Huawei unveils three smartphones

Huawei Technologies Ghana has launched three smartphones and one tablet onto the Ghanaian market to deepen competition in the country’s smartphone market.

 The phones include Ascend P1, Huawei Honor, the dual-SIM Huawei Ascend G302D, and the 7-inch tablet, the Huawei MediaPad.

“Our smartphones are of the highest quality and comparable to any smartphone on the market; but ours are affordable and so we are targetting that in the next three years we will become one of the top-three brands on the market in Ghana,” said Head of Devices at Huawei Ghana, Yang Futu, at the launch in Accra.

 “A lot of Ghanaians still use 2G phones because the smartphones on the market are generally expensive and the smartphone market share still remains very small.

The smartphone market in Ghana still presents a huge potential for any new entrant in spite of the big brands like Samsung, Nokia, BlackBerry and Tecno already on the market,” he added.

Mr. Futu explained that all the devices, especially the Ascend P1, combine smart features and a sleek design, representing a significant milestone for Huawei devices in the country.

 “The Ascend P1 is the epitome of beauty colliding with brains -- proof that technology and good looks can go hand-in-hand,” he said.

Ascend P1 runs on Android 1.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, features a dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 processor and measures 7.69mm thin and 64.8 mm long, providing a very comfortable grip.

 The handset has a 4.3-inch super AMOLED 960 x 540 touch-screen with Corning® Gorilla® Glass, an 8-megapixel BSI rear-facing camera with AF and a Dual Flash, as well as Dolby Mobile 3.0 + 5.1 surround sound technology, and it provides a home theatre experience in the palm of the user’s hands. The retail price is GHȼ799. The Huawei Honor presents itself with an excellent HD display with 4.0 inch LCD.

It measures 10.9mm in thickness and just 122mm in length, offering it a compact design and very much desirable to handle. It also features a 1.4GHz processor and an 8-megapixel high definition camera, and it is a perfect smartphone with a 1900 mAh big capacity battery lifespan.

The Ascend G302D comes with dual-SIM functionality, giving the user options to make life more wonderful and simple. It offers a better view experience on a 4.0 inch IPS hard screen without extrusion deformation, and protects the eye.

The handset runs on a 1GHz high performance processor with a 5-megapixel plus 0.3MP Dual camera offering users an excellent entertainment experience. The retail price is GHȼ499 The Media Pad also presents itself as fast, very slim, light and clear.

It is the first tablet computer to support Android Ice Cream Sandwich and phone call function and comes with 7-inch screen 1280 x 800 WXGA IPS, leading as the industry’s clearest screen with an incredible 3D visual experience. The Media Pad has a powerful processing capacity of 1.2GHz dual core CPU. The retail price is GHȼ899.