{"id":89624,"date":"1999-12-31T00:41:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/huawei-secret-weapon-coming-to-oz\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:41:00","slug":"huawei-secret-weapon-coming-to-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/huawei-secret-weapon-coming-to-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei Secret Weapon Coming To OZ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look out Samsung: 2013 will be the year of the Chinese phone invasion, analysts warn.<BR>And now the first signs of it are emerging as Huawei, who this week invited media to view a &#8220;bigger multimedia experience&#8221; and view the next &#8220;handset&#8221; at an event at Paramount Pictures in Sydney. <BR><BR>The invite did not specify which &#8220;handset&#8221; it will be unleashing but it may well be the Ascend P2 &#8211; the &#8220;fastest smartphone in the world,&#8221;unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. <BR><BR>But its could also be the Chinese giant&#8217;s Ascend Mate &#8216;phablet&#8217; &#8211; a tablet\/phone combo but still a &#8220;handset&#8221;.<BR><BR><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 align=center><TBODY><TR><TD height=300 width=480><IMG border=0 src=\"http:\/\/v2news.smarthouse.com.au\/images\/shared\/20130411120128cedaa_480x300.jpg\"><\/TD><\/TR><TR><TD width=480>Hauwei secret phone could be this&#8230;.<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><BR><BR>The big rivals who will gain ground in 2013 &#8220;isn&#8217;t HTC, Sony or LG &#8211; it&#8217;s a flood of cheap Chinese handsets&#8221; UK based analyst Benedict Evans, from Enders Analysis told SmartHouse this week, something which other analysts have also been predicting.&nbsp; <BR><BR>Huawei and fellow China brand ZTE, managed to scrape in to the top 5 global smartphone makers in Q4 last, nabbing No. 3 and No. 5 spots respectively. <BR><BR>&#8220;Our ambition is to be the No. 3 phone maker in the world in the next three years,&#8221; Huawei Australia spokesperson Luke Coleman recently told SmartHouse<BR><BR>Huawei although still a relatively unheard of smartphone name in Oz where iPhones and Samsung Galaxys rule the roost, sell lower end pre-pay handsets only in the main telcos. <BR><BR><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 align=center><TBODY><TR><TD height=300 width=480><IMG border=0 src=\"http:\/\/v2news.smarthouse.com.au\/images\/shared\/20130411120239c5aa3_480x300.jpg\"><\/TD><\/TR><TR><TD width=480>Or This&#8230;<BR><BR>Image: Pocket-Lint<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>However, it hoping to change this a<A href=\"http:\/\/www.smarthouse.com.au\/home_office\/industry\/K5Q2N8N6.aspx\">nd has big plans for the Aussie market<\/A>&nbsp; including a massive marketing campaign, Raiders sponsorship and and hopes to expand its current chunk of retail partners beyond Dick Smith, JB HiFi, Woolworths, Coles, and Allphones &#8211; this year. <BR><BR><DIV style=page-break-before:always class=NFBreak contentEditable=false>&nbsp;<\/DIV>&#8220;Huawei has brought its own software innovations, including Magic Touch, Guiding Wizard, Smart Reading, and Floating Windows&#8221; analysts IDC recently noted, and has expanded marketshare in Q4 2012 by 89% by attacking the mass market with &#8216;simple and inexpensive&#8217; devices and high end with Ascend line. <BR><BR>The telecoms giant got a bad rap from the Aussie federal government having been banned from supplying services to $38bn NBN project, over fears of spying by the Chinese government, so will have its work cut out to gain major traction over short timeframe.<BR><BR>And that&#8217;s not to mention the fight it will have with smartphone kings Apple and Samsung. <BR><BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look out Samsung: 2013 will be the year of the Chinese phone invasion, analysts warn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Huawei Secret Weapon Coming To OZ? 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