Counterclockwise: Huawei bets on Android early and grows big quickly

Huawei is currently the largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment, but it is a very young company – it was only founded in 1987. And it didn’t start making phones until 2003, but it already has ambitions to be the largest smartphone maker in the world, just like in conquered the networking hardware field.

The first phone to come out of Huawei’s handset division was the C300 in 2004. It was a simple feature phone for CDMA networks. Then came the U626, the company’s first 3G-enabled phone (the history of China’s mobile networks is quite interesting, but here’s not the…


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