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27th
September 2011
At first glance this big, black slabby smartphone looks
rather dull, but underneath the Huawei Honor is one of the
more interesting Android phones that we've seen for a while.
 This
is an Android 2.3.5 device with a 4" 480 x 854 pixel display,
an 8 megapixel primary camera with HD video recording, plus a 2
megapixel camera for video calling. There's an FM radio, Bluetooth,
a microSD slot, WiFi and 3.5G support plus GPS and all the usual
Android features that you would expect.
Inside is a 1.4 GHz single core CPU with 512MB of RAM. While
all the features so far are pretty impressive, unusually it is perhaps
the battery that makes the Huawei Honor stand out - the 1900 mAh
cell is the largest that we have seen in a smartphone, and it helps
to address the problems caused by the power-hunger Android OS.
It's certainly a powerful number and the large battery should
give it a reasonable battery life, but the generic design isn't
going to wow people and Huawei isn't really a brand that people
have heard of. Still, it looks like a promising choice for Android
fans.
Huawei say that the Honor should be available during Q4 2011
in Asia Pacific countries, Russia and the Middle East. By the end
of 2011 there should be more colours available in addition to the
rather dull black phone provided at launch. Whether or not it will
get a wider release will probably depend on how successful the launch
is, but Huawei are pushing hard into Europe as a whole so we would
expect to see it in more countries over the winter.
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