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.
It’s smooth to use, the 1080p display is sharp, clear and bright, the device is extremely light and thin and therefore very pocketable and portable — much more so than other 5-inch phones we’ve used. And yet… we’re a bit unimpressed by the overall package…
A relatively high-spec smartphone, with a 4.5″ display running at 480 x 854 resolution and powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, plus the Ascend G510 arrives running Android 4.1.1 — albeit potentially hindered by Huawei only sticking 512MB of RAM inside it..
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
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