CNET Asia visited the Huawei booth at CommunicAsia 2010 and tried out the SmaKit S7 Android tablet. This device runs on Android 2.1 and has a 7-inch WVGA display.

Chinese manufacturers also have the ambition to invest the media segment shelves. Proof is the Smak Huawei, a 7 “Android tablet could be distributed by a French operator.

Chinese suppliers no longer content to provide white label products or be confined to professional segmens such as telecom equipment. The two major Chinese players in telephony, ZTE and Huawei, are now directly compete with established players.

If they have started to invest the segment of smartphones, they are the masters of USB 3G extensively distributed by mobile operators. Having good relations with them, they can use this advantage to try to gain a foothold in an emerging market: the media shelves. Continue Reading

Here’s a 7″ Android Tablet prototype presented by Huawei at Mobile World Congress 2010, it has got a customized Android user interface, with special home screens and other customizations designed by Huawei to make the 7″ Android tablet user experience pretty good.