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this episode of android weekly is brought to you by FreshBooks so you may have heard the rumor that hallway and Google might partner up to produce the next Nexus device but that's not the half of it you see not only can Huawei help Google get deeper into China but Google can help Huawei get out first let's talk huawei the company has been growing steadily over the last few years and according to IDC hallway is now the fourth largest smartphone vendor in the world by market share securing 5.2 percent of shipments in the first three months of 2015 it was third for a while until rival lenovo acquired motorola Huawei has been doing well in China and in a number of other emerging markets around the world it's also been doing increasingly well in Europe but has yet to crack the lucrative US market it's one thing to sell quality hardware at knockdown prices and generate a lot of sales but quite another to sell premium devices with a huge markup and it's what most companies is fire to do and Huawei is no different the hallway watch was probably the biggest surprise of the Mobile World Congress few expected anything to get excited about much less the best-looking Android wear SmartWatch today since then we've been hearing persistent rumors about a hallway Nexus smartphone now if you listen carefully you'll hear geeks giving birth over that news if you look at the ebb and flow of Google's partnerships in the android seen you can generally see the motivation behind them HTC and Samsung produce smartphones capable of competing with the iphone LG and Asus offered lower prices without compromising a lot of quality could they work out some kind of deal to include Google services in Huawei's Chinese smartphones will huawei wield its influence with the chinese government to help hammer out some kind of deal with google maybe hallway will help Google to gain market share for a Chinese Play Store if Google does want to get into China then partnering with Huawei makes a lot of sense yeah so you remember that squabble between the Chinese government in Google a few years ago China wanted to restrict or control search results within Google products Google was not having that and so they pulled out or seriously limited their products within China now perhaps in exchange for hallways influence with the Chinese government Google may choose to help Huawei have more influence outside China ie the North American market savvy a partnership with Google could provide design insight marketing tips and be interpreted as a general thumbs up for the company that many Western consumers have little knowledge of Google could help open doors for huawei but it won't do so unless it stands to get something big and my friends nothing is bigger than the Chinese market ChaCha there is another potential attraction for Google with project Phi if Google was looking to scale the service up offering seamless transition between Wi-Fi and LTE it could do a lot worse than partnering with hallway it has the technology the expertise and the patents that Google may need it's not going to happen in the short term but in the future who knows now I was reading in the comments from yesterday's show where someone expressed the concern about using Chinese manufactured smartphones and possibly being monitored or watched or surveilled by the Chinese government through those Chinese manufactured phones and that is a significant fear for many people it's been covered in the media here in the West quite a few times and you know people are saying they're not going to buy Chinese manufacturer phones because of that fear I would argue that once they see decent quality phones that are significantly cheaper than a samsung flagship device or an iPhone those fears are going to quickly fade away I'm not saying that the Chinese government wouldn't do that god knows what governments do these days with surveillance and spying it's insane I'm just saying it's not going to be an issue when they can get 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