Huawei Ascend P6 with 4.7-inch HDdisplay launched at Rs. 29,999

Huawei's new smartphone, the Ascend P6, has been launched for the Indian market, at Rs. 29,999. The device was listed online in the fourth week of October on an ecommerce website for a discounted price of Rs. 25,750. 

Huawei first unveiled the Ascend P6 back in June this year. The Huawei Ascend P6 is called the slimmest smartphone in the world by the company, and measures in at 6.2mm, while weighing 120 grams. The smartphone comes in Black, Pink and White colours. 

It features a 4.7-inch LCD display that has a resolution of 720x1280 pixels. It's powered by the company's in-house chipset, the Huawei K3V2 quad-core processor, clocked at 1.5GHz and coupled with 2GB of RAM. The Ascend P6 includes an 8-megapixel rear camera with a BSI sensor, capable of recording 1080p HD video, apart from a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. 

It runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and features Huawei's Emotion UI 1.6 OS layer on top. It offers 8GB of inbuilt storage expandable up to 32GB via microSD card and has a 2000 mAh battery. 

On Wednesday, two of Huawei's recently launched Android phablets , the Ascend G610 and Ascend G700 , also made it to the Indian market via an online retailer. The Huawei Ascend G610 and Huawei Ascend G700 have been listed at Infibeam for Rs. 12,499 and Rs. 16,500 respectively. 

The Chinese major had unveiled both the devices back in September this year, at an event. Huawei Ascend P6 key specifications 4.7-inch HD in-cell LCD screen with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels 1.5GHz quad-core Processor 2GB RAM 8GB Internal storage expandable via microSD card Dual-SIM with dual-standby support 8-megapixel rear camera 5-megapixel front facing camera 2000mAh battery Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with Emotion UI

LG's curved display smartphoneconfirmed for November launch

LG Electronics Inc's display unit said on Monday it will start mass production of curved smartphone displays as the South Korean phone maker plans to launch a smartphone with the new screens next month to catch bigger rival Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. 

Samsung said last month it would introduce a smartphone with a curved display in October as the world's top handset maker seeks to set the pace of hardware innovation amid slowing growth in the high-end smartphone market. 

Curved displays are in the early stages of development and allow bendable or foldable designs that could eventually allow mobile and wearable gadgets to take new forms that could radically change the high-end smartphone market.

LG Display Co Ltd said on Monday it has started production of a six-inch display curved top to bottom. LG Electronics plans to launch a smartphone with the curved display in November, a source familiar with the matter said. By contrast, Samsung's phone will have a display curved side to side, another source who has direct knowledge of the matter said. In January Samsung, which has taken over from Apple Inc as the global smartphone leader, showed off prototype products with a flexible screen and a display that extends from the side of a device. 

Technology firms have yet to figure out how to mass produce the parts cheaply and come up with display panels that can be thin and heat resistant. 

Curved displays are already commercially available in large-screen televisions. 
Samsung and LG Electronics started selling curved OLED TV sets this year priced at about $9,000.

Who will get the third place? LG,Sony, and Huawei duke it out

We are at a point in the mobile industry where the battle for the third place has become more interesting than the competition for the first position in the world market. 

Samsung and Apple are clearly ahead of the pack, and it’s hard to believe that anyone could disrupt their leadership in the next year or so. But behind Samsung and Apple, several players vie for the third place, and potentially, the chance to displace the leaders. 

These three players are LG, Huawei, and Sony. LG: 45 million These three companies all have ambitious plans for the rest of the year. LG puts all its hope in the G2, which will debut on August 7 at a New York event. The Korean company has already begun teasing the device, and I expect a big marketing push to drum up the interest for the G2. 

LG wants to sell 10 million units of the G2, which may not seem much compared to blockbusters like Samsung’s Galaxy S4, but is quite ambitious for a relatively small player like LG. With the G2 on the horizon, and encouraged by the success of the Optimus G and the G Pro, which propelled it on the third place in the first quarter of 2013, LG increased its internal target to 45 million smartphones this year, up 5 million from the initial goal. 

