Huawei’s going into the premium HD five-incher world, with its Ascend P7 combining a 1.8Ghz quad-core Huawei chipset with 2GB of RAM and a full HD display. There’s a 13megapixel Sony sensor around the back of it, plus a high-res 8megapixel front-facing camera that builds upon that offered by last year’s Ascend P6.
The 2,500mAh battery compares well enough with its peers, plus the entry level storage option on the P7 is 16GB — and there’s an SD card slot on it too. Here she is, in a photograph we just took here at the launch event in Paris:
What’s not so thrilling is seeing Huawei’s bonkers Emotion UI laid atop Android 4.4 here and the lack of the app drawer, but Huawei usually lets you turn off most of its customisations so perhaps it’ll be bearable. Not as amazingly innovative a phone as Huawei was suggesting, so as ever our enthusiasm levels will be determined by its eventual selling price.
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