Huawei adds Amazon Alexa to flagship phone

Huawei, a Chinese tech giant, is adding Amazon's artificial intelligence application Alexa to its flagship smartphone for its US launch.

Huawei, the No 3 global smartphone brand, announced at last week's Consumer Electronics Show that its Mate 9 handset would include the personal digital assistant developed by Amazon.

The Mate 9, a large-screen "phablet" marketed as a rival to the big handsets from Apple and Samsung, will be available to US buyers in "early 2017", the Chinese firm said at the Las Vegas tech show.