Huawei claims it could become the world's largest smartphone maker next year

Huawei is basically screaming, "Can you hear me now?"

The Chinese smartphone maker said yesterday that it is positioned to become the world's largest smartphone vendor by the end of next year. Huawei just upped its 2018 yearend shipment prediction to more than 200 million, which Huawei chief executive Howard Yu previously expressed as his goal.

“I think it’s no problem that we become the global number two next year," Yu said during a media briefing at the company's Shenzhen (southeast China) headquarters.

"In Q4 next year, it’s possible we become number one." Read more...