How Huawei can break Apple and Samsung’s smartphone grip


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 10 Jan 2018

A crew hangs a Huawei advertising banner on the side of the Las Vegas Convention Center as workers prepare for the 2018 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 5, 2018. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Americans are boringly predictable when it comes to smartphone shopping. Roughly three-quarters of Americans with smartphones own either a Samsung or Apple device. Every other mobile phone maker is competing for scraps. 

Perhaps the company with the best shot at shaking things up, China's Huawei Technologies Co, has suffered a big blow to its ambitions to dislodge the Coke and Pepsi of the US smartphone market. 

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