Huawei Ascend P7 breaks 1 million sales mark

Tags: Huawei , Android

The 6.5mm Huawei Ascend P7 is one of the best looking and thinnest smartphones on the market, a feature that has helped the company sell some 1 million units since the devices launch.

But the Chinese company wont stop there. It has declared its hopes to sell a total of 10 million units in 12 months - an ambitious goal for a relatively minor player in western markets.

However, Huawei was able to sell 4 million units of the P7s precursor, the Ascend P6 during its lifecycle, starting in June 2013. The company has also slowly risen to third global smartphone manufacturer, behind Apple and Samsung, by selling 52 million smartphones last year.

Besides the slim waistline, the P7 offers a 5-inch 1080p display, 13MP/8MP front/rear camera combo, and 2GB of RAM to go with its home-brewed quad-core 1.8GHz Kirin 910T chipset. We were really impressed by the build quality of the P7, but not so much by its performance in our full review.

The Ascend P7 has not yet seen a release in the US (and could forego one altogether), so stateside customers will have to look at unofficial online retailers like eBay or Amazon for a P7.

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Analysts think iPhone 6 sales will be 20 higher than 5s

Tags: Apple , iOS

Analysts at Morgan Stanley believe that the sales of iPhone 6 will be 20% higher than that of the 5s, partly because the production process has been running smoothly and there aren’t any foreseeable issues that Apple will encounter in procuring components for continued production of their upcoming flagship.

This is a significant contrast to the iPhone 5s, which only helped Apple to secure a 6.7% increase in profits (in Q4 2013) from the previous year. The rate of growth was much less than what Apple had originally anticipated.

Another factor that is thought to contribute to a projected boon in iPhone 6 sales is the increased screen size of the device. It will be the first iPhone that will compete with Android flagships with larger screens. All of the hulabaloo of Apple finally deciding to up the ante with their screens may captivate the attention, and wallets, of consumers.

Analyst Katy Huberty at Morgan Stanley did point out, however, that the bill of materials for the iPhone 6 were most likely going to be $20-$30 more per unit than the current-gen iPhone 5s. The updated camera and larger screen account for the majority of the price increase.

Huberty had also this to say regarding the increased price of production for the iPhone 6:

"However, we dont detect any abnormal component pricing pressure from Apple suggesting lower inventory, deprecation, and warranty costs along with the potential for a modest price increase and/or NAND mix change may help digest the higher (bill of materials),"

Even though predictions for the iPhone 6 are positive, the tablet market’s outlook doesn’t as promising. The same Morgan Stanley analyst believes that shipments of the iPad will see a 1% decrease starting from Q3 2014 and into 2015.

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