If you're worried about Huawei Phones, don't use ones with their EMUI ROM. Considering the 6P has been developed and is sold by Google, I trust that it is as safe to use (if not safer) than most mainstream devices. It is beyond doubt that google's engineers and lawyers have checked everything before even partnering with Huawei, since discovering any backdoor would be a huge lawsuit on their own door.

I have a Huawei phone (Ascend P7), and I'm pretty happy with it.

If I were to be concerned, I'd be more worried about them fudging the performance data. As others posted, if you're worried about spying, don't own a mobile device.

I posted this before:

"I have a Huawei Ascend P7. It's miles better than my last phone (LG G2 mini). I find the build quality to be very good. I had it survive a very bad fall. The performance is decent, not as good as modern flagships, but an awesome price to performance ratio (I got it for 180 dollars, it goes for 250 unlocked these days). They did do a Volkswagen-style cheat on the FutureMark benchmark: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8403/examining-huaweis-benchma.... so yes, they might be on the "sketchy" camp. But I've found most of the premium stuff from China to be as good or better than equivalents from other countries, my girlfriend has a Lenovo phone and it's excellent too."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300656

> I don't know if this is even worth worrying about considering the baseband.

Yup. If you are worried at all, don't own a mobile device.

You can't do anything in case of an hardware backdoor but software backdoors are more likely than hw ones and you can prevent them using a trusted custom ROM.

You care about a given piece of hardware's status on backdoors, so that you can run Android and use Google services?

ayy