Sharp-cornered and thinner than a pencil at 8.4mm, 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.
A man holds Huawei’s new Ascend P2 smartphone after a press conference in Barcelona on February 24, 2013. — AFP picThe 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. 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 against 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.
HUAWEI ASCEND P2 SPECIFICATIONS
- 1.5 GHz quad-core processor
- Android 4.1 operating system, with Huawei's own Emotion UI 1.5
- 8.4mm slim
- 4.7-inch IPS HD in-cell touch display, 1280x720 pixels
- Second-generation Corning® Gorilla® Glass
- 2420 mAh battery GHz quad-core processor
- 13 MP BSI rear camera
- 1.3 MP front-facing camera
- Dedicated shutter button
- NFC
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