Samsung can, so can Huawei

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China's Huawei claims world's fastest smartphone



Huawei's Consumer Business Group CEO Richard Yu presents his company's new smartphone, Ascend P2, in Barcelona on February 24, 2013. (AFP/Josep Lago)


BARCELONA: China's Huawei, the number three smartphone maker behind giants Samsung and Apple, unveiled Sunday a new mobile, the Ascend P2, which it claims is the fastest in the world.

Sharp-cornered and thinner than a pencil at 8.4 mm, the company said it can achieve speeds of 150 Mbps, fast enough to download a two-hour high-definition movie in less than five minutes.

The mobile, which has a 4.7-inch, high definition screen, has a powerful 1.5 GHz quad-core processor and is able to use the fourth-generation high speed mobile networks being rolled out worldwide.

Unveiling the device on the eve of the opening Monday of the four-day Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the company said it was "the world's fastest smartphone," smashing all previous records.

Huawei said its phone surpassed top speeds of 100 Mbps for the fourth-generation network ready versions of Apple's flagship iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy SIII.

The Ascend P2 will launch in France through Orange in June and is also expected to be available worldwide during the second quarter of 2013, it said.

"Ascend P2 downloads HD movies in minutes, and loads online videos, web pages, songs or e-Books in seconds," Huawei said in a company statement issued at the launch.

The phone, which includes a 13 megapixel camera, is the latest shot in Huawei's battle against the fast-growing market's titans Samsung and Apple.

Samsung and Apple accounted for more than half of all smartphone sales in the final quarter of 2012 -- 29.0 per cent for Samsung and 22.1 per cent for Apple -- according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Behind Samsung and Apple, however, Chinese firms held the third, fourth and fifth spots -- with 5.3 per cent for Huawei, 4.7 per cent for ZTE and 4.4 per cent for Lenovo.

- AFP/jc

 

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Firefox smartphone system challenges Android, iOS



People wait to attend the press conference of Mozilla's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in Barcelona on February 24, 2013. (AFP/Josep Lago)


BARCELONA: Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in mid-2013 its widely anticipated Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android.

Mozilla, which campaigns for open development of the online world, showed off the first commercial version of the Firefox OS on the eve of the opening of the world's biggest mobile fair in Barcelona, Spain.

Smartphones equipped with Firefox OS look familiar to those on other systems, with an array of apps, or application programmes, to be made available on an online store, and a mapping programme developed by Nokia.

"With the support of our vibrant community and dedicated partners, our goal is to level the playing field and usher in an explosion of content and services that will meet the diverse needs of the next two billion people online," said Mozilla chief executive Gary Kovacs.

Mozilla, which aims to take third place behind Android and iOS, said it had already lured 17 operators including Sprint, China Unicom, KDDI, Singtel,Telefonica, Telenor and Deutsche Telecom.

The foundation said it was working with handset manufacturers South Korea's LG and China's TCL and ZTE on Firefox OS-run devices, with China's Huawei to follow later in the year.

All the smartphones would be run with Qualcomm Snapdragon application processors, which use an architecture licensed by Cambridge, England-based ARM.

They will be available from the northern hemisphere summer, with the first devices arriving in Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela. Other markets are to be announced soon, Mozilla said.

Google and Apple's operating systems combined now control more than 90 per cent of the smartphone market.

Google's Android ran 69 per cent of all handsets sold last year and Apple's iOS 22 per cent, said a study by independent analytical house Canalys.

Analysts say the two leaders will still dominate the market in 2013 although there could be room for a third player.

There are several operating systems vying for that number-three spot, however, including Microsoft's Windows Phone, Blackberry, Firefox and Samsung's open-source project Tizen.

Blackberry, formerly RIM, announced last month its BB10 operating system as it sought to regain its glory days with a new smartphone, the Blackberry Z10.

RIM had tried to escape its niche business market several years ago but could not resist the iPhone, said research house booz&co analyst Mohssen Toumi, who gave the firm little chance of success now, either.

"Windows Phone has a real chance via the business market because it is made for work as much as for leisure," he said.

Operators, too, are keen to break the operating system duopoly of Apple and Google, said Ian Fogg, senior mobile analyst at research house IHS.

Some Asian handset makers such as China's Huawei and ZTE or global group's like Spain's Telefonica could be interested in using Firefox OS to bring out products for developing countries, said Thomas Husson, analyst at Forrester Research.

