Huawei breaks price ceiling with 5 g smartphone $2,600 folding

BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters)-Huawei Technologies launched on Sunday a new smartphone $2,600 folding, which according to the company is ready for the next generation of 5 g mobile connections, even though the United States are promoting a campaign to ban the Chinese company of such networks for security concerns. Huawei, the second largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world after Samsung, said it had a head start developing phones for 5 g network-that promises lightning-fast internet speeds to consumers and businesses – why is also involved in development of networks. "This phone is not only for the 5 g of today, but also to the 5 g of the future. In all the references you can see the performance, speed, which is the fastest to 5 g in the world, "said Richard Yu, head of the consumer business group of Huawei. Speaking before the biggest event in the mobile technology industry in the world, which starts at Monday in Barcelona, Yu said that the Huawei Kill X will have two opposite screens, which unfold, becoming a tablet with eight-inch screen. Huawei BUSINESS breaks with 5 g smartphone price ceiling of US $2,600 folding by JACK STUBBS/REUTERS • posted in 24/02/19 at 16:25 by Jack Stubbs BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters)-Huawei Technologies launched on Sunday a new smartphone $2,600 folding , which according to the company is ready for the next generation of 5 g mobile connections, even though the United States are promoting a campaign to ban the Chinese company of such networks for security concerns. Huawei, the second largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world after Samsung, said it had a head start developing phones for 5 g network-that promises lightning-fast internet speeds to consumers and businesses – why is also involved in development of networks. "This phone is not only for the 5 g of today, but also to the 5 g of the future. In all the references you can see the performance, speed, which is the fastest to 5 g in the world, "said Richard Yu, head of the consumer business group of Huawei. Speaking before the biggest event in the mobile technology industry in the world, which starts at Monday in Barcelona, Yu said that the Huawei Kill X will have two opposite screens, which unfold, becoming a tablet with eight-inch screen. Yu said the Kill X could download a 1-gigabyte movie in three seconds, but also would cost EUR 2,299 (2,607 dollars) to be released on the market yet this year, setting a new ceiling for the consumer-oriented smartphones. Samsung Electronics presented last week your own foldable smartphone, which will cost around $2,000, in an attempt to overcome Apple's technology and Chinese rivals, as well as revive the interest of customers, amid falling sales. Huawei, which is also the largest producer of telecommunications equipment in the world, is under intense scrutiny in the West due to u.s. allegations that she was allowing Chinese State espionage, which the company denies. The Chairman of Huawei said on Sunday that comment made by the President of the United States, Donald Trump recently that the country needed next in mobile communications through competition instead of trying to block the technology was "clear and correct ". [L5N20J0EI]