LG Optimus G Huawei: 60 million Huawei is just as ambitious – the Chinese telecom giant is a big player in its home market, which buoys its hopes for 2013 – Huawei wants to sell no fewer than 60 million smartphones. That’s a lofty goal, but if Huawei plays its cards right, it may profit from the LTE boom that’s expected to sweep China soon. 

In the international market, Huawei will continue to push attractive devices like the Ascend P6, the current world’s slimmest phone. Are Huawei’s goals realistic? Last year, the company had the same 60 million target, which proved unreachable. Could this year be different? Huawei Ascend Mate Sony: 42 million Sony may be the dark horse of the smartphone race right now. After a long period of lagging behind competitors in terms of specs, design, and software, in 2012 Sony has been making up the lost ground. 

The company told the Chinese press gathered for the launch of the Xperia Z Ultra that it plans to sell 42 million smartphones in 2013, to end the year on the third place. The Xperia Z and its siblings were moderately successful, while the Z Ultra shapes up to be a good competitor to the Samsung Note series. But probably Sony’s real hope is the i1, also known as Honami, which is rumored to be the first device created from scratch under the One Sony strategy. 

One Sony is the plan pushed by CEO Kaz Hirai to use the entire technological expertise of the Sony group in the making of each product. In other words, the i1 might benefit from Sony’s rich photography acumen and all the display expertise accumulated in years of making high-end television sets. 

Sony Xperia Z Disruption So, who will be in the third spot come December 31? Judging from estimates alone, Huawei, but history tells us that setting targets and actually meeting them are completely different things in the smartphone business. 

In the best scenario for the Android ecosystem, all three players will meet their targets and begin putting pressure on Apple and Samsung. Both juggernauts show signs of slowing down, and in times like this, upstarts have the best chance of disrupting the status quo. And, while, disruption may not be good for the incumbents, we, the consumers, can only gain from it.

Huawei wants to make a Google PlayEdition Ascend P6

Google Play Edition handsets are definitely the hop topic right now, and it appears that Huawei is the next company looking to join the ranks of Samsung and HTC in the GPE handset club. 

Speaking with Pocket-Lint earlier today, Kevin Ho, president of the handset product division at Huawei, stated that the company is collaborating with Google to produce a new edition of the Ascend P6 which will run stock Android. We are working with Google to analyse the possibility of bringing out a Huawei Ascend P6 with Google Edition, 
Ok, so nothing’s set in stone quite yet, but at least we officially know that talks are on-going. Interestingly though, this is directly counter to the company’s statements issued when it initially launched the Ascend P6 in London earlier this month. 

The company’s chairman, Richard Yu, insisted that Huawei’s Emotion UI was better was far better than stock Android, and that it offered “hundreds of improvements” over the default Android experience. So the real question is what is Huawei’s motive; a simple u-turn to capitalise on all the coverage that’s being given to these Google Play Edition handsets? Perhaps Richard Yu was overselling the benefits of Huawei’s Emotion UI when he said it would be better in touch with a user’s “emotions”. 

Needless to say, the PR on this one looks to be a little bit of a mess. But Huawei isn’t the only company which might be interested in joining the GPE club, both Sony and LG are considered likely candidates for another stock Android device. It will be interesting to see how many other manufacturers will announce Google Edition handsets in the near future.

You're Funny, Huawei

And you thought holding a Galaxy Note II to your ear made you look like a tool. Meet the Huawei MediaPad 7 Vogue, a tablet from a company that is clearly in touch with the needs of the common man. 

No word on pricing or availability, but the tablet’s recent spotting in the FCC’s database suggests that Huawei’s is expecting to sell this to douche nozzles abroad. 

SlashGear has the rest of the details if you must know the screen resolution or clock speed of the SoC. All jokes aside, Huawei shouldn’t be dismissed as an also-ran out of China. Despite leaving the U.S. market over government scrutiny, company is quickly becoming a global force in telecommunication. 

The company is a leader in its home of China, and was the third best selling smartphone vendor worldwide at the end of 2012. Still, there isn’t anybody on earth that’s going to want to hold a tablet to their ear.

