Huawei Plans to Ship over 12 Million Android Handsets this Year
If last year showed the beginnings of what fringe handset manufacturers could produce with budget-oriented consumers in mind, 2011 looks to be the year that such low-priced Android offerings invade the world en masse. In a recent interview with Reuters, Huawei’s chief strategy and marketing officer Victor Xu said the company has plans to ship 60 million mobile handsets this year. Of those 60 million, 12 to 15 million will be smartphones. That equates to three to five times the number of smartphones the company shipped last year as they began to expand their business outside of their native China. Judging by the companies track record to deploy Android, look for more handsets echoing the design of their current Ideos lineup: low cost even without a contract and deploying relatively up-to-date versions of the Android OS.
[via Reuters]