Information and communications technology solutions provider Huawei, has launched two high end smart devices into the Kenyan market. The company today launched the Huawei Honor Smartphone and the Huawei Media Pad tablet.
The Huawei Honor smartphone, which will be retailing at KES 31,999, comes with an Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.The full touch screen smart phone offers comes with up to 650 hours standby time, 9 hours talk time and has a power saving model that allows for 35% more power saving. Other features include a 4.0 inch LCD touch screen, 2G and 3G network.
“Kenya is now amongst the most technologically advanced African markets and we have seen an uptake in smart phone usage in the country. With Huawei Honor, we aim to increase the variety of choice Kenyans can make in the smart phone category based on the user experience that they want.” said Huawei Kenya Office CEO Mr. Wind Li
The Huawei MediaPad Tablet will retail at KES 34,999. A first from Huawei Technologies in the Kenyan market, the Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet offers up to 6 hours of user time, a 7 inch high definition LCD multi touch screen, 1.3 MP fixed focus camera and a rear-facing 5MP auto-focus HD camera.
“Kenyan people are now aware of technology and have responded very well to our IDEOS Smartphones. Being the first home device to be launched in the Kenyan market, we are confident that its uptake will lead to the introduction of many more home device solutions”, said Mr. Wind Li. “We are therefore spreading our wings to target the home device market that is growing,” he added.
Despite competition from major players like Samsung and Nokia, Huawei Devices have cut a unique niche in the mobile device market as a result of favorable pricing. This has been evident in the sale of 210,000 IDEOS U8150; a milestone that led to the launch of IDEOS Ascend Y100 now retailing at KES 8,499, two weeks ago. The two devices will be retailing at Safaricom retail stores and come with a massive 1.5 GB of Data pre-bundled at no extra cost.