Huawei began selling its latest line of flagship smartphones, the Pura 70, on April 18, exactly 12 years after its first P series was released. (Screen shot from Huawei Weibo site)

CHENG TING-FANG and LAULY LI, Nikkei tech corespondents |

TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies began selling its latest premium smartphones in China on Thursday — exactly 12 years after launching its flagship phone series — as the company continues to mount a comeback in the domestic device market.

The Pura 70 Ultra and Pura 70 Pro are Huawei’s first smartphones incorporating a large language model, its self-developed Pangu LLM, the company said. The handsets run on HarmonyOS, the operating system Huawei developed as a replacement for Google’s Android.

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