Super-sharp displays on Android phones take on Apple

HTC, Sony, and Huawei are leading the charge
into large, full high-definition phone displays,
said DisplayMate Technologies. It's a market
Apple has yet to enter.
"With the iPhone 4 Retina display, Apple
pioneered the previous generation of
smartphone displays in 2010," wrote Raymond
Soneira in DisplayMate Technologies' Full HD
Flagship Smartphone Display Technology Shoot-
Out released on Tuesday.
"This time the pioneers are all Android devices,
with the iPhone still not even at the basic HD
resolution of 1,280x720," he said.
Apple has some catching up to do to achieve
"true Retina," as Soneira puts it.
As I have pointed out before, the
effective resolution of the human retina
is much higher than Apple's Retina
Display, and corresponds to somewhere
around 600 PPI [pixels per inch] at a 10
inch viewing distance, which is the limit
for the best human vision, around
20/10...On the other hand, very few
people have that level of 20/10 visual
acuity.
But lower visual acuity doesn't necessarily
mean you can't appreciate displays with very
high pixel density.
If you study and stare at the image on
the screen, move it closer, or move it
around, you'll be able to make out
considerably more fine image detail
because you are building an integrated
visual image map in the brain. So, when
you are looking at an image with finely
detailed graphics and small text, most
people with reasonably good vision will be
able to make out and appreciate the
extra sharpness and image detail if they
take the time to do so.
Super-sharp screens aren't the only criterion
for excellence, however. The iPhone 5's
display is still very competitive in other areas:
it has comparatively high peak brightness, high
contrast rating for high ambient light (bright
conditions), and low screen reflectance,
DisplayMate said.
The shoot-out itself compared the full HD
1,920x1,080 screens on the Huawei Ascend
D2, HTC One, and the Sony Xperia Z, with the
iPhone 5 serving as a yardstick of sorts.
The Ascend D2 came out on top.
"In our extensive side-by-side viewing test
comparisons the Ascend D2 was virtually
indistinguishable from the iPhone 5 and iPad
Retina Display, two of the most accurate and
high quality mobile displays we have ever
tested," DisplayMate said.
The Ascend D2 is Huawei's entry into the
premium smartphone market. "The Ascend D2
joins an elite group of smartphones with world
class displays. While Huawei is better known as
a manufacturer of low cost smartphones, their
Ascend D2 is aimed at the premium top tier, so
they managed to hit a home run with the
display the first time at bat."

Huawei introduces Ascend P6 as "world's slimmest smartphone"

Reuters,June 18, 2013China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, theAscend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology.

The company says the device, at 6.18mm thick, is the world's slimmest. Ithas a 5 megapixel front-facing camera, designed for taking "selfies", or pictures of the owner to be shared on social media networks.The company picked the launch date - 6/18 (June 18) - to tie in with the smartphone's dimensions.The launch, at an arts venue in North London, takes a cue from Apple and Samsung, both of which have made new product announcements at high profile events for a number of years.

Previously Huawei unveiled its handsets at industry trade shows like Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.Huawei, which also makes telecom networking gear, is looking to drive sales of its consumer devices, a sector in which it has only had its own brand for about three years.

The company was the fourth-largest maker of smartphones in the first quarter of 2013, trailing LG Electronics and the two dominant brands Apple and Samsung, according to analyst firmGartner. The top two sold more than100 million units between them, while LG sold 10 million and Huawei 9 million, most of which were in its native China.

The Ascend P6 uses Huawei's customised version of Google's Android operating system.Industry analyst Ben Wood at CCS Insight said that at the right price the Ascend P6 would attract buyers who had not considered Huawei before."Huawei P6 is darn thin," he tweeted. But he added that the device was not, at this stage, compatible with the high speed, nextgeneration 4G networks, which are being rolled out across the world.Carolina Milanesi at Gartner said she would have liked to see a more original design instead of something that tries to position thebrand as an alternative to Apple by going with a similar rounded metal design.

Overall it shows that Huawei is working towards their goal of becoming a top brand by 2015, she said.