Huawei working overtime to meet ‘excessive’ demand for Mate 70 smartphones

Huawei’s supply chain team is working overtime to meet demand for its new Mate 70 smartphones as supplies they had initially prepared were insufficient, an executive told the state-owned Securities Times newspaper on Thursday.

He Gang, Huawei’s consumer business group CEO, said reservations for the phone, which do not require customers to put down a deposit, had exceeded 6.7 million so far and described demand for it as “excessive”.