Nearly seven years after it was sanctioned under the US g...

Nearly seven years after it was sanctioned under the US government's trade blacklist, Huawei Technologies on Thursday launched its latest flagship handset, the Mate 80 Pro, in Spain to drive a major comeback in the global smartphone market. #Gadgets Powered by the company’s self-designed, China-made Kirin 9030 Pro processor, the overseas version of its Mate 80 Pro handset will run on the Android-based EMUI 15 operating system, Huawei announced at a launch event in Madrid. While the domestic version of the Mate 80 Pro runs on Huawei’s proprietary HarmonyOS, the overseas model, priced at 1,299 euros (US$1,533), shares the same in-house system-on-a-chip, which the company touted as its most advanced for handsets. The overseas roll-out of the Mate 80 Pro, which was launched in China in November, marked the Shenzhen-based tech giant’s return overseas with a bar-type handset, four years after it launched the Mate 50 series in 2022. The event showed Huawei’s renewed push into the global smartphone market, after it overcame crippling US tech sanctions to successfully return as a domestic leader in China, the world’s largest smartphone market. In 2025, Huawei edged out Apple to reclaim the No 1 spot in mainland China’s smartphone market, capturing a 16.4 per cent share to narrowly beat the iPhone maker’s 16.2 per cent, according to data from research firm IDC in January. https://www.scmp.com/tech..