Smartphone sent into sky for record attempt

A smartphone attached to a balloon took to the skies on Monday in an attempt to set a record for the highest live stream from such a device.
The Huawei Honour 8 phone was attached to a weather balloon also carrying a camera and other equipment, and set off from the SSC Esrange Space Centre in northern Sweden. The balloon was expected to burst at an altitude of 30,000 meters with the device then making its way back down by parachute.
Peter Lundkvist of Huawei Technologies Sweden said the balloon reached 18,421 metres before bursting.
"Hopefully, Guinness will accept this as a world record in highest smartphone live streaming," he said.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012.Huawei was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer in the People’s Liberation Army.

Culled from dailytimes.com.pk