Breaking into North American Market: T-Mobile to Launch Chinese Huawei’s Android Phone in Q3, 2009

April 6, 2009

A recent post by FierceWireless reports Huawei and T-Mobile are teaming up to bring Hauwei’s Android-powered, touchscreen phone to market in the third quarter of 2009. Huawei is developing Symbian handset models supporting HSDPA, EV-DO and TD-SCDMA technologies and is predicting this expansion in both the smartphone market and North America to bring Huawei 29% growth in the next year.

The Chinese equipment maker accounted contract sales in 2008 of $23.3 billion and expects a rise to $30 billion in 2009. FierceWireless declares this bullish 28.8% increase prediction may be based on the fact that China awarded 3G CDMA technology licenses to the country’s largest mobile operators.

Huawei’s Android touchphone was to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress held in February at Barcelona, and the announcements were made, but only a non-working prototype was on display. Engadget.com reveals the phone as “iPhone-esque, and almost seems too button scarce to work with traditional Android interface.” According to Engadget.com, Huawei is developing its own custom interface for the device.

This is T-Mobile’s second attempt to trump the Apple iPhone. The first was the Google Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. What’s all the hype about Android? The T-Mobile G1 features a lovely touchscreen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Instant access to Google applications including: web search, Gmail, Maps, Talk, YouTube and more. Google boasts real-time syncing so that any contact, email or calendar event input on the phone is automatically backed up on Gmail, and vice-versa.

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