Huawei to take on the world with $80 Smartphone?

[jokiin]

I do tend to agree that this is (if anyones) Nokia's territory - OK so the "cheap as chips" stuff Nokia sell is more 'phone' than 'smartphone' , but the fact is that the smartphone is gradually wiping out the non-smartphone. I can far more easily envisage Nokia owning this end of the market than the other end !

actually I could see Nokia and Samsung both competing for the low end stuff, Samsung is very much about driving the numbers to deliver component cost savings (they do it in all sorts of categories already) that can benefit the profitibility of the higher end models

Seriously , The Chinese can do things on the cheap , but I'd be surprised if they are prepared to stoop as low as Nokia - and I think they'll earn their place as king of the plastic smartphone ,
Who knows , the may even have china manufacture them and simply brand & OS them ?

Not hard to imagine, plenty of low end Nokia's rolling out of China already