China’s Huawei is continuing its push into the consumer device market with the introduction of its first LTE handset in the United States, the Huawei Activa. MetroPCS will sell the Activa for $149 (with a mail-in rebate) and will not require a contract.
The Activa is an Android 2.3 phone with a 3.5-inch screen and front and rear cameras. Huawei said the phone’s cellular modem is the GDM7240 made by GCT Semiconductor, but the company did not disclose the maker of the smartphone’s 800 MHz processor. Huawei itself may be making the processor; the Chinese giant has said that it plans to make chips for its devices.
Huawei is a leader vendor of wireless infrastructure equipment but that business has been under pressure recently. Earlier this year the company said that it expects revenue growth of 15% to 20% in 2012, and analysts expect the company’s most rapid growth to be in consumer devices and in selling equipment and services to enterprises.
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