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Huawei Ascend G330 – Review

Huawei are quickly becoming a major force in the mobile world and their latest budget offering, the Ascend G330, has a lot of pressure on it to continue the impressive trend of affordable handsets that punch above their weight. The Ascend G330 is the replacement for the Ascend …

Huawei Ascend P1 now less than £200

Yes, I know. Whenever the headline reads “less than £200” you know it’s going to be 1p less. But hey, it’s a good price for a great handset. The P1 has a definite “Galaxy SII” feel about it but we were suitably impressed in out Ascend P1 review. …

O2 confirmed Huawei Ascend W1 Windows Phone

O2 have confirmed they will be stocking the first Windows Phone 8 device made by Huawei called the Ascend W1. Launch is set for some time in Q1 2013 so it wont be long until you can get your hands on it. The Huawei Ascend W1 features a …

Huawei Ascend D2 announced at CES

Earlier on we brought the news that Huawei had announced the Ascend Mate, a 6.1 inch phablet device. Now meet the Ascend D2 – the “hero” product in the Ascend series. Powered by Android 4.1 this has a 5″ FHD IPS+ 443 PPI Super Retina LCD screen. It’s …

Huawei to launch an Apple and Samsung-beating handset

I’ve said it many, many times before and I’ll say it once again… in bold font… Watch out for Huawei When I looked at the Ascend P1 I was amazed at how good it was. It’s nothing short of fantastic, and their kit is getting better by the …

Huawei announce G330 and Y201

Huawei have today announced two new models for its line up of Android handsets. Firstly the Ascend G330, the follow up to the G300, runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has a 4″ screen, is powered by a 1Ghz dual core processor and  incorporates Huawei’s own HAP 5.1 …

Huawei P1 in white to be exclusive to Phones 4u

We loved the Ascend P1. A great design (albeit quite similar to the Galaxy S2), a great price and no clutter in the OS. Now Phones 4u have announced that they’ll be doing the pearly white version exclusively. It’s up for £299.95 on pay-as-you-go or for as little …

Huawei Ascend P1 to be enhanced

If you read our Ascend P1 reviews then you’ll probably be aware that we were pretty impressed. The Huawei handset may “only” be dual core, but for the money it’s a brilliant handset which really pushes the company into the limelight. We’ve just been told that, following our …

Ascend P1 coming to Vodafone on PAYG

No indication on price just yet, but the most recent Vodafone catalogue shows the handset as coming to both Pay As You Go and Contract. Previously we had only seen the phone on contract, and we’re guessing that this slim stock-Android phone will be pretty flippin’ cheap too. …

Huawei Ascend P1 – Review 2

Those regular eagle eyed readers out there will have noted that this phone has already been reviewed by our editor in chief Leigh Geary, so instead of rehashing what he has already done, this will give you a different slant on this slim powerhouse. Hardware The phone is …

Coolsmartphone Podcast – Episode 7

  It’s friday and that means its time for us to share another podcast with you. This week is a veritable variety bag of topics, including the LG Optimus 4x, the Huawei Ascend P1, 4G in the UK, Android Piracy and Dan has an announcement. This week your …

A few more example shots from the Ascend P1

So, we took a walk over Cannock Chase this weekend and I … crashed the car into a rock. Wehay! No seriously. I properly broke the car. Anyhow, before all that happened I’d had requests from you guys for more example photos from the Huawei Ascend P1. We …

Example video taken on the Huawei Ascend P1

Yesterday you may have read our review of the Huawei Ascend P1. It’s safe to say that we raved about this particular phone quite a bit. For the money it really is a great bit of kit with a fantastic screen and a great camera. Just to show …

Huawei Ascend P1 Review

I’m going to start this review in a rather unconventional way. Bear with me. Straight away. Gotta admit it. This really isn’t bad. I mean sure, when I hold the Samsung Galaxy SII, then switch to this, there’s an ever-so-slight quality difference. The camera sticks out ever-such-a-little too …

Huawei Ascend P1 Arrives in the UK next month

Arriving on Vodafone in early August, the Ascend P1 from Huawei is a a slender handset which shares some of the same styling points as the S2 from Samsung. It runs a relatively unspoilt Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and will be free on monthly price plans of …

Huawei Ascend G300 Review

You might not know it but Huawei have been around in the mobile industry for a long long time now, If you have one of those USB dongles which were all the craze a year ago there is a good chance Huawei made it. They also made handsets …

Huawei Ascend Y 100 – Overview and first look

This morning a jiffy bag turned up and a small phone was inside. To a “power user” the diminutive Huawei Ascend Y 100 has a relatively small 2.8″ LCD screen and isn’t anywhere near as large as phones like the Galaxy SIII or HTC One Series. The “geek” …

Huawei announce global availability for the Ascend P1

During MWC in Barcelona Leigh got his hands on the upcoming Huawei Ascend P1. It looks to be a super thin and good looking phone. Today in Beijing Huawei have announced the global availability of the device. Europe seems to be the last to see it, but it should be …

Huawei Ascend G300 Coming to Vodafone this Friday

We have just had some hands on time thanks to Vodafone and Huawei with the Huawei Ascend G300. We can now announce that this handset will be exclusive to Vodafone. It will launch this FRIDAY on both Pay Monthly and PAYG plans either online, over the phone or …

MWC – Huawei Ascend D – Up close

This is the Ascend D1 – not to be confused with it’s more powerful brother, the D quad. This, if we’re honest, is pretty much exactly the same in every way but with a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU instead of the quad-core unit in the D quad. Android 4.0 …

MWC – Huawei Ascend G – Up close

Whilst generally hanging around the Huawei stand we decided to have a look at the Ascend G unit (sorry, just had to add “unit” there). It’s actually called the “Huawei Ascend G 300″ on the stand and has a 4” WVGA screen, Google Android 2.3 and a 5 …

MWC – ZTE Ascend D1 vs Samsung Galaxy SII

So, we’ve noticed a bit of a similarity between the two handsets here at Mobile World Congress. We’ve also noticed something else – namely what happens if you say “D quad” quickly enough….. Anyways, unfortunately there wasn’t time for a direct speed or usage comparison, but we did …

MWC – Huawei Ascend D quad – Up close

The Huawei Ascend D quad was announced just yesterday, so we thought it’d be worth visiting the Huawei stand to (a) snap some pictures and film it and (b) try and convince them to change the company name so it’s easier for us to spell. Sadly there was …

MWC – Huawei Announce Ascend D & XL

Huawei have today announced the Ascend D and the XL a day before MWC is about to kick off. This is touted as being the worlds fastest smartphone with some awesome specifications. Powered by Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core 1.2GHz/1.5GHz CPU there’s more than passing resemblance to the Samsung Galaxy …

Huawei Ascend P1 and P1 S – Up close

The other day we got a first look at ths super-slim P1 and P1 S from Huawei. Now, mark my words, Huawei are definitely worth keeping an eye on, especially with Mobile World Congress around the corner. They’re the people behind the Orange Tahiti tablet and their handsets …

CES – Huawei go super-slim with the Ascend P1 and P1 S

Huawei have just announced the Ascend P1 and P1 S Android smartphones. First up, the Ascend P1 S. This is just 6.68mm thick and has a slight buldge at the bottom just like the Galaxy SII from Samsung. It’ll run the very latest Android OS – Ice Cream …