{"id":266054,"date":"2025-11-06T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266054\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:13:09","slug":"huawei-debuts-ultrathin-iphone-air-rival-priced-at-590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266054\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei Debuts Ultrathin iPhone Air Rival Priced at $590"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/40978Z:CH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Huawei Technologies Co.<\/a> added a thin new handset to its lineup, offering Chinese consumers a direct competitor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/AAPL:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Apple Inc.<\/a>\u2019s iPhone Air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmall.com\/product\/comdetail\/index.html?prdId=10086384239615\" title=\"HUAWEI Mate 70 Air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Huawei Mate 70 Air<\/a> measures 6.6mm thick and costs 4,199 yuan ($590), significantly undercutting the $999 iPhone Air on price but failing to match its extreme thinness. Apple introduced the Air branding to its smartphone lineup for the first time with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-09-10\/apple-s-awe-dropping-iphone-air-iphone-17-launch-impressions-and-takeaways?sref=QpGTssUQ\" title=\"Apple Pitches iPhone Air as the Future, But Pro Models Are Better Today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">the new phone<\/a> launched alongside its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-09-23\/apple-iphone-17-air-17-pro-and-17-pro-max-review-the-best-iphones-in-years?sref=QpGTssUQ\" title=\"Apple\u2019s iPhone 17 Line Wins By Returning the Focus to Hardware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">iPhone 17 generation<\/a> this fall \u2014 and Huawei is openly going against it by adopting the same moniker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huawei Technologies Co. added a thin new handset to its lineup, offering Chinese consumers a direct competitor to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7175,5806,49,48,95,18185,27755,1575,100,190,1574,61,14237,90348],"class_list":{"0":"post-266054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple-inc","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-china-renminbi-spot","14":"tag-emerging-markets","15":"tag-iphone","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-mobile","18":"tag-smartphone","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-utilities","21":"tag-xiaomi-corp-class-b"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}