Next Honor phone for USA?

[Guytronic]

Yep...
It is smart.
Where are the new phones aimed at US users however?

Honor has 3 old phones and one sort of smartwatch (Honor Z1) available in US right now.
All of them running old versions or currently unsupported for updates.

I'm not so sure that's "smart" for US consumers.

 

[Aljean Thein]

Old versions? 6X, Honor 8..idk the 3rd one has nougat. it's old only cause Oreo just got released. All phones but a couple of phones are running on the old versions... hmm

 

[Guytronic]

Still no new phones slated for the US.

 

[Aljean Thein]

Not yet

 

[Guytronic]

Not even a rumor of any US honor launch.
At least none that I see.

Honor should be fine with Euro, Asia and India markets.
Far as I see the US is a lost cause against LG and Samsung not to mention the iPhone.

 

[Morty2264]

Huawei seems to be into rebranding and renaming devices for particular markets. I really don't see anything bad about that - as long as each device was a bit unique. Could be we see something similar from them in the US.

Interesting that the Honor USA website seems to have gone cold recently. I don't think they have given up on USA/N. America. The Mate 10 Pro will be released here. Maybe when the Mate 10 Pro is released we'll also see a new Honor phone released at the same time?? Early January 2018?

Seeing more Honor and Huawei phones here would be great! Especially so soon!

 

[Dconn1975]

Why such the seem to heated debate between you two. I think we should all agree to disagree. In time both Huawei and honor will release more phones whether it be sooner or later. The honor 8 is their US flagship. Their plans are to enter the US. If they were not to update the honor 8 at least here due to it being their flagship then that would be one of the worst business decisions they could possibly make here and believe me they didn't become number three or two in the world based off bad business decisions. They know they have to be careful here in the US bc they know they are about to enter it for the long term. I don't see them making a bad decision upsetting a base of US customers they've already established and not update their US flagship phone any further. Will the update be on a timely manner? No I don't think so but they will indeed make sure they update this phone as promised. Why would they even entertain entering the US market with a poor reputation before they officially enter in to our market. None of that makes any sense for a sound business decision. I just think we will be late getting the update but they will follow through with their business promise to the established customer base they have here. It's not going to be one extreme or another meaning they will jump on it right away nor not ever do it. I believe they will just not be in any hurry to do so. That's my take on it from owning my own business and always thinking about my customers first. So we all will eventually get what they initially promised but the only question is "when".

 

[br77494]

I will say that Huawei made the task of building brand recognition in the USA a bit more difficult for themselves last year by splitting their product line into Huawei and Honor. Both new names to the USA market. So they made their task of building recognition twice as much work!

We know they are going to release the Mate 10 Pro in the USA and keep building the Huawei brand here. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what else they have planned. But I sure hope USA sees more from Huawei and Honor than just the Mate 10 pro.

 

[Dconn1975]

I will say that Huawei made the task of building brand recognition in the USA a bit more difficult for themselves last year by splitting their product line into Huawei and Honor. Both new names to the USA market. So they made their task of building recognition twice as much work!

We know they are going to release the Mate 10 Pro in the USA and keep building the Huawei brand here. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what else they have planned. But I sure hope USA sees more from Huawei and Honor than just the Mate 10 pro.

