Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies has launch a cloud-computing mobile phone in an attempt to replicate its telecom equipments success in the smartphone market.
The "Vision" smartphone is are 9.9-mm thick and 121g and runs Google's Android 2.3. "We are striving to become one of the top three global brands for mobile phones by 2015," Huawei Device CEO Wan Biao said.
It comes with a 3.7-inch capacitive touchpanel, a five megapixel autofocus camera (with LED flash and 720p video recording), 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM 8255 processor and a 1,400mAh battery. It also uses storage in the cloud, reserving 160GBytes of storage for every Huawei cloud phone user, and it can wirelessly push applications, music, photos and documents to users' devices automatically.
With this it is aiming to be ahead of the combination of an iPhone with Apple's iCloud service which will do the same kind of thing is not so tightly coupled.
"Obviously you have to retrieve the data from the web. On that, the US is much easier to do this. In emerging markets like China, it will probably be still some time away off," said Alvin Kwock, an analyst at JPMorgan in Hong Kong talking to Reuters
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