Chinese handset maker Honor has announced its plans of foraying into the India PC market, with two laptops built on Windows platform, in the first quarter of 2020.
Honor President for Overseas marketing and Sales, James Zou said that the company will launch two laptops in India in 2020, which will have chipset of two US companies – Intel and AMD. “We have restarted working with Microsoft. They have licensed our products.”
While the exact launch date has not been disclosed, a company note said that the laptops with AMD processor will be launched globally, including in India, in the first quarter of 2020.
Zou said that the company plans to expand its product portfolio in India in 2020, which will also include the launch of a new television on its own operating system Harmony OS, smartwatch and new smartphones starting with Honor 9X that will support storage capacity of 512 gigabyte.
The company is using hardware and software of US companies that have been given exemption to supply their products to Huawei, the parent company of Honor.
Honor developed its own mobile services suite and operating system after it was debarred from using Google Mobile Services (GMS) suite for its new smartphones due to restrictions imposed on it by the US government. Honor 9X, however, will come with GMS.
In 2020, according to Zou, the company will focus on building new partnerships in India. The company is already in talks with Nokia and TomTom to bring their map application on HMS.
Huawei, including Honor, is estimated to have around 3 per cent share in India.
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