According to a report on the hispanicbusiness.com site, Huawei released its Ascend P6 smartphone, said to be the 'world's slimmest phone', in Lagos, on 6 September. It forecast it would sell 200 000 smartphones in the country by year-end, said Tony Liang, the managing director of the company's consumer business group for West Africa. That is twice the number it sold last year. 'With Nigeria developing economically, smartphone use will boom over the next five years,' he is quoted in the report as saying. Huawei seeks to become one of the top three smartphone vendors by 2018, according to the report. Full report on the hispanicbusiness.com site