Huawei pokes fun at Apple, Samsung using iPhone app, Siri

Chinese telecom giant Huawei, the third biggest smartphone maker in the world, has trolled rivals Samsung and Apple in its new teaser for Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014. The company has poked fun at the two biggest smartphone makers using iPhone and a Siri-like voice assistant.

In a video released on YouTube, a smartphone user asks his iPhone "What's new at this year's Mobile World Congress?" and the digital assistant, whose interface and voice are quite similar to Apple's Siri, gives information about three devices.

The first is "a new tablet with a beautiful, slim design" and its "huge battery gives you days of use." The second is a smartphone "with an amazing front camera." The last "really amazing" device headed to MWC 2014, as per the voice assistant, is "a multimedia tablet that gives the ultimate entertainment experience." This tablet also supports the fastest next-generation LTE (4G) connections.

And now comes the punch line. The smartphone user asks the voice assistant "What are they? Fruit or Some Song?" In response, the software says, "No, they are Huawei. It looks like Huawei is ready to amaze the world again."

Huawei has been struggling to make headway into the profitable US market, despite strong sales in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa and Middle East. The company has been a fast mover, launching smartphones with big screen or thin profiles, but has been embroiled in controversy over claims of spying on US networks for China.

The company has 4.8% share of the global smartphone market in 2013 and 5.7% in the fourth quarter of the year.

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Sony Xperia new tablet photo, specifications leaked

Sony's lineup for Mobile World Congress 2014 seems to be getting bigger everyday. While Xperia Z2 and Xperia G were leaked recently, the latest to join their ranks is the next-generation tablet.

The specifications and image of the upcoming Xperia Tablet Z2 have been leaked online by Twitter user EVLeaks. In terms of looks, the device will look similar to the current model, Xperia Tablet Z. Thus it will continue with the thin profile and thick bezels. It is not yet clear whether it will use metal in the new tablet, as it has done with the Xperia Z1 smartphone; its predecessor is made using plastic and glass.

Hardware specifications of Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 include 10.1-inch display with 1920x1080p resolution, 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 chipset and 3GB RAM. Other features include 8MP rear camera, 2MP front camera, 6,000mAh battery, 16GB internal storage, microSD support and Android 4.4 (KitKat) operating system. Just like the previous Sony tablet, Xperia Tablet Z2 will be waterproof.

Twitter user Gadget Leaks has also reported that Xperia Tablet Z2 will have dimensions of 266x172x6.4mm. The Wi-Fi only model will weigh 426gram, while the 4G-capable variant will weight 439gram; this will make the device much lighter than the iPad Air, the lightest full-sized tablet in the market right now.

Sony unveiled the predecessor of this model at Mobile World Congress last year.