Welcome to the Tech Meamie Right Home for Monday, February 24th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the Phantom announcements from Mobile World Congress start trickling in.

Safari might be getting strict with HTTPS certificates.

Apple might release an arm-based Mac as soon as early 2021.

Tons of specs revealed about the Xbox Series X, and FinTech continues to be on a role.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So what's probably going to happen this week is we're going to start to get all of the

news stories that would have been made at Mobile World Congress had that event not been

cancelled. We'll start to see those announcements trickle out over the course of the week.

Like this three fur from Huawei. First of all, Huawei debuted the Mate XS, a foldable smartphone with an 8 inch unfolded screen and a 6.6 inch

folded up display.

Also a Curran chip set and 8 gigabytes of RAM coming in late 2020 for 2,490 euros. Crucially, the phone has no play store access because, again, Huawei is forbidden to use Google Services.

Huawei also unveiled the Mate Pad Pro 5G, which is a 10.8 inch tablet that is gunning for the iPad pro because it sports a 7,260

MAH battery has 5G integrated and has an optional keyboard and stylus. It's coming in April

starting at 749 euro but again it has no Google Play apps quoting 9 to 5

Google. Both devices will rely heavily on the Huawei App Gallery,

which will be the default App Store for everyone globally.

This was expected ahead of time

as the US trade ban remains very much in place for the foreseeable future.

Both the Huawei MateXS and MatePad Pro 5G come with EMUI 10 atop Android 10 out of the box.

For those wondering, the software is essentially the same

as you would expect with a standard Google Play

certified device just without direct or official

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