BEIJING: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd unveiled yesterday a slate of new devices meant to showcase the Chinese company’s hardware technology, just days before Apple Inc releases its highly-anticipated iPhone 6 on September 9.
Huawei, which began as a telecom equipment company in 1987, has transformed itself in recent years into the world’s No. 3 smartphone maker behind Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple.
Huawei said yesterday it would release a limited edition of its high-end Ascend P7 phone with a sapphire glass display — the costly but durable material that’s been the subject of industry chatter following reports this year that Apple would begin mass producing devices with sapphire.
Huawei also said at an electronics trade show in Berlin that its Ascend Mate new Ascend P7 “phablet” would become the first Android smartphone on the market with a finger-print sensor, a technology that was first seen on Apple’s iPhone 5s, announced last September.
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