Yesterday the alarms went off: some media claimed that if the Huawei family's phone sales were lower than expected (because of Trump's blockade), el new Honor 20 would be discontinued and would not even set foot on European soil. Today the Chinese giant has had to come to the fore to deny such information and give some feedback about the phone situation. This is what we know.
Honor 20: a bestseller in China, without a passport to Europe?
We already said it when we told you about our Opinion about the Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro: Huawei's sister brand phones had unfortunately arrived in the worst possible moment, given that they were officially announced just two days after it was made public that the Chinese brand was blacklisted by the US. This caused the inevitable delay in the sale of the smartphone and many media (including the Spanish) were left without being able to test a unit of the terminal (beyond the place where the event was held).
It was pointed out at that time that the smartphone could go out to the shop windows in June, although without giving a specific date on the calendar and with a certain air of caution, waiting to see how things evolved between Huawei and the US. Although these seem to have calmed down a bit and there is talk of a possible lock delay, with a three-year extension, uncertainty continues to reign in the environment and in the case of the Honor 20, its signs of life were conspicuous by their absence. Until yesterday.
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Some North American media began to echo a strong rumor indicating that the Honor 20 could become discontinued. The reason would, of course, be Trump's ban on Huawei and how this could affect the company's sales. According to the information, the Asian company was considering a drop of up to 60% in the distribution of its phones and faced with such a scenario, it preferred to cut it in the bud and not waste time with a new phone that had little prospect of being sold in Europe.
Nothing is further from reality. Given the turn that this information is taking, Huawei has decided to issue a brief official answer, which is collected today by the media Android Central, in which it indicates that the global distribution of the Honor 20 will continue according to the established plans and that nothing has changed, also ensuring that the terminal is a sales success in China:
[The] Honor 20 Pro is available for sale in China and will soon be available in the overseas market. [The Honor 20] has been selling very well since it was launched in China and sold over a million in 14 days.
There should therefore be no fear of the no arrival of the Honor 20 to European territory. What's more, the smartphone is scheduled to go on sale in the UK on 21 June (within just three days), so it won't take us long to prove that the rumor of its discontinuation was false. After its release on the British market, the phone is expected to do the same in other countries of the Old Continent, including Spain, in the next quarter.
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As for the drop in Huawei sales, although at first there were moments of crisis, the brand seems to be recovering slightly scared in the Spanish market. This is observed at least in the numbers of the Huawei phones in Movistar, Vodafone and Orange operators, where after a few weeks of decline -logical given all that was known about the Trump veto-, the brand has begun to reverse its trend, picking up its sales slightly again.