BARCELONA: China's Huawei, the number three smartphone maker behind giants
Samsung and Apple, unveiled Sunday a new mobile, the Ascend P2, which it claims is the
fastest in the world.
Sharp-cornered and thinner than a pencil at 8.4 mm, the company said it can achieve
speeds of 150 Mbps, fast enough to download a two-hour high-definition movie in less than five
minutes.
The mobile, which has a 4.7-inch, high definition screen, has a powerful 1.5 GHz quad-core
processor and is able to use the fourth-generation high speed mobile networks being rolled out
worldwide.
Unveiling the device on the eve of the opening Monday of the four-day Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the company said it was "the world's fastest smartphone,"
smashing all previous records.
Huawei said its phone surpassed top speeds of 100 Mbps for the fourth-generation network
ready versions of Apple's flagship iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy SIII.
The Ascend P2 will launch in France through Orange in June and is also expected to be
available worldwide during the second quarter of 2013, it said.
"Ascend P2 downloads HD movies in minutes, and loads online videos, web pages, songs
or e-Books in seconds," Huawei said in a company statement issued at the launch.
The phone, which includes a 13 megapixel camera, is the latest shot in Huawei's battle
gainst the fast-growing market's titans Samsung and Apple.
Samsung and Apple accounted for more than half of all smartphone sales in the final quarter
of 2012 -- 29.0 per cent for Samsung and 22.1 per cent for Apple -- according to research firm
Strategy Analytics.
Behind Samsung and Apple, however, Chinese firms held the third, fourth and fifth spots --
with 5.3 per cent for Huawei, 4.7 per cent for ZTE and 4.4 per cent for Lenovo.
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