Huawei unveils world’s fastest 4G LTE smartphone

Technological capacities of Ascend P2 will enable customers to have fastest access to their content with speeds upto 150 mbps

Chinese information and communication technology solutions provider Huawei has introduced ‘Huawei Ascend P2’, which it claims to be the world’s fastest 4G smartphone, at the 2013 Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, Spain.

The 8-mm slim, second-generation Corning Gorilla Glass touch phone, which features a 1.5-gigahertz quad-core processor and LTE (long-term evolution), will be on sale in France through telecom services provider 'Orange' in June 2013. Ascend P2 will also be available globally around the second quarter of 2013, the company said in a release on Monday.

“The technological capabilities of Ascend P2 will enable our customers to have the fastest access to all  their content, with speed up to 150 mbps (megabits per second) on our brand new 4G network,” said Florence Paour, device marketing director of Orange France.

Ascend P2 runs on the Android 4.1 operating system, complete with Huawei’s proprietary ‘swift sharing’ that supports uploads and downloads two to three times faster than other smartphones in a Wi-Fi environment, and power-saving technologies that reduces power consumption and charging time by more than 30% compared to other smart phones, the company said.