Huawei Ascend Y100

Huawei brings the budget-friendly entry-level Ascend Y Series Android smartphones to its Ascend line. The Ascend Y100 gets a 2.8-inch touchscreen while the Ascend Y200 features a bigger 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen. They both pack 3.2 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS/AGPS and WiFi connectivity.

Other than those high-end models such as Ascend D series (D for Diamond) and Ascend P series (P for Platinum), Huawei will also launch the mid-range Ascend G300 (G stands for Gold). Boasting a 1GHz single-core processor, the phone will be loaded with Android 2.3 with future upgrade to Android 4.0. It has a 4-inch WVGA touchscreen and a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera.

The quad-core Ascend D quad and Ascend D quad XL are not the only members of the Ascend D line, Huawei is also launching the Ascend D lte, a 4G smartphone. The handset supports LTE 1800/2600/800/2300 4G networks as well as quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band 900/2100 HSPA. Unlike its brother, the LTE model doesn’t get a quad-core CPU, but a 1.5Ghz dual-core processor. There is 1GB RAM.

While ZTE has the ultra thin Era, another Chinese company Huawei also announced its quad-core smartphones, the Ascend D quad series. Boosted by Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core processor, the Ascend D quad comes with Android 4.0 ICS. It features a 4.5-inch 720p HD touchscreen with 330dpi density for clear display, and is equipped with 32-bit true color graphics processor.

Huawei announced at the CES 2012 the world’s slimmest smatphone, the Ascend P1 S that measures just 6.68mm thin. Powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 Cortex-A9 processor, the Ascend P1 S runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It has a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen with 940×540 resolution and Gorilla Glass.

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