Huawei Consumer Business Group focuses on user experience and builds high-quality cloud services for the world

[Shenzhen, China] On April 12, 2017, the 14th Huawei Global Analyst Conference was held in Shenzhen, attracting more than 500 analysts and media from around the world. At the conference, Huawei Consumer Business introduced its operating performance, brand performance, and ecological construction based on consumer cloud services in 2016, and fully explained Huawei Consumer Business's terminal strategy for the future "+ Intelligence" era - in the future, Huawei Consumer Business will focus on the two major technological revolutions of intelligence and interaction, actively deploy future smart products, and achieve a leapfrog upgrade in terminal consumer experience.

The positioning of Huawei's terminal consumer cloud service is to focus on user experience, provide valuable digital cloud services to Huawei's terminal users around the world, enhance user stickiness, and build a cloud service ecosystem for the sustainable development of Huawei's terminal products. Su Jie, President of Huawei's Consumer Business Cloud Service Department, introduced that by the end of 2016, the number of Huawei's consumer cloud service users with registered Huawei accounts had exceeded 210 million worldwide, covering more than 200 countries and regions around the world.

Seven high-quality cloud services leading the world

Huawei Consumer Cloud Service uses the Internet approach and end-cloud collaboration to provide Huawei mobile phone users with safe, rich, and high-quality application and content services: among them, the seven major boutique cloud services including Huawei Themes, Magazine Lock Screen, Basic Cloud Services, Skylink, Huawei Pay, Huawei AppGallery, and Huawei Video are at the global leading level in terms of product capabilities, coverage, and business scale.

Huawei Themes has covered more than 200 countries and regions around the world, with a total of 130 million users worldwide. In 2016, the theme was downloaded 390 million times worldwide and has achieved localized operation. The industry's first Huawei Magazine lock screen has 2 billion exposures per day, 50 million daily active users, and ***. Basic cloud services connect more than 200 million Huawei phones around the world, providing synchronization, storage, and management of personal data. Data shows that users add more than 41 million photos and more than 20 million contacts per day in cloud storage, with a storage capacity of more than 316PB. Skylink services have covered 80 countries and regions around the world, aggregating resources from more than 60 operators, and have provided SIM-free overseas Internet access services for more than 6 million Huawei high-end mobile phone users. Huawei Pay is China's first mobile card swiping service that supports both bank cards and bus cards. It has achieved safe and fast payment with 39 bank cards and public transportation swiping in 6 regions.

Huawei AppGallery covers users in 95 countries and regions including China, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Latin America. In 2016, the number of downloads reached 45 billion, making it the world's top three app markets. Huawei Video solves the three major pain points of rough video quality, playback jams, and poor color/contrast/clarity under limited network speeds through WiseVideo Huawei encoding technology, WiseVideo dynamic bitrate technology, and WiseVideo image quality enhancement technology; in terms of content, it has a 35,000-hour ad-free high-definition film library, and the selected content is all high-quality film sources with medium and high ratings on IMDB and Douban.

Global layout and win-win ecology

In terms of terminal digital cloud ecosystem construction, Huawei Consumer Cloud Service provides global business capabilities for developers and is committed to building an open and win-win ecosystem. By the end of 2016, the number of Huawei registered developers exceeded 220,000, a year-on-year increase of 70%. Partners received more than US$400 million in revenue from Huawei, with theme developers' revenue increasing by 251% and game developers' revenue increasing by 200%.

Huawei Consumer Cloud Service has three regional centers and 15 data centers deployed globally, providing services in more than 200 countries and regions. This means that Huawei Consumer Cloud Service has passed strict audits in different countries and regions around the world in terms of security, privacy data management, and local laws and regulations. Developers can rely on the global capabilities of Huawei's open platform to provide services to users around the world.

In 2017, Huawei Consumer Cloud Service continued to open up its cloud capabilities, following the regions where Huawei terminal users are located, and worked with partners to provide valuable digital cloud services to global users. While building a cloud service ecosystem for the sustainable development of Huawei terminal products, it also promoted and supported the healthy development of the entire industry!