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In addition to the Ascend P7, Huawei will also launch the Ascend D3 at some point this year. As far as we (don’t) know, this model could launch from the floor of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona… or not. We do know that the D3 could easily be more powerful than the P7. While the latter is targeting a mainstream audience, the D3 is more of a geeky device with better hardware and not that fancy design. That’s, at least, the way we see things. According to Unwired View, the Ascend D3 could sport Huawei’s own octa-core chip, HiSilicon Kirin 920, clocked at 1.8GHz. This SoC will rely on ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, combining four faster (Cortex-A9) with four slower (Cortex-A7) cores. We would like those faster cores to be Cortex-A15, but I guess Huawei is still not there. Other D3 specs apparently include a 16-megapixel camera on the back, 5-inch full HD screen and a 6.3mm-thin body. If this phone is not too expensive, Huawei may have a winner at its hand, one that could easily sell in...

Carphone Warehouse cuts SIM-free price by £80 With the arrival of phones like the Moto G and Nexus 5 , pricing in the mid to high-end Android smartphone space has become more competitive than ever. Now we're starting to see other handsets creep down in price to meet this new challenge. UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has dropped the price of one such contender, the Huawei Ascend P6, to £199.95 off-contract, down £80 from its previous price. Though it lacks LTE connectivity the Ascend P6 is a solid mid-range Android phone with a good-looking screen and decent build quality, including an aluminum-framed design. But we're less enamored by Huawei's software design and performance. Here's what our own Andrew Martonik had to say about the P6 in his review  — In terms of physical design and manufacturing prowess, Huawei has a winner on its hands with the Ascend P6. It has managed to take a well-made and good-looking body that is impossibly thin, fill it with some high-...

Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone will also available SIM-free in the UK. The British retailer, Clove is taking pre-order this Huawei phone for £370.80 (around $575 or €473). According to its website, customers will get the SIM-free Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone expected August 2012 ‘official availability to be confirmed’. As mentioned, Vodafone UK is plans to release the Ascend P1 phone in also August. Huawei Ascend P1 is a relatively high-end smartphone and also the thinnest smartphone. It is boasts a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of ROM, and a 1670 mAh Lithium-ion battery. New smartphone runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS and packs a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, as well as covered by Corning Gorilla Glass. Its size is 127.4 x 64.8 x 7.7 mm and weighs 110 grams. For camera feature, there are an 8MP autofocus on back with dual LED flash, and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing. View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Tablets July 25th, 2012, 15:25 by Peter Huawei just announced a new 7? Android tablet – the MediaPad 7 Lite. With Google’s Nexus 7 tablet on the market, there isn’t a lot of room for 7? droid tablets but the Huawei offering does have a few things the pureblood tablet doesn’t. First off, the Huawei MediaPad 7 Lite has an aluminum unibody design. Then there’s the 3G connectivity (with voice calls and SMS), along with cameras on the front and the back. The tablet seems to be running stock Android ICS, but Huawei really thrifty with the details. From one of the images it seems that it has two slots hidden under flaps – presumably one is for the SIM card and the other for a microSD card (which would be another advantage over the Nexus 7), but nothing on the official page confirms it. Actually, that’s all we know about the MediaPad 7 Lite for now – the processor is unknown and there’s no info on pricing, markets or launch date. Without this, we don’t know how it stacks ...

Two Huawei Android latest affordable smartphones have just released in India. They are known as the Huawei Ascend Y200 and the Huawei Ascend G300. Both devices are run Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system (updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich later for the G300). According to source, the Huawei Ascend Y200 smartphone is sold for price tag 8,190 INR (about $146), while the Huawei Ascend G300 is a bit expensive 13,490 INR (around $240). As specs-wise, new Ascend Y200 boasts an 800MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, 512MB of onboard storage, and a 1,250mAh battery. The Huawei Y200 packs a 3.5-inch IPS capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of HVGA (320 x 480 pixels), a 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, and a MicroSD card slot (32GB expandable). The Ascend G300 sports a single-core 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of built-in storage, and a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS display with WVGA (800 x 480) resolution. Other feature is a 5MP rear-facing auto focus camera with LED Flas...

The Huawei Fusion was a budget device on AT&T’s GoPhone prepaid service, and it looks like its successor will be a similar device as well. According to reports online, the Fusion 2 hit recently paid a visit to the FCC so it should be officially announced or released soon. At the moment not much is known about the device, but it will pack a 3.2? display, a 3.2-megapixel rear camera, microSD card slot and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. View the original article here

Posted in: Android, Tablets July 23rd, 2012, 10:33 by Prasad We saw the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD back at Mobile World Congress earlier this year but there hasn’t been any news about it ever since. Now it seems the device is close to its release and so Huawei has released an official video mentioning some of the key features of this 10-inch Android tablet. One of the major features is the presence of a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200 resolution IPS panel, which is the highest so far in the world of Android tablets, along with the new ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity. Other things that the video mentions is an 8.8mm thick, 580g “luxurious, yet subtle” body with “refined metallic surface”, 8 megapixel camera on the back with dual-LED flash, Dolby Surround sound, Huawei’s own K3V2 processor with a quad-core CPU and a 16-core GPU, LTE connectivity, 160GB cloud storage (no particular service mentioned), cloud-based backup and sync, device locator and a laptop-style keyboard dock. No pricing or release d...