Huawei, famous mainly for 3G computing peripherals, is trying its hand at smartphones--and it's latest effort is pretty distinctive: It's bringing the smartphone to entry-level markets.
The smartphone is slowly but surely taking over the handheld world, and Huawei could be accused of attempting to pull a Nokia maneuver by aiming at the lowest common denominator. Ideos, however, is designed to "redefine" the entry-level smartphone concept by "combining high-quality hardware and software with a high price-to-performance ratio."
Here's how Huawei is going to do it. The phone is going to be available in a bunch of colors (black, yellow, blue, and purple) to appeal to the stereotypical youth market. It's got the ability to act as a Mi-Fi-like Wi-Fi router for up to eight devices (versus the Mi-Fi's five). We're imagining a huddle of younger WoW players in a coffee shop here, making the most of someone's Ideos' 7.2Mbps download speeds. In the press info, Huawei highlights functions like voice dialing, voice navigation, and apps running off the SD-card as well as 70,000 applications on the Android Market--all features coming from adopting the Google operating system. And Huawei's trick has certainly been to refine the design of the hardware to keep component costs lower, and including the free OS will have helped with this. The company hasn't skimped though--even while the capacitive screen is just 2.8-inches, there's a 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS and 802.11 n wireless compatibility.
| SPECS | Summary | Preliminary official specifications |
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| GENERAL | 2G Network | GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
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| 3G Network | HSDPA 2100 |
| Announced | 2010, September |
| Status | Available. Released 2010, September |
| SIZE | Dimensions | 104 x 54.8 x 13.5 mm |
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| Weight | 102.1 g |
| BATTERY | Stand-by | Up to 288 h |
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| Talk time | Up to 9 h |
| Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh |
| MEMORY | Phonebook | Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
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| Call records | Practically unlimited |
| Internal | 200 MB storage |
| Card slot | up to 32GB Mobile with Memory Card |
| Description | microSD (TransFlash) |
| FEATURES | | |
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| OS | Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo) |
| CPU | Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz processor |
| Messaging | SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging (IM), Push Mail, |
| SMS(threaded view) |
| Browser | Internet Mobile Phones |
| Colors | Black body / blue, red, yellow backpanels |
| Entertainment | MP3/WMA/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player |
| MP3 Player, Games, Video Editor, Gaming Mobiles |
| Voice Memo | Yes |
| GPS Receiver | Yes |
| PDF Viewer | Yes |
| Google Maps | Yes |
| Java Via third party application
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk
- Organizer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Adobe Flash support
- Voice memo |
| DATA | | |
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| Bluetooth | v2.0 with A2DP Bluetooth Mobiles |
| USB | microUSB v2.0 USB Mobiles |
| GPRS | Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps GPRS Mobiles |
| EDGE | Class 10, 236.8 kbps EDGE Mobiles |
| WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n WLAN Mobiles |
| 3G | HSDPA 3.6 Mbps 3G Mobiles |
| DISPLAY | Type | Scratch Resistance, Touch Screen, TFT, 256K colors |
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| Size | 240 x 320, 2.8 inches |
| Description | Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate |
| CAMERA | Primary | 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 3.15 MP Mobiles, Camera Mobiles |
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| Video | Auto Focus, Video, |
| SOUND | Alert types | |
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| MP3 , |
| Type | MP3 Ringtones |
| Vibration | Yes |
| Speaker Phone |
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