We all should know about the Huawei brand by now. If not, perhaps the thought of the thinnest smartphone around should help refresh your memory. The Chinese brand is apparently obsessed with making sure it becomes one of the major innovators of the smartphone land by increasing its research and development budget by 20% to $4.5 billion that will bring “disruptive technology” to consumers— essentially unusual advancements. What unusual advancements, you ask? Huawei North America’s Research & Development General Manager John Roese poses this thought to the masses:

“What if you use the camera of a tablet or a smartphone and use it to capture the visualization of your hands? So imagine instead of touching a smartphone, you can actually have a three-dimensional interaction with it.”

Imagine the possibility of having a smartphone that recognized gestures and movements without the user actually having to touch the device— kind of like how the Microsoft Kinect works. That type of technology has Huawei executives thinking and dreaming big. To pull of this type of concept and technology would require Huawei devices to feature some serious internal firepower, so naturally it would need a device featuring the latest and greatest technology. That’s why Roese makes it important to note the Huawei devices featuring the technology would need powerful graphics processing and dual front-facing cameras. Smartphones would likely not be capable of that type of technology in the beginning, so Roese also notes Huawei is likely to build it into tablets first. » Read the rest