Huawei's big push into tablets and smartphones

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Huawei Technologies is making an aggressive push into the consumer electronics space, marketing its new smartphones and tablet PCs in glitzy Beijing malls and even a Milan fashion show as it seeks to emerge from decades of obscurity.

Huawei is betting on Google Inc's Android operating system for its smartphones, taking aim at grabbing market share from Apple's iPhone and Samsung Electronics' Galaxy in a move that is pushing the private company to open its once closed doors to the outside technology world.

After repeated requests, Huawei recently granted rare access to a research & development center in Shenzhen, putting on display its new approach and its entry into the consumer space.

The building is dotted with evidence of Huawei's drive for innovation.

On one floor, the R&D team displayed an array of products still in the works - a 4G network card, a smartphone with a wireless charger and a snazzy smartphone with a see-through case.

Having built itself into the world's No. 2 network equipment provider, with plans to nearly quadruple revenues to US$100 billion in 10 years, analysts are banking that Huawei is up to its newest consumer market challenge.

"I cannot predict if Huawei has the makings to be Asia's next Samsung, but I would definitely not count it out," said Matt Walker, principal analyst at research firm Ovum.

Huawei has surpassed the likes of Alcatel Lucent and Nokia Siemens Networks among gear makers. It now hopes to double its cell phone shipments to 60 million this year, including 15 million smartphones.

"We hope to become the world's No. 3 in cell phone shipments and the world's No. 5 in terms of revenues within five years," Victor Xu, chief marketing officer of Huawei Devices, said as he played around with a Huawei IDEOS smartphone.

Under Huawei's previous direction, consumers weren't "able to see our brand on the things we make," Xu added, occasionally slipping into his pocket to grab his personal phone - an iPhone - when it rang. "But now we're changing our strategy."

The change in strategy was evident when Huawei allowed Reuters exclusive access to its R&D center in Shenzhen recently.

On the walls along the corridor are rows of paper with hand-drawn sketches of cell phone and tablet PC designs. Just around the corner is an unusual 3D printer that spews out plaster-like handset models for the R&D staff to have a look-and-feel of their designs.

Visitors and staff at the center are barred from carrying cameras and flash memory cards to ensure new designs are kept under wraps.

"I've noticed a lot of interesting innovations going on in Huawei," said Hagen Fendler, chief design director of handsets, who moved from Germany last year to join Huawei after working for Siemens.

"Twenty years ago, virtually no one has heard of Korea's LG Electronics in Europe, but now it's a big brand. I think Huawei will be able to achieve the same in China," said Fendler, one of many foreign R&D staff Huawei has hired globally to strengthen its technology and designs.

While Huawei's network equipment has had success globally, one destination remains elusive - the United States. It hopes smartphones and tablet PCs will help it capture that market.

With its network gear business plateauing in some markets, such as China, Huawei hopes to cash in on fast-growing mobile devices. Huawei's smartphones have been sold in markets from Australia to Kenya.

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