Huawei reveals business class MateBook

A telecommunications industry conference may seem an odd place to launch a new laptop.

Maybe not if you are Huawei, the world’s biggest telecommunications hardware brand and the third largest phone maker.

There’s a lot about Huawei’s MateBook computer that defies conventional thinking.

This week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona is the industry’s biggest showcase and talkfest.

Many sessions are on the big questions about the future of mobile phone technology, such as whether the move to 5G networks should be evolutionary or revolutionary.

On the day before MWC started, Huawei showed its MateBook computer to journalists flown in from around the world.

Read the full story at the New Zealand Herald.