Huawei's recently unveiled flagship smartphone, the Ascend P7, has been confirmed to receive
sapphire
screen treatment by a company official. The company also
detailed its plans for Tizen and Windows Phone.
Yu Chengdong, Device
Chairman of Huawei has teased an image of the Ascend P7 with sapphire
screen on his Weibo account tipping that the
handset might be revealed at this year's IFA event in early September.
The company has already sent invites for a September 4 event.

Chengdong
on the Weibo post (as per Gforgames) said, "The company will release the Huawei Ascend P7 in a more
exclusive flavour boasting sapphire display." The Huawei executive also
shared an image of the smartphone on the post.
Chengdong in an
interview had previously
admitted that Huawei was testing the Ascend P7 with the premium sapphire
display. Additionally, Engadget citing a company representative has
claimed that the Ascend P7 with sapphire screen will go
on sale via online channels in China initially, with the first batch of
units expected in September, and the second by November.
It's
worth pointing out that Apple has been
also rumoured to use the costly sapphire as a display material
on the next generation iPhone. However, it is yet to be seen whether
Apple's iPhone device sporting sapphire display will be a reality or not
next month.
As for specifications, the Ascend P7 comes with
5-inch full-HD display; powered by a quad-core HiSilicon Kirin 910T
processor clocked at 1.8GHz; 2 GB of RAM; 13-megapixel rear camera, and
8-megapixel front-facing camera. It is being speculated that the new
Huawei Ascend P7 with sapphire screen will come with the same set of
hardware specifications.
As we mentioned earlier, the Chinese
handset major has already confirmed its presence at IFA as the company
sent invitations for a pre-IFA 2014 event to be held on September 4 in
Berlin, Germany. The company is expected
to launch the Ascend Mate 3 phablet at the event, alongside a new
Honor-branded smartphone.
Additionally, Huawei's head of consumer
business group, Richard Yu, in an interview with WSJ, has revealed the company's intentions for Tizen and Windows Phone
OS.
Yu was quoted saying (via Gigaom), "We have tried using the Windows Phone OS. But it has been difficult
to persuade consumers to buy a Windows phone. It wasn't profitable for
us. We were losing money for two years on those phones. So for now we've
decided to put any releases of new Windows phones on hold. We have
worries about Android being the only option, but we have no choice."
On
being asked about whether Huawei will make Tizen-based smartphones, Yu
noted Tizen has "no chance to be successful." He further revealed that
Huawei probably will not launch a Tizen-based smartphone.
Notably,
Samsung's first Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z, which was unveiled
earlier this year, was in July postponed indefinitely by the South Korean giant.
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