Huawei and ZTE Make Great Strides

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Daniel Thomas and Paul Taylor, Huawei Lets Loose Its Ambition; Telecoms; News analysis; Chinese groups can no longer be written off as copycats. Financial Times, Mar 1, 2012.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/208bbd ... 7-00144feabdc0.html

Quote:

"Huawei’s Ascend 48 HD smartphone, launched here [Barcelona], is one of the first handsets to feature the latest version of the Android operating system and used a powerful quad core microprocessor – developed in-house.

"It is no wonder, as one industry analyst says, that rival groups in Europe are terrified of the competition coming from China. One senior executive says the quality of Huawei’s products has improved markedly in the past few years and it can no longer be written off as a cheap copycat.

"Huawei and ZTE have yet to report 2011 figures but Mr Wei [Zaisheng, chief financial officer of ZTE] said ZTE had grown at twice the speed of the industry last year. He pointed to analyst estimates of a 33.4 per cent increase in revenue in the first three quarters, although declined to give revenue numbers that were still being audited.

My comment:
(a) Despite the title, the report is about BOTH Huawei and ZTE.
(b) Reporting from Barcelona.
(c) The report is translated.

丹尼尔•托马斯 , 保罗•泰勒, 分析：华为技高一筹. FT Chinese, Mar 2, 2012 (available now).
http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001043446
(d) The report talks about Huawei Ascend 48 HD smartphone. However, I fail find it in the web, not even in Huawei's website.

15 Smart Phones. Huawei, as of today.
http://www.huaweidevice.com/worl ... 001&treeId=3745

So I do not know specifications of that particular smartphone.