Huawei launches the world's smallest and fastest HSDPA USB Modem

Huawei's HSDPA modem - the E220 - is the latest edition to the company's data card family which includes products such as the E620, E612 and E618 and has a number of key benefits. A sleek device, just 8.6 centimetres long, it has a transportation rate of 3.6Mbps guaranteeing smooth Internet surfing and online video and audio streaming. It supports multiple standards such as HSDPA, WCDMA, EDGE and GPRS and the External mini USB interface allows easy connection to a wide variety of end-user devices, such as laptops and desktops.

The company also introduced two new UMTS dual mode handsets - U528, U526 and five CDMA handsets - C5300, C3300, C2285, C2281, C2205. Huawei's stylish 3G handset range offers superb value to customers including high resolution colour displays, enabling 3G services like video calling and video streaming and powerful multimedia functions such MP3/MP4 compatibility. The handsets have external mega pixel cameras, Java games, and supports SD cards and Java applications.

'The UMTS market has developed rapidly over the last few years,' said Wang Jiading, vice president, Huawei Technologies Middle East and North Africa region. 'We expect this trend to continue and will continue to increase our R&D investment in wireless terminals to provide high quality communication solutions to our customers throughout the region.'

Huawei's wireless terminal technologies are currently deployed in over 70 countries including China, Sweden, Portugal, Russia, India, Brazil, UK, Italy, Spain, France and Hong Kong and its products provide bottom-line value to the world's top operators such as Vodafone, Hutchison and Telefonica.