A staff member tests the speed with a Huawei 5G mobile phone at Huawei 5G Innovation and Experience Center in London, Britain, on Jan. 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Han Yan)

Chinese technology giant Huawei, facing rising pressure from a US government crackdown, said on Thursday that its latest phone series P40 contains no technology from Google. The new phone is ready for sale overseas, and the company has expressed confidence that it could maintain growth in global markets without using software from US-based Google.

Huawei released its 5G P40 phone series in Paris on March 27, shaking off the COVID-19 pandemic's impact. The P series handsets are equipped with an updated Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem and new apps, which are the firm's replacement for Google's GMS service.  

Available in more than 170 countries and regions, the HMS has over 4 million monthly active users and more than 1.3 million developers and partners globally.

"Our phone series carrying Huawei's self-developed Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) system sold well in foreign countries," and we believe that Huawei will also do well in the next six months and achieve full-year growth, Richard Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said on Thursday.

Huawei can choose not to use any US components, but it is still using some to maintain its relationship with US suppliers and "take care of their businesses," Yu said.

Huawei said that its first-quarter revenue in the consumer business also "maintained very good growth momentum," though overseas markets dimmed due to the spreading coronavirus pandemic.

Yu said that Huawei's market share in China has quickly recovered from the COVID-19 impact since the end of February, as it is likely to have achieved 70-80 percent sales growth in March.

Global Times