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Huawei’s Q2 2025 growth fueled by Nova 14 (Canalys).
Huawei’s Nova 14 series is driving its strong comeback in the Chinese smartphone market for Q2 2025, reports Canalys. This shows how mid-range phones can lead a brand’s growth.
Huawei has officially reclaimed its top position in the Chinese smartphone market for Q2 2025, according to data shared by Canalys today. This comeback is particularly notable because it happened even as the total smartphone sales in China saw a decline.
Huawei’s Nova 14 series is the key to their Q2 2025 success in China. These phones, launched this year with the reliable HarmonyOS 5.0, really excited buyers looking for affordable options, says Canalys.
Lucas Zhong, the Analyst at Canalys, noted:
A Big Step for Huawei’s Ecosystem! The Nova 14 series is Huawei’s first Nova phone lineup to come with the stable HarmonyOS 5.0. This move is expected to quickly expand the number of users in Huawei’s own independent software ecosystem.
Huawei’s success is also thanks to its strong supply chain. Over the past few months, Huawei has gotten much better at making enough devices to meet what customers want, and delivering them on time.
Meanwhile, the company is giving special attention to the Chinese subsidy. Over the past year, Huawei has integrated the subsidy schemes into many models, including the flagship handsets, middle-range smartphone series, and entry-level phones.
The combined efforts led to ship approximately 12.2 million phones during Q2 2025. This significant volume resulted in Huawei achieving an 18% market share and a strong 15% annual growth rate, securing its position as the top vendor.
Vivo is second on the list as models like X200, S30, and Y300 series helped it to target a wider range of customer segments in China. It sold 11.8 million devices and captured 17% of the market share. Though it faced a decline of 10% in its progress.
OPPO secures third place in China’s Q2 2025 smartphone market. They shipped 10.7 million units and hold a 16% market share.
Apple Takes Fifth Spot in China Q2 2025 Smartphone Market. Despite a 4% overall market decline, Apple sold 10.1 million units, securing 15% market share and achieving a 4% annual growth.
The open-source OS openEuler is expected to surpass 16 million installations by the end of this year, according to Huawei.
Addressing an operating system conference in Beijing, Huawei executive Yang Chaobin said the relentless pace of AI-driven change in every industry is creating computing needs that exceed what traditional clusters can provide.
He emphasized Huawei’s commitment to fostering a healthy open-source ecosystem by opening its core technologies to industry partners. As a key contribution, the company has provided the open-source Euler community with an operating system plugin that supports supernodes, delivering essential capabilities including unified memory addressing, low-latency heterogeneous computing, and global resource pooling.
The openEuler community, now in its sixth year, reports widespread global adoption with support from 2,100 organizations and a contributor base exceeding 23,000 individuals. The project has also recorded over 5.5 million users.
However, the cumulative user base for the operating system is expected to grow to more than 16 million by the end of 2025.
Major names like AMD, Inspur Cloud, and Digital China have joined the openEuler community this year, propelling its install base to record levels. The operating system is also seeing sustained growth in popularity across China’s industrial sector.
It is widely applied to industries such as the internet, networking, government affairs, finance, public utilities, and energy.
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Amid ongoing work on new smartphones, Huawei continues its regular security maintenance by releasing the November 2025 patch details for EMUI and HarmonyOS. The update resolves numerous security vulnerabilities across a variety of eligible devices.
The November 2025 EMUI patch provides a comprehensive security upgrade for Huawei devices. It fixes known issues from the last update and proactively strengthens device defenses against newly emerging threats.
In accordance with the official patch notes, Huawei resolved a total of 18 vulnerabilities in the November 2025 update, comprising 4 high-severity and 14 medium-severity issues. The affected components included system applications and services such as Settings, screen recording, video data processing, the Gallery, calling, and the app lock module.
Besides, it has detected 18 third-party library defects. Thus, users will observe a complete bug-free experience after installing the latest security patch on their handsets.
With the public beta now available for select high-end devices, Huawei is intensifying its development of HarmonyOS 6.0. The full, stable version is anticipated to launch with the flagship Mate 80 smartphones.
The firm will soon release the new security update to its devices. Meanwhile, you can check the security details of the new patch in the section given below.
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High;
- CVE-2025-58302, CVE-2025-58303, CVE-2025-58306, CVE-2025-58316
- Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 6.0, HarmonyOS 5.1, HarmonyOS 5.0.1, HarmonyOS 4.3.1, HarmonyOS 4.3, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 15, EMUI 14.2, EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12
Medium:
- CVE-2025-58304, CVE-2025-58305, CVE-2025-58307, CVE-2025-58308, CVE-2025-58309, CVE-2025-58310, CVE-2025-58311, CVE-2025-58312, CVE-2025-58314, CVE-2025-58315, CVE-2025-64311, CVE-2025-64312, CVE-2025-64313, CVE-2025-58294
- Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 6.0, HarmonyOS 5.1, HarmonyOS 5.0.1, HarmonyOS 4.3.1, HarmonyOS 4.3, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 15, EMUI 14.2, EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12
Third-Party Library Defects:
High:
- CVE-2025-0089, CVE-2025-32325, CVE-2025-48523, CVE-2025-48529, CVE-2025-48534, CVE-2025-48542, CVE-2025-48550, CVE-2025-48561, CVE-2025-3212, CVE-2025-48533, CVE-2024-43069, CVE-2025-48563, CVE-2025-38555
- Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 4.3.1, HarmonyOS 4.3, HarmonyOS 4.2, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 15, EMUI 14.2, EMUI 14, EMUI 13, EMUI 12
Medium
- CVE-2025-25277, CVE-2025-38342, CVE-2025-38668, CVE-2025-27809
- Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 5.1, HarmonyOS 5.0.1
Low
- CVE-2025-38617
- Affected Versions: HarmonyOS 6.0, HarmonyOS 5.1, HarmonyOS 5.0.1
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Huawei has begun rolling out the HarmonyOS 6.0.0.20 update to the Watch GT 5 Pro, bringing the highly anticipated tap-to-pay functionality. For now, access is limited to participants of the early testing program.
The September 2024-introduced Huawei Watch GT 5 series offers both standard and Pro variants. These watches boast a vibrant palette including Titanium Silver and Glacier White, alongside a long-lasting 14-day battery.
The HarmonyOS 6 beta for the Watch GT 5 Pro packs even more upgrades beyond tap-to-pay. Here’s a look at the other new features.
The update introduces highly customizable sticker watch faces. Beyond choosing from three unique and flexible layouts, the key feature is the ability to upload your own custom stickers. You can display up to five personal images at the same time, enabling deep personalization for a unique look.
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The new “Module 2025” watch face supports a free combination of various-sized widgets and allows for easy switching of theme colors, boasting that “it looks good no matter how you style it.”
This update enables Alipay’s “Tap to Pay” feature for swift and easy transactions. The process is seamless: just raise your wrist and tap the screen, even from an off state. To protect your payments, a lock screen password must be entered for confirmation if one is set on your watch.
Please note that this feature is currently only available for users in China. A global release has not been announced by Huawei.
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