The Huawei Technologies, headquartered in China's southern Shenzhen city, unveiled a 7-inch Android-based tablet computer in Singapore yesterday, throwing itself into a market competition with Apple and Samsung.
The Chinese top technology company said it is developing a larger 10-inch tablet PC, too.
And, Victor Xu, the chief market officer of Huawei Device, said that his company plans to be among the top global five handset producers within three years, a market that is now dominated by Nokia, Apple and Samsung.
"We are also developing a 10-inch tablet...We hope to launch it this year," Xu told Reuters in an interview. However, he declined to reveal the price of the newly introduced 7-inch tablet, the MediaPad.
The company, the world's second-biggest supplier of telecommunications equipment behind Ericsson, has not specified any sales target for the MediaPad which will be put on sale in the third quarter this year.
It said the MediaPad will run on the Android operating system from Google Inc and use a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm. It will also come with pre-installed applications such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a Reuter report on Monday.
The firm had said earlier it expects revenue to reach the $100 billion mark in a decade, driven by sales of telecom devices and mobile smart-phones.
By People's Daily Online
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The Chinese top technology company said it is developing a larger 10-inch tablet PC, too.
And, Victor Xu, the chief market officer of Huawei Device, said that his company plans to be among the top global five handset producers within three years, a market that is now dominated by Nokia, Apple and Samsung.
"We are also developing a 10-inch tablet...We hope to launch it this year," Xu told Reuters in an interview. However, he declined to reveal the price of the newly introduced 7-inch tablet, the MediaPad.
The company, the world's second-biggest supplier of telecommunications equipment behind Ericsson, has not specified any sales target for the MediaPad which will be put on sale in the third quarter this year.
It said the MediaPad will run on the Android operating system from Google Inc and use a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm. It will also come with pre-installed applications such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a Reuter report on Monday.
The firm had said earlier it expects revenue to reach the $100 billion mark in a decade, driven by sales of telecom devices and mobile smart-phones.
By People's Daily Online
Weekly review