But "for a third ecosystem to really hatch, you need to have partnerships with all the players, and the operators alone are not enough. You also need the manufacturers and all the third-parties: developers, brands, content suppliers, and media," he added.
The support of app developers was the most important and toughest to obtain.

"Developers, which are often small operations, will not want to spend their time developing and supporting applications on several platforms," said Toumi, especially if one of them has only a small share of the market.

- AFP/jc

 

[singveld]

prc phone, i will never buy them.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

prc phone, i will never buy them.

But iPhones all made in China. So you are actually buying a PRC phone.

 

[laksaboy]

Huawei has been doing lots of good in-house R&D for networking solutions.

Nokia used to do that until Stephen Elop the Microsoft stooge fucked up Nokia Siemens Network.

 

[sleaguepunter]

someone i know use a chinese copy of the iphone. he very please with it, he said function about the same as iphone5 but at faction of the price. coming from a ex iphone user, i had no reason to doubt him. furthermore he added iphone model last atmost 1 year. so it cheaper to get a cheap copy and change to a new copy model in a year. make perfect sense.

 

[laksaboy]

Huawei ad is so sexy.

[video=youtube;mVRKYqhbmhY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVRKYqhbmhY[/video]

 

[tonychat]

The design of the phone is like not sleek leh.. very chinky look.. samsung still the best..

 

[kongsimi]

dun worry stinktel will slow it down!!

Every tonne of porn you downloaded stinktel must pay to oberseas telecom provider.

 

[Cestbon]

150Mps for fuck. Service provider can even give average 10Mps.

 

[LordKrishna]

Always wonder in my meditation why smart phone makers, other than Apple and maybe Samsung, always like to launch phones or products when the product is ready for sale only 3 - 6 months later. Not plenty smart ah these people?

 

[streetcry]

[h=3][/h][h=3]Huawei Ascend D2[/h]



Huawei Ascend D2 ‘world’s most powerful smartphone‘ stated by Huawei. D2 comes with a 1.5GHz K3V2 quad core CPU from Huawei, as well as Android Jelly Bean 4.1 as the OS of choice. Device features a 5-inch FHD IPS+ 443 PPI Super Retina LCD display. With its 3000mAh battery and Huawei’s proprietary Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) battery efficiency technology, the Ascend D2 has a stand-by time of six days on WCDMA.
D2 features a 13MP BSI rear-facing camera with detail capturing technology and an ISO sensitivity level higher than other smartphones in this category. Weighing just 170g and measuring 9.9mm thin, its curved design fits comfortably in the hand. Available in pure white and crystal blue.
[h=3]Huawei Ascend Mate[/h]
Huawei announced the new Ascend Mate an Android device. Huawei is calling the Ascend Mate “smartphone with the world’s largest screen. The phone comes with a full 6.1-inch HD display, the first phone screen ever to cross the 6.0-inch barrier. The device features an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with HDR, a 1.5-GHz quad-core processor, a huge 4050-mAH battery and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

 

[laksaboy]

150Mps for fuck. Service provider can even give average 10Mps.

The world is bigger than Singapore. Don't blame the phone, blame the fucked up telcos in Singapore.

 

[bushtucker]

if it is 30-40% cheaper than samsung, why not?

samsung is getting as pricey as apple.

 

[kongsimi]

Stinktel used to provide this super fast broadband internet call ATM.

can simultaneously download gigabytes of movies without slowing down.

they took out the technology because it is taking too much bandwidth.

 

[laksaboy]

Wow, how inspirational from Huawei.

[video=youtube;ld4-SgX-D-o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld4-SgX-D-o[/video]

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

Will explode halfway using it or not?

 

[Radeon]

someone i know use a chinese copy of the iphone. he very please with it, he said function about the same as iphone5 but at faction of the price.

Good for him. I don't think PRC stuff can be that bad.

 

[blackmondy]

Huawei has been doing lots of good in-house R&D for networking solutions.

Nokia used to do that until Stephen Elop the Microsoft stooge fucked up Nokia Siemens Network.

Not many knows Huawei does storage. While in my ex-tiong company, we had to sell broadcast solutions using their storage system. It was only then that I knew how diversified Huawei was.

 

[tonychat]

Wow, how inspirational from Huawei.

[video=youtube;ld4-SgX-D-o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld4-SgX-D-o[/video]

possibilities favors the FEARLESS....


this one sinkie must learn, so those keep on complaining in this forum are the totally ball-less one... no possibilities for them..