Huawei on Tuesday launched three smartphones for the Indian market — IDEOS X5, IDEOS X2 and IDEOS Chat — targeted at young consumers in the city and said it would launch eight to ten mobile handset models this year.

“We will target smartphones, tablets as well as 3G-featured phones (in India),” the Huawei India Device Business Department Director-Marketing & Solutions, Mr Anand Narang, said.

Mr Sanjeev said the company would focus on phones costing above Rs 5,000.

Mr Narang said the company would launch tablets in India in the third quarter (July-September) of this year.

Huawei is aiming at a 5-7 per cent market share in the Indian mobile handsets market by 2013.

The IDEOS Chat (Rs 8,199), with both a touch screen and qwerty keypad, would be focused for younger and on-the-go consumers.