The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Honor has presented its first smartphone after separating from Huawei. The View 40 has so far only been announced for the Chinese market, but could also come onto the market in Europe at a later date.

Huawei had deported its former subsidiary brand Honor last November. The Chinese tech giant justified this step with the shortage of technical components for the mobile business: Due to the trade embargo in the USA, it is difficult for Huawei to get parts for mobile phone production.

Among other things, it is difficult for Huawei to get access to mobile processors. Manufacturers such as TSMC no longer supply Huawei with parts, which is why the production of its own Kirin chips is difficult.

Honor concludes contracts with manufacturers As a company that is independent of Huawei, Honor does not meet these restrictions directly. Honor says it has already signed contracts with producers such as Qualcomm, MediaTek, Micron, SK Hynix, Samsung and Sony. The View 40 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 1000 +.

Thanks to further partnerships with AMD, Intel and Microsoft, Honor could also develop notebooks. The US government recently banned Intel from working with Huawei.

It is also likely that Honor will get a Google license. That would mean that Honor phones can use the Play services in full – including the Google Play Store. This is not the case with Huawei: Because the tech giant can only offer smartphones with an alternative and far inferior app store, smartphone sales are collapsing in the western market. Huawei can only compensate for this because sales figures in China – where Google services are already blocked – are developing strongly.

(dahe)