Huawei Ascend P1: Full Review – Part 2

The top of the phone has all the necessary buttons. The SIM card slot, micro-USB port and 3.5mm headset jack are all on the top of the handset while, the right side has a micro-SD card slot and the power/sleep button.  The left spine only houses the volume rocker. The bottom has nothing but the microphone pinhole.

The 4.3-inch touch screen is Super-AMOLED with Gorilla Glass protection. With 540×960-pixel resolution, the screen is dense as well. Though it is not the densest but is one of the best qualities when it comes to playing HD videