Huawei launches new tablet, laptop in flagship phone hiatus

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Huawei launches new tablet, laptop in flagship phone hiatus

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Huawei will be launching the P20 smartphone on March 27 instead

BARCELONA, Spain – China’s Huawei launched a new laptop and tablet on Sunday as it seeks to cement its place among the world’s three biggest electronic device manufacturers.

The laptop, the Matebook X Pro, and the tablet, the MediaPad M5, were presented on the eve of the opening of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona – the scene of previous major Huawei launches.

But this year the company will instead present its new flagship smartphone – the P20 – on March 27 in Paris, in what is seen as a bid not to be eclipsed by Samsung’s launch of its new top end phone at MWC. 

“By launching the new P20 smartphones only a month later in Paris, Huawei will be able to fine tune its marketing message based on how the new Samsung S9 devices are perceived by consumers,” said Forrester analyst Thomas Husson.

MATEBOOK. Huawei CEO Richard Yu gives a press conference to present the new Huawei MateBook X pro laptop on February 25, 2018 in Barcelona, on the eve of the inauguration of the Mobile World Congress (MWC).
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Both the new Huawei laptop and tablet feature long lasting batteries and quicker charge times and are available in grey and silver.

The laptop’s power button doubles as a fingerprint scanner, which Huawei says will start and securely log into Windows in under eight seconds.

Huawei also unveiled what it said is the world’s first commercial chipset that meets the standards of the super-fast 5G wireless networks which are poised to start being rolled out.

The company said the chipset can hit download speeds of 2.3 gigabits per second, significantly faster than speeds reached in current 4G networks.

Huawei remained the world’s third biggest seller of smartphones in 2017, behind Samsung and Apple.

It boasted a 10.4% market share, up from 9.5%, according to research firm IDC. 

Samsung had a 21.6% share while Apple held 14.7%. – Rappler.com

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