Suzanne Shep­pard

Huawei Tech­nolo­gies (T&T) Lim­it­ed launched its smart­phones in the T&T mar­ket on­ly last year, but ac­cord­ing to gen­er­al man­ag­er Ja­son Deng, in­ter­est in the de­vices is grow­ing.

"We are so hap­py to see that more peo­ple like Huawei de­vices," he said at the launch of the com­pa­ny's newest mo­bile, the P9 and P9 Lite, on Thurs­day evening.

Deng said the com­pa­ny is con­tin­u­ous­ly keep­ing up with in­no­va­tion and co-op­er­at­ed with lead­ing Ger­man cam­era com­pa­ny, Le­ica, to pro­vide top qual­i­ty pho­to­graph­ic ca­pa­bil­i­ties on the de­vice.

"The P9's po­si­tion as the flag­ship of Huawei fo­cus­es on fash­ion de­sign, slim body and how peo­ple like to use the cam­era on the phones.

"It will bring the best user ex­pe­ri­ence for these as­pects," he told spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guests at the launch at the Am­era Build­ing, Queen's Park West, Port-of-Spain.

Deng said Huawei first en­tered the T&T mar­ket in 2006 and in the past ten years, through the bmo­bile brand, had been in­tro­duc­ing the lat­est tech­nolo­gies, in­clud­ing 3G, 4G, LTE

Chevon Wil­son, act­ing ex­ec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent Mo­bile at TSTT, said the lo­cal mo­bile ser­vice provider was hap­py to be part­ner­ing with Huawei "in chang­ing the way our cus­tomers see the world."

High­light­ing the com­pa­ny's moves to trans­form in­to a "21st cen­tu­ry ag­ile broad­band telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions or­gan­i­sa­tion," he said cus­tomers can ex­pect to see dra­mat­i­cal­ly im­proved ser­vice re­li­a­bil­i­ty and few in­ter­rup­tions as TSTT rolls out a new, rapid­ly scal­able IP net­work over the next two years.

"Our cus­tomers will be able to choose the mix and char­ac­ter­is­tics of ser­vices that best suit their busi­ness, per­son­al, or res­i­den­tial needs as the net­work will ful­ly sup­port, among oth­er things, the In­ter­net of Things in­te­gra­tion for smart homes and con­nect­ed liv­ing.

"Fur­ther, cus­tomers will en­joy a mo­bile net­work with cov­er­age and da­ta speeds that ful­ly sup­port their lifestyle needs," Wil­son said.

High­light­ing some of the fea­tures of the new­ly-launched Huawei P9, Wil­son said its su­per hands-free 3.0 tech­nol­o­gy that al­lows for clear con­ver­sa­tions in a car or in a con­fer­ence room.

"Users' pri­va­cy and in­for­ma­tion se­cu­ri­ty are as­sured through Huawei's bio­met­ric fin­ger­print recog­ni­tion tech­nol­o­gy which sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­ers the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fraud­u­lent or ac­ci­den­tal de­vice ac­cess."

Wil­son an­nounced that bmo­bile and Huawei will be giv­ing cus­tomers the op­por­tu­ni­ty to win a trip to Spain to see Li­onel Mes­si in ac­tion with his club, FC Barcelona.

Every week, one lucky bmo­bile cus­tomer who pur­chas­es a Huawei P9 will win a pair of Adi­das foot­ball boots. Cus­tomers who pur­chase the Huawei P9 lite can win a foot­ball jer­sey signed by Mes­si.

All qual­i­fy to win the grand prize of a trip for two to Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, in­clu­sive of air­fare, ac­com­mo­da­tion and tick­ets to a game with Barcelona.