Physical Impressions from the Huawei Ascend D Quad

We headed over to the Huawei booth to check out the Ascend D Quad and get some photos of the device and some physical impressions. The device includes Huawei's own HiSilicon K3V2 SoC which consists of a quad core Cortex A9 running at 1.2 GHz (4 cores), 1.5 GHz (1 core), and "16 core" graphics from an unknown IP vendor. The phone also packs a 720p 4.5" LCD display which looked awesome in person.

It's clear that Huawei has come a really long way in the build quality department, as the Ascend D Quad feels very good in the hand and like something at the high end of any other Android smartphone vendor. The styling is superficially close to Samsung's SGS2, and includes a bulge at the bottom with speakerphone and camera centered at the top. The backside has a repeating visual appearance but a smooth soft-touch surface. Huawei is definitely going for the high end market with a vengeance, and I found myself impressed with how far their designs have come since their first Android handsets.

Gallery: Huawei Ascend D Quad

More: Huawei PR

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Huawei Announces Ascend P1 S with 6.68mm thickness

We're at Huawei's press event where we just got to go hands on with the company's two new phones, both running Android Ice Cream Sandwich: the Huawei Ascend P1 S and Ascend P1. Both are based on a 1.5 GHz OMAP4460 SoC with PowerVR SGX 540 graphics and sport a 4.3" SAMOLED qHD display (960x540) with Gorilla Glass front face. 

The P1 S is impressively thin at 6.68 mm. Both the P1 S and P1 sport the same specifications, and only differ in battery capacity - the P1 S includes a 1670 mAh battery, whereas the slightly larger P1 includes an 1800 mAh battery and slightly thicker 7.69 mm waistline. Huawei's industrial design has come a long way in the last two years, this is an impressive device that felt subjectively pretty good in the hands and is clearly aiming at the high end market. Huawei claims that this is the current thinnest smartphone, and impressively includes pentaband WCDMA alongside it. 

Huawei Ascend P1 / P1 SSpecificationsHeight129 mmWidth64.8 mmDepth7.69 mm (P1) / 6.68 mm (P1 S)SoC1.5 GHz Ti OMAP 4460Network SupportPentaband WCDMA 850/900/AWS/1900/2100 MHz, Quadband GSM/EDGEBattery Size1670 mAh (P1 S) / 1800 mAh (P1)WiFi802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 HSCamera8 MP BSI Rear Facing / 1.3 MP Front FacingRAM/ROM1 GB RAM / 4 GB NAND

Gallery: Huawei Ascend P1 / P1 S

The Ascend P1 and P1 S are slated for worldwide availability sometime in April 2012. 

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