Huawei launches debut mobile devices

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:36 PM

The Huawei T-Mobile Pulse: Courtesy of Huawei DeviceChina's well-known networking and telecommunications equipment company, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, is getting a start in mobile devices, with a portfolio of gadgets ranging from cell phones to USB modems, wireless modems and data cards.
Established in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei, Huawei specializes in research and development (R&D), production and marketing of communications equipment, and in providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers.
I was recently invited by Huawei on my second trip to visit the company's headquarters in Longgang district in Shenzhen, Guangdong, along with two Indonesian journalists. Our questions and observations concentrated on the company's device portfolio, under a new division managed by Huawei Device (aka Huawei Communications), a subsidiary of Huawei Technologies.
Huawei Device provides a diverse range of end-user devices, including handsets (UMTS, GSM, CDMA,TD-SCDMA), mobile broadband devices (USB modems, wireless modems, data cards), home solutions (fixed wireless terminals, wireless gateways) and video conferencing products. Among the division's customers are T-Mobile, Vodafone, TATA, China Telecom, British Telecom and Telefonica.
Glory Cheung, spokesperson for Huawei Device, told us the new division is already on the right track. According to statistics that she showed us, in 2008 the division's sales revenue was US$4 billion and it shipped 80 million units. ABI Research revealed that, in the same year, Huawei's mobile broadband's global market share was more than 55 percent.
Huawei rocked the world when it showed its Android device at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. T-Mobile recently unveiled the "Huawei Android" T-Mobile Pulse, which will be launched in October 2009 and will cost *179.99 ($290) on a pay-as-you-go contract.
The Pulse provides one-touch access to the web, and comes pre-installed with some of the most popular services from Google as well as the Android Marketplace. The black polished chrome smartphone is powered by Qualcomm's MSM7200A chipset and weighs just 130 grams.
It features a trackball and a full touch-screen 3.5-inch HVGA display with auto-rotates. The Pulse also features a 3.2 megapixel, auto-focus camera, a 2 GB internal memory and a micro SD card slot. The handset also offers access to corporate email through the Road sync client.
I had this smartphone in my hand at P&T/Wireless & Nertwork Comm China 2009 in Beijing on Thursday and was impressed by its touchscreen capability and applications.
Meanwhile, in the mobile broadband area, Huawei recently announced that the company has now shipped more than 60 million mobile broadband units (including data cards, dongles and embedded modules), across more than 133 countries.
"This milestone highlights Huawei's deep understanding of the operator business," Cheung said.
In February 2008, Huawei launched the E510, the world's first terminal to support mobile TV services, and the D100, a router gadget. In June, Huawei launched the E180, the world's first slim mobile broadband terminal. This year, Huawei introduced the world's slimmest wireless modem, E5 and the E182E, the world's first HSPA+ mobile broadband.
Just like T-Mobile Pulse, Huawei has always delivered its handsets to the market by co-branding with operators (in Indonesia, with Bakrie Telecom for CDMA handsets and Telkomsel for mobile modems, for instance).
The next logical question is whether this Chinese private company will enter the consumer market by offering their handsets with the Huawei brand?
"No," Ross Gan, Huawei head of corporate communications, told The Jakarta Post. "Our vision is clear: having close partnerships with operators and creating value by increasing ARPU for operators through innovation."
Besides, Gan added, to enter the consumer market, Huawei would need large distribution channels and a strong brand for consumers' minds.
"If Huawei chose this track, it would be hard for us to compete with big brands like Nokia or Samsung," Gan said.
So, he added, "We don't want to sweat in those areas, so we will keep maintaining our co-branding strategy in delivering handsets as well as mobile broadband devices."
It's a good reason and makes good sense.
source:www.thejakartapost.com

RI to help integrate East Asia: Japan FM

Jakarta | Tue, 10/13/2009 9:13 PM | World

Japan will involve Indonesia in its bid to realize the East Asia Community that will bring it closer to its major rivals China and South Korea.

After a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda, visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Tokyo would like to discuss further the concept of the East Asia Community with Jakarta, which he said “has boasted mature democracy and firm economy in the recent years”.

“Indonesia is an important partner for Japan in effort to bring about integration in East Asia. Indonesia plays an important role in ASEAN. Japan would like to have a dialogue with Indonesia about the details of establishing the East Asian Community,” Okada said through an interpreter.

ASEAN leaders have managed to bring Japan, China and South Korea under one umbrella – the ASEAN+3 – after decades of prolonged historic hostilities among the three. The new concept of an East Asian Community, launched under the month-old government of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, has drawn mixed responses, with critics saying it would rival similar regional groupings such as ASEAN.

source:thejakartapost.com

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