Your emails: Should Huawei be in our 5G network?

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A delayed Friday emails this week as Nick was off this morning, but here we go:

Make sure to check back every Friday lunchtime for our letters to the editor – and get involved by sending your emails to editor@trustedreviews.com. We’ll feature the best on this very page at the end of each week, with Nick’s and the team’s replies.

Emoji joy

I enjoyed reading the news about the new emojis for 2020 and I’m happy to know that much other wildlife like polar bears, black cats, beavers, seals and even the extinct woolly mammoth, and the dodo are listed there.

But disappointingly, they again missed the most beautiful and endangered mammal of the earth, the red panda. This is very unfair to the fans of the red panda around the world and the creature is already facing huge pressure for its survival. It would be nice if you could ask the creator of the emojis to include red panda in their 2020 list. 

— Sonam

Sadly, at the rate we’re making animals go extinct, we’d need new emojis every 3 days. But we’re happy to publish your note if it helps raise awareness.

Don’t push me

Could you please tell me how I can stop ‘news flashes’ from Trusted Reviews appearing on my PC. These were not requested and there seems to be no opt out.

— Peter Randall

You will have opted in at some point when visiting the site, opting in when you didn’t mean to is unfortunately quite easy to do. However it’s easy to opt back out again – just follow the instructions at the link here, depending on which device you are using.

Opting out of a push notification

The new version of Chrome, due on 4th February, removes push notifications so chances are you won’t be getting our missives for much longer anyway.

The Huawei decision

I’ve read that the Huawei 5G network hardware is years ahead of Nokia’s and the other movers in the market.

It would be a simple decision to make: pick Huawei if the quality of the tech was the only factor.

But the Chinese government’s insistence that every Chinese owned company must inform their secret services of all of Huawei’s activities was a bold move.

I think America is making the correct choice by excluding Huawei. Letting  your trillion dollar war machine have a back door to the centre of the Chinese government is insane. I feel that the UK should have taken that very same approach. Forget about the threat of China not trading with us.

They would of course made an example of us at the start, that wouldn’t last long though. I believe that the UK government is trying to please too many governments and may end up annoying them all.

— Mr A.T.P.C  

It’s a fair argument, although whether China is really telling Huawei to spy on everyone is unconfirmed. But we shouldn’t lose sight of the reason Huawei is at the centre of this – it’s because its 5G technology and pricing is streets ahead of anyone else’s.

According to TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher, the Chinese government will fund Huawei’s R&D to the tune of $20 billion/year, which is considerably more than any Western infrastructure company has invested. Perhaps the real problem is China is prepared to spend to build the future it wants, and Western countries aren’t.

Stadia tried and tested

Hello I read your review on Google Stadia, I would say you guys did a very good job. I do have to commend you on trying the product, other review websites did not even try it. Google Stadia seems very promising, but it has too many problems at the moment.

— Joseph

Indeed. We’re not sure something like Stadia can be realistically viable anyway given the current state of the art. It does have a slight aroma of Google’s next cancelled product about it.

Contact us or not

I’ll point out how frustrating it was to click the “contact us” link at the bottom of your page, because your page is basically bottomless. As soon as I see the bottom stuff like “contact us” and “terms of service”, more lame stuff like “Sit down before you see her now” inserts itself into the page and pushes the bottom down.

Obviously I successfully managed to click the “contact us” link, or you wouldn’t be reading this, but it was like playing a video game except that it wasn’t much fun. If you can’t do anything about the infinite page length, perhaps you can move that bottom stuff to the top or the side.

— Bob

You’ll hear no disagreement from us in the office, but unfortunately this kind of thing is the price we have to pay for being able to keep the lights on. Our apologies.

That’s it for another week. Thanks again to all the people who emailed in, and keep emailing in to continue the conversation.

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