Huawei Rolls Outs Economic Android Phones In India
Telecom network solutions company Huawei Technologies has rolled out four new cellular phones, comprising two android devices, U8300 and U8500, in India.
Available at a price of Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000, the newly launched handsets will be hit markets on August 1, 2010.
The new set of handsets, Android and Hangout, make use of high-tech chipset solutions from Qualcomm.
Targeted at youth market, U8300 is a QWERTY Android phone that come packed with social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter together with a 3.2 mega pixel camera.
U8500 is an all touchscreen phone, which features Wi-Fi and speedy downlink packet access, a superior third generation protocol for mobile telephone data transmission.
Some of the amazing features of Hangout series include a full range of stylish and feature-rich devices on GSM, CDMA and UMTS technologies and targets mid and higher segment of consumers.
Aimed at young professionals, U9130 and C5600 models will be available at a price between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000. Mr. Victor Xu, chief marketing officer, Huawei Device, stated, "With the Indian telecom industry growing at the rate of 20 million subscribers each month, and poised to reach 1 billion by 2015, Huawei sees traction in the Indian telecom device segment."
The company also disclosed the launch of its Rs 8,000 smartphone during Diwali. (With Inputs from Agencies)