China telecom major Huawei Technologies Co Ltd launched its cloud-computing mobile phones on Wednesday.  This is being as a major step to capture the smartphone market.

Global sales from Huawei''s devices division, which sells consumer products such as smartphones, mobile phones, tablets and wireless cards, grew by 64 percent to $4.2 billion in the first half of the year from a year ago.

Shipments jumped nearly 40 percent to 72 million units, Huawei said in a statement on Wednesday.

Huawei launched its "Vision" smartphones at a media event in Beijing, with the new 9.9-mm, 121-g phone running on Google's Android 2.3.

"We are striving to become one of the top three global brands for mobile phones by 2015," Huawei Device CEO Wan Biao said in the statement. The unit contributed about 17 percent to total revenue.

In July, Huawei Device executives said the firm aimed to ship 20 million smartphones this year, higher than a previous target of 12 million-15 million units.

In June, Huawei unveiled its MediaPad, a 7-inch Android-based tablet computer in Singapore, and is also developing a 10-inch device to be launched this year.

The privately-held company employs more than 110,000 people, about half of whom are based outside China.