Huawei shipped 118 million phones in the first half of the year; Mate 30 line might not use Android

We told you earlier today that despite being unable to access its U.S. supply chain since May, Huawei still managed to blow away the competition in its home country. For the second quarter of this year, the manufacturer shipped 37.3 million handsets domestically, an impressive-no-matter-how-you-slice-it annual gain of 31%. The next name on the list, Oppo, delivered less than half of the number of phones that Huawei did during the quarter.

Now, to be fair, the quarter was roughly half over when the Trump administration, citing security, placed Huawei on the Entity List. ...