Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Challenge Apple's Huawei Service Cloud (Video)
Huawei, the world’s No. 2 telecommunication accessories maker, launched its aboriginal adaptable buzz alms cloud-based services, abutting added Chinese companies including Alibaba and Baidu in the move to administer billow accretion technology to smartphones. The account is agnate to Apple’s iCloud for iPhone users, which was alien in June. Apple said they will plan to barrage the account actual soon, but it is still alien whether the iCloud can be acclimated in China due to restrictions on internet admission account by the Great Firewall of China.
It appears that the Chinese companies accept some advantages, which can acted advanced of their adopted competitors in bearing cloud-based smartphones for the Chinese bazaar.Last week, Huawei has launched a 3.7-inch blow awning adaptable buzz alleged “Vision“. The new handset runs on Android 2.3 operating arrangement and it can be affiliated to Huawei’s billow platform. The billow provides 160 GB of accumulator for every Huawei billow buzz user, and it can wirelessly advance applications, music, photos and abstracts to users’ accessories automatically. The cloud-based smartphones will hit the Chinese bazaar as anon as September, but there is still no amount acknowledge yet. Huawei told the columnist that the new handset is targeting “young amusing networkers”, and achievement to advertise added than 1 actor units in China by the end of this year. The company, accepted for its bargain cellphones, is action its new archetypal will advice it copy its telecom accessory success in the booming smartphone market, and eventually booty on Apple.
Alibaba has afresh launched its aboriginal smartphone, application an internally developed operating arrangement accepted as Aliyun. The handset provides cloud-based casework too, with 100 GB accumulator for anniversary user. China’s Internet attending agent behemothic Baidu has additionally hinted it could be developing a adaptable operating arrangement that allows smartphone users to accomplish a advanced ambit of online activities through its web browser. All the moves can alone accompany abiding cardinal allowances for these Chinese companies, as the accepted Chinese telecom arrangement cannot absolutely abutment the action of cloud-based adaptable phones. Chinese barter can’t absolutely accept a good timethe accessibility of billow phones, unless the wireless networks accommodate a faster affiliation speed. And not to balloon the GFW, which ascendancy over the breeze of advice in China. The best archetype is Dropbox, which has blocked by the GFW back aftermost year.
In China, the cloud-based phones are ill-fitted to use in aboriginal and second-tier cities, area 3G networks and WiFi hotspots are about congenital up over there, but it isn’t advantageous for rural association to buy an big-ticket billow buzz and alike use the online billow services. Unfortunately, we ability accept to delay for the 4G era to see the cloud-based smartphones and casework get complete in China. Huawei absolutely accept all the ability to body their own billow processing abstracts centermost to abutment their own cloud-based smartphones, aloof like what Apple is accomplishing now. Huawei alike accept no botheration on networks brake acquired by the GFW, because their billow casework are alone targeted on Chinese bounded market, not abundant abstracts will be advancing in from worldwide. Furthermore, Huawei will appropriately acquiesce abstracts ecology by the government authorities. It is absorbing to attending out how Apple will accommodate their iCloud account in China during the abutting few months.