Huawei’s product strategy: Half Silicon Valley, half Hollywood

Huawei, the embattled China-based telecom equipment maker that has been trying unsuccessfully to make an entrance into the U.S., thinks it has the right recipe to be successful in smartphones.

Speaking to Reuters in an interview published on Friday, Huawei deputy chairman Guo Ping said that his company wants to expand its presence in smartphones and not co-branded devices with carriers, as it has in the past. As part of that strategy, the company wants to try and combine the benefits of flashiness and high-tech to appeal to customers.

“In some ways, (designing) a smartphone is in the middle of Silicon Valley and Hollywood,” Guo Ping told Reuters. “Silicon Valley represents technology — and smartphones need strong technology — and the Hollywood aspect is about experience and perception.”

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Analogies aside, it appears that Huawei is thinking about the dramatic and delivering something that combines strong features with some design and feature ideas the market hasn’t seen. But the company also wants to try something else: blur the lines between high-end and low-end devices.

“On the technology front we have a lot of breakthroughs. I don’t know low-end or high-end,” he told Reuters. “We just care about satisfying customer needs.”

Interestingly, the Huawei vice-chairman didn’t discuss what might be on everyone else’s mind: how Huawei feels about claims from U.S. lawmakers that it could be a spy threat for the Chinese government. It appears now that Huawei’s chief focus is purely smartphones.

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