I personally think we will remain to continue to see both in way or another. Whether or not if they release another honor flagship would be my question to them. I know it's been stated that the honor 8 sales were poor but I think personally they expected this as the phone is only an unlocked device with no carrier ties then add that Huawei Honor was already unknown here. To me this makes total sense that they would have never expected the honor or Huawei phones in the US to break any records in sales or in other words they knew it was only a starting point. I feel for what they were up against that the honor 8 did just as they expected it would if not better due to the circumstances that we're in place upon it's initial release. This is why I believe we will still see both brands continued to be released in the US as from here they will only grow stronger in the US market just now only having just established themselves here which has only been for a year now. With all that said I think they have not done all that bad. Look at the mate 9 which was released after the honor 8. It did pretty well here and it was twice as expensive as the honor 8 which was the phone that actually put them on the map in the US bringing their brand recognition into existence. I believe they know exactly what they are doing business wise and they already know what phones will be next to be released but simply not disclosing it for business anticipation purposes. Keeping people interested in what's coming next is a marketing scheme in business. Again they did not become number two world wide for poor business decisions. That's why I believe we will in fact get more updates to the honor 8 as it's their current honor flagship here in the US and also the phone that sparked their initial presence in the US. I don't see them just totally not giving the honor 8 what they promised as a good business practice from a strong more than well established mobile phone company that's number two world wide. My question to them would be will they continue with both brands here in a flagship manner or will they focus their efforts on one more than the other moving forward. I do think they will follow through with their previous stated commitments to all the phones they've released here thus far. I think personally they will continue to release a mixture of both honor and Huawei to Target two different customer bases. Just like their branding already is which Huawei being their high end flagship and honor bring their upper end mid range. That's been successful in every part of the rest of the world so I think the same will apply here in the US but right now they are still very new to this market so we are only seeing them grow slowly as I would expect that anyway with an unknown company of any kind in a new market. You have to establish yourself first by delivering on promises which builds a strong customer base do I see them actually releasing more phones than less phones but still on a slow progression over the next two years which by that time they will be just about ready to officially enter the US full blown and by then most of the US will then already be familiar with them as a superior mobile phone company strictly based off their track record they've slowly established.

 

[dpham00]

I will say that Huawei made the task of building brand recognition in the USA a bit more difficult for themselves last year by splitting their product line into Huawei and Honor. Both new names to the USA market. So they made their task of building recognition twice as much work!

We know they are going to release the Mate 10 Pro in the USA and keep building the Huawei brand here. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what else they have planned. But I sure hope USA sees more from Huawei and Honor than just the Mate 10 pro.

That is true. One brand is easier to push for recognition. I understand what they where doing... Tackling both the high end and lower end simultaneously... But that's a difficult task

 

[dpham00]

Not even a rumor of any US honor launch.
At least none that I see.

Honor should be fine with Euro, Asia and India markets.
Far as I see the US is a lost cause against LG and Samsung not to mention the iPhone.

I wouldn't say that it is a lost cause, but they need to put a lot more effort and money in if they wish to succeed

 

[dpham00]

Yep...
It is smart.
Where are the new phones aimed at US users however?

Honor has 3 old phones and one sort of smartwatch (Honor Z1) available in US right now.
All of them running old versions or currently unsupported for updates.

I'm not so sure that's "smart" for US consumers.

My Huawei watch 2 has been decently supported.

 

[gtt1]

First thing they need to do is rebrand with a name people can say when they see Huawei. Most North Americans haven't a clue how to pronounce it. I didn't until they started putting lots of TV commercials for their phones in Canada the past 3 months.

Who looks at Huawei and sees Waway, Push the device names to a brand recognition and keep it to only a few names like Honor and Mate.

They must be doing something right globally as the overtook Apple in Sep. to sell more phones and are now second to Samsung

 

[dpham00]

First thing they need to do is rebrand with a name people can say when they see Huawei. Most North Americans haven't a clue how to pronounce it. I didn't until they started putting lots of TV commercials for their phones in Canada the past 3 months.

Who looks at Huawei and sees Waway, Push the device names to a brand recognition and keep it to only a few names like Honor and Mate.

They must be doing something right globally as the overtook Apple in Sep. to sell more phones and are now second to Samsung

That's probably temporary as that was just before the new iPhone came out

 

[Guytronic]

First thing they need to do is rebrand with a name people can say when they see Huawei.

I don't mind the "Waway" actually yet it is a tough sell if people can't say the name.

Huawei was hard to figure out at first.
Kind of like "Xiaomi" or "Showme" I guess.

 

[dpham00]

Perhaps the honor name would be an easier sell?

 

[Aljean Thein]

When I first got my Honor 8, I was pronouncing Huawei wrong for the first month or so. And the two name is a bit confusing for many people.

 

[Dconn1975]

That is true. One brand is easier to push for recognition. I understand what they where doing... Tackling both the high end and lower end simultaneously... But that's a difficult task

Once the US get used to it then it will be fine and just the norm for them here to do it that way. But until then it can be confusing yes.

 

[dpham00]

It would certainly be interesting. I mean all the other brands have just one brand for high end and low end

 

[Aljean Thein]

I really like the Honor brand name tho