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Forgive me for not going into more detail on these points but I have been through them many times here and they aren't very on topic for this thread.

Battery tech is more than chemistry. It is chemistry and electronics. Huawei SuperCharge is more than capacity and watts. The whole charging process forms part of the technology, from the charger, cable and the different gates within the phone. The cable/charger has chips in it and there are multiple chips/sensors/safety gates within the phone to make sure heat isn't an issue. They have used graphene as a cooling element too within batteries and altered the molecular structure of current battery tech (this last advance hasn't actually been used on a phone yet).

Here is an - old - video overview to SuperCharge but it is visual and clear. Things have improved since then, of course.



Add on TüV certification, and safety, in spite of the risks inherent to batteries, seems to be covered. Degradation isn't really an issue. I have used Huawei fast charging on other phones and 'punished' them. One bought at the same time as an iPhone 6. With far less charging, the iPhone needed a battery replacement long before the Huawei and the iPhone was using the standard 5W charger.

As I said, Huawei has an entire research lab dedicated to battery technology but phones are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of use cases.

https://www.naefrontiers.org/184165/Abstract [.pdf] A simple abstract but it points to what Huawei is researching.

https://www.huawei.com/en/press-events/news/2016/12/Graphene-Assisted-Li-ion-Batteries

Huawei has also announced Lithium-Silicon for upcoming handsets.

All fruits of Watt Lab R&D.

On modems, I was talking mainly about wireless communication - and in that context. Remember that Apple is a consumer electronics company and little else in the broader scheme of things. Huawei extends far beyond that space. In fact it was only last year that its Consumer Group itself came to prominence within the company. With the exception of the A Series chips, most of Apple's other chips are relatively new (and great) additions. Huawei has its own chip division and has been in operation far longer than Apple's internal setup and produces all kinds of chips, not unlike Qualcomm. The difference is that they have been more focused on non-consumer electronics  products. That said, last year they announced an entire platform of new chips (Ascend) which will reach down into the CE realm.

https://blog.huawei.com/2019/02/05/activating-ai-power-with-the-ascend-chipset/

Expect more on that front. Of course, in the modem space Huawei also holds a wide spread of patents. I read the other day that Apple does have some 5G patents. Around 11 I think. Huawei has around 1,500 and it is a major contributor to the technology. It is rumoured that, even excepting 5G, Apple licences almost 800 patents from Huawei.

'Shell design' isn't so much 'industrial design' in what I was referring to. I was mainly referring to offering colours and finishes that hit the market and 'turn heads' as it were. As I said, it is a bit of a lottery but Huawei is way ahead of Apple in what it is offering now (and last year too). It has a huge advantage in being able to experiment with different ideas - in a real world setting - and try them in different markets through the year. I think the quote I gave summed things up very well. The Max looks 'boring' with a Breathing Crystal P30 Pro by its side. It's not the 'industrial design' or how great it is. It is how consumers react to it. Last year's Twilight finish wasn't the first on the market but it became the finish that got the wows. As a result we now have a new range of gradients that are also getting lots of 'wows'. At some point gradients will not be fashionable but it won't be this year. That's how fashion works.

On imaging, yes I am aware of what Apple has produced but it is behind. I'm not sure what you mean with the image processing. All output to a format is processed. You can choose RAW output if you wish. As I said, the trend in phone cameras isn't just the quality but the versatility. Again, Apple needs to provide more on that front or it will have issues competing.

chadbag said:

schmrtzzz said:

rcfa said:

Apple should build a modern nuclear power plant, that would be truly green…
…Gates is further along that road than “visionary” Apple, which is more interested in virtue signaling and greenwashing.

New to me that nuclear waste is green. Great work, Tim. Apple should get much more credit for this. 

Nuclear is the only reliable source of energy that does not give off large amounts of carbon.   Wind and solar are not reliable in that they require wind and sun to be effective.   Things that are not always on hand on any given day.  They are great to augment supplies.  Germany is getting rid of their nukes. France has embraced them.  Guess which one has made great strides in reducing carbon output.    Or Germany.  But France has.  If you want a carbon less modern society, nuclear is the key