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Huawei

Huawei Ascend P1 hits the FCC

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 25th, 2012 No Comments

While the Huawei Ascend P1 was revealed this past January, there’s been very little to suggest it’s coming any time soon. A new FCC approval may have changed all that, however, as the device is now certified to be sold in the United States. The 4.3 inch device is quite the slim wonder with a [...]

A second look at the Huawei Ascend P1 and Huawei Ascend D Quad [CTIA 2012]

by Quentyn Kennemer on May 10th, 2012 No Comments

We visited Huawei’s booth in hopes of finding some new Android goods, but we’re sad to say that wasn’t the case. We did decide to play with some older (well, old in terms of being announced) devices — the Huawei Ascend P1 (and, by extension, the P1s) and the Huawei D Quad. The latter, of [...]

Huawei MediaPad receives Android 4.0 update

by Kevin Krause on May 3rd, 2012 No Comments

As a string of springtime device updates continues, Huawei is the latest manufacturer to push out Android 4.0 to eager users. The Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Huawei MediaPad is now live across the globe. The new firmware should work with any MediaPad, but the manufacturer prefaces this by saying that it has only [...]

T-Mobile announces Prism for May 6th, only $20 on contract

by Kevin Krause on May 2nd, 2012 No Comments

T-Mobile has announced their latest budget Android handset, the Huawei-made Prism. The phone features a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 3.2MP camera, and 3G connectivity all for the price of $19.99 on a new two-year agreement (and after $50 mail-in rebate). The T-Mobile Prism runs Android 2.3 and is about as entry-level as it gets, but the [...]

Huawei MediaPad receives Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

by Quentyn Kennemer on April 30th, 2012 No Comments

Despite being available for close to half a year, not many devices have received Ice Cream Sandwich. Another device was added to the somewhat exclusive club today, though, as Huawei brought the goods to their 7 inch MediaPad tablet. This 330MB update isn’t available over-the-air so you’ll have to download software to your PC to [...]

Huawei investing in gesture control, cloud storage research

by Kevin Krause on April 30th, 2012 No Comments

Though Huawei has yet to make much of a name for themselves outside of China, the mobile manufacturer isn’t hurting when it comes to research and development money. We were already surprised by the reveal of a quad-core processor developer in house for use in tablets and smartphones — now it sounds like Huawei has [...]

T-Mobile’s new Huawei-manufactured myTouch spotted at the FCC, coming this summer?

by Raveesh Bhalla on April 22nd, 2012 No Comments

It looks like the rumors were true, folks – Huawei becoming the third manufacturer of T-Mobile’s myTouch line of phones in a year (after HTC and LG)  has pretty much been confirmed in these FCC documents found earlier today. The FCC has approved the Huawei U8680, which has in several places been referred to as [...]

Huawei announces Ascend P1 global availability

by Kevin Krause on April 18th, 2012 No Comments

With the Huawei Ascend P1 launching in China today and subsequently selling out according to the company’s chairman, details of the handset’s global retail availability are being released. The slim (but not as slim as its Ascend P1 S counterpart) smartphone will launch in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia this May followed by Latin America [...]

Huawei Ascend D Quad will hit the UK later this year

by Kevin Krause on April 11th, 2012 No Comments

Huawei is looking to make a big push into the international market with their latest crop of smartphones. One of those handsets was introduced at Mobile World Congress. The Ascend D Quad utilizes a quad-core processor developed in-house by Huawei and comes along with the claim that it is the “world’s fastest” smartphone. Just what [...]

Huawei’s MyTouch Ascend Device Gets Hands-on Treatment

by Quentyn Kennemer on March 28th, 2012 No Comments

While Huawei’s MyTouch phone for T-Mobile has been known to exist, it’s been escaping the grips of many-a people up to this point. Engadget procured the phone, however, and posted a hands-on for all to see. The device is placed in the low-end to mid-range market with its 1.4GHz S2 processor, 4GB of internal storage, [...]

Huawei Ascend P1 launching in April, China gets first dibs

by Kevin Krause on March 26th, 2012 No Comments

Though attention has shifted to Huawei’s quad-core devices since January, the Ascend P1 still looks to make a splash. The handset, which was first unveiled at CES, looks to make its debut in April according to news out of a recent Huawei event. The phone will launch first in China and follow up with releases [...]

Huawei Fusion available on AT&T for $125, contract-free

by Raveesh Bhalla on March 24th, 2012 No Comments

Looking for the power of a smartphone but the freedom of a no-contract, pre-paid connection? Well, dear sir (or madame), AT&T can offer you the Huawei Fusion. For $125, you can get your hands on the Gingerbread phone with 3.5", 320 X 480 pixel screen, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.1, FM Radio, 32 GB [...]

Huawei Ascend D Quad to enter production in June, will ship in July

by Kevin Krause on March 21st, 2012 No Comments

Huawei’s first quad-core smartphone, the Ascend D Quad introduced at this year’s Mobile World Congress, will hit shelves in July according to Chinese website CNMO. The phone is set to go into mass production a month prior in June, giving the D Quad a bit later of a start than most expected. The handset’s processor [...]

Huawei’s First MyTouch Phone Leaked

by Quentyn Kennemer on March 20th, 2012 No Comments

T-Mobile seems to be continuing the MyTouch line with Huawei as TmoNews has uncovered an early photo of the device. Not much is known at this time but we do know it runs Android 2.3.6 and will likely have a custom user interface. This particular model also won’t have a keyboard, but don’t rule out [...]

Does Huawei’s Ascend D Quad XL Have the Fastest Processor on the Market?

by Quentyn Kennemer on March 16th, 2012 No Comments

A ton of great new SoC developments have been introduced as of late. Qualcomm’s S4 is an exciting chipset yet to be publicly available in a product, NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 with its 4+1 quad-core chipset and 12 core GPU has been established and is set to make a big splash this year, and Apple claims [...]

Huawei Prism Pictured in Press Shot

by Quentyn Kennemer on March 9th, 2012 No Comments

The Huawei Prism rumor mill is gaining steam. Following a brief visit to the FCC, we’ve finally gotten our first real look at the device. Well, it’s not technically real. It’s a press shot, but they usually give us a good indication of what to expect. The device is as small as we’d expected, around [...]

Huawei Prism Hit the FCC

by Quentyn Kennemer on March 7th, 2012 No Comments

Huawei’s looking to come to town with another low-end device, it seems, as the Huawei Prism – model number U8651T – has passed the FCC. Its model number seems to position it close to the Huawei Sonic, a device which launched on T-Mobile last year. It had a 3.5 inch display, 512MB of RAM, Android [...]

The New iPad compared to ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, and Huawei Mediapad 10 FHD

by Kevin Krause on March 7th, 2012 No Comments

In one announcement Apple has again turned the tablet world on its head, but have Android tablets improved enough in a year to weather the next iPad storm? The third iteration of the iPad improves on nearly every aspect of last year’s design and will no doubt sell millions in its first few weeks of [...]

Huawei’s Ascend D LTE Coming To UK and Asia In July

by Chris Chavez on March 2nd, 2012 No Comments

Huawei had a pretty impressive showing at this week’s MWC and now, they’re announcing the July availability of their Ascend D LTE smartphone for Europe and Asia. The Huawei Ascend D LTE  S is packing a nicely sized 4.5-inch HD display but, unlike the Ascend D Quad with a quad-core processor that we got our [...]

A Pair of New Mytouch Devices Headed To T-Mobile – This Time From Huawei

by Chris Chavez on March 2nd, 2012 No Comments

A pair of new Huawei devices are headed to T-Mobile under Magenta’s “myTouch” branding. Previously we’ve seen Mytouches from HTC and LG and now it looks like Huawei will take the reins with their U8680 and U8730 devices to launch sometime this Spring. Don’t expect too much in terms of specs with both devices rocking [...]