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Huawei Faces Public Test as it Unveils Sanction-Hit Phone

Agence France-Presse

   MUNICH, GERMANY - Chinese tech giant Huawei launched its latest
   high-end smartphone in Munich on Thursday, the first of its mobile
   devices not to carry popular Google apps because of U.S. sanctions.

   "Today because of the U.S. ban ... we cannot pre-install" Google's
   applications, said Richard Yu, who heads Huawei's consumer business
   group, as he unveiled the group's latest Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro
   models.

   But heading off fears that a phone without popular apps like Whatsapp,
   YouTube or Google Maps could not succeed, he stressed that the
   equivalent platform by the Chinese giant offered a choice of 45,000
   apps through the Huawei App Gallery.

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