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Tuesday 15 November 2011

Huawei Launches MediaPad and Ideos X3 & Sonic Phones

Telecommunications equipment maker Huawei has launched three new Android devices in India, its previously announced 7-inch tablet MediaPad to Rs. 28 359, and two "cloud-phones", the Gingerbread-based IDEOS X3 and Sonic, for Rs. 10229 and Rs. 9210, respectively. Exact availability is yet to be revealed.

The Huawei MediaPad launched a while back that the world's first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet running Android 3.2 on a dual-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm chipset. For more information about MediaPad specifications, see our previous coverage.

The company, which has just 6-7 units in its portfolio, which now also looking to expand its product line aggressively in the coming months.


Huawei launched its shares earlier this year and in December-end, they should have 10-odd units. India is a very important market for them and they are aggressively expanding our product range in India. Next year the plan is to have 20-30 units in our portfolio. The company also wants to strengthen its retail presence and expects to have 10,000 stores in over 50 cities.

Making money on the growing tablet PC market in India, launched the Huawei MediaPad, a seven-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb-based tablet. Powered by Qualcomm's dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, has MediaPad a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera and 5MP camera. It is priced at Rs 28359.


Experts have forecast that the market for Indian Tablet PC, which is smaller in size and have PC-like functionality that will grow to one million units in volume over the next 12 months. The Indian market is flooded with tablets and consumers have to choose Tablet PCs in different price ranges.

Huawei has also launched two handsets based on Cloud + service where users will get 16 GB of disk storage cloud.

Huawei calls the 3.2-inch IDEO X3 and 3.5-inch Sonic cloud phones because of Cloud + serves Chinese telecommunications giant will launch them into the country. According to Anand Narang include + MD features Huawei devices Cloud 16 GB of cloud storage, an integrated social phonebook, richer messaging and phone search services. Both devices also come with different social networks and instant messaging applications such as Twitter, Facebook, etc.


Despite running Android 2.3 Gingerbread out of the box, as well as its cloud storage capabilities, the Huawei IDEO X3 and Sonic still low-end budget units on the inside - with 600 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 3.2 Megapixel cameras and low resolution (320x480 pixels). The two devices will surely face stiff competition out there. The units can be removed by an operator Aircel bundle with 3 GB of free downloads.
For more specifications and features of the devices, check the table below.




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