Huawei to preinstall Opera Mobile 10 in its handsets

Opera Software has announced that Huawei, the China-based leading global telecommunications solutions provider, will preinstall Opera Mobile 10 on a range of mobile handsets. Huawei has long focused on creating value for its customers, and, with Opera Mobile the company can deploy a fast and feature-complete Web experience on multiple mobile platforms.

"Customer expectations for mobile-phone capabilities are constantly growing. We needed a browser that's always ahead of those expectations, anticipating our customers' mobile Web needs and making it a reality. Opera is that browser," said Jiang Huabing, Head of Huawei handset R&D department, Huawei. "China represents unique growth opportunities in the mobile market, and we hope that with the addition of Opera Mobile to our handsets, more of China will soon be online."

As a mainstream mobile-terminal provider, Huawei shipped 30 million mobile phones in 2009. The company is poised to achieve even more now that China has officially entered 3G communication era.