Huawei, the china based telecom giant is being seen to diversify its business by entering into the SmartPhone Market.
Earlier the giant offered the cloud services in its phones for the Indian Users and this time it is planning to come up with the first 4G phone in India.
The company says that it was testing a 4G phone on the Airtel Network and is planning to launch it by December though the actual date of launch still depends upon the network service provider which has its 4G network already successfully running in Kolkata and Bangalore through USB dongles only.
Victor Shanxin,president for huawei devices in India said in a report that "we are ready with our phone(Ascend P1 LTE) and if the operator is ready,we will surely launch the phone by December this year."Although price of the phone is not revealed yet.
He also added "We were doing most of our business through tie-ups with operators until now but now we are planning to come up with an open market strategy and we are hoping to acquire atleast 5% share in Indian market with the SmartPhones holding the maximum share".
He said " We are working on building up the supply network so that the people can buy our products very easily".
Seems like Huawei is focussing on the quality rather than the price this time.Although Chinese companies are famous for their cheap products,but when asked,Shanxin said "Yes we will sell affordable products,but we want to focus on quality."
This criticization directly pointed toward the local phone makers who according to Shanxin want to make the products available at the lowest possible price.But he says that the trend of the market has changed.Now,people are even ready to spend some extra pennies if they are getting better quality products.
Till then,all we can do is to trust the words of Shanxin and wait for the new 4G experience about to come in Indian market.Also hoping that the product will be available at the affordable prices.