Huawei Technologies is delaying the release of its foldable smartphone from June to September, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Huawei's reason for postponing the sale of its $2,600 Mate X smartphone is to improve the quality of the folding screen, the phone’s technical component, according to the newspaper.
On May 15, the Trump administration added Huawei to a list of companies that U.S. firms can no longer trade with unless they have a license. The "entity list" bans the company from acquiring technology from U.S. firms without government approval.
As a result, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s Google also suspended licensing of Android software to Huawei’s smartphones.
Huawei remains in discussions over whether the “Mate X” will launch with a license from Google that allows the device to run the U.S. company’s suite of Android apps, the Journal said.
The Mate X was unveiled at a tech conference in February, three months before the U.S. blacklisting.
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