on the site there, just pull that down.
0:51.2	Got it.
0:52.2	Right, and then and then it unlocked.
0:54.0	We're in.
0:55.0	What do you think?
0:56.0	The whole thing is a screen.
0:58.0	It's beautiful.
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