Huawie Launches a Tablet: MediaPad

Huawei has launched a tablet PC 'MediaPad' and two handsets 'Sonic' and 'Ideos X3' supporting cloud services to strengthen its product portfolio in India.

In a statement to the PTI, Anurag Marang, Marketing Director (Devices), Huawei, said: "We launched our devices earlier this year and by December-end, we should have 10-odd devices. India is a very important market for us and we are aggressively expanding our product-line in India. Next year, the plan is to have 20-30 devices in our portfolio."

The company is also looking at strengthening its retail presence and expects to have 10,000 outlets across more than 50 cities.

The MediaPad runs on Android 3.2 Honeycomb and has a 7-inch screen. It uses a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor from Qualcomm. It has a 1.3 MP camera on the front and and a 5 MP camera at the rear. It costs Rs 28,359.

Huawei has also launched two handsets supporting Cloud+ service under which users will get 16 GB of storage.

Huawei Sonic costs Rs 9,210 while Ideos X3 costs Rs 10,229. The operating system in both is Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

Sonic has a 3.5-inch multi-touch HVGA display, 512 MB in-built storage and an additional storage of 20 GB of which 4 GB is provided through a Micro SD Card and 16GB in the form of storage on "cloud net drive".

Ideos offers X3 features dual camera (3.2MP and VGA) and 3.2-inch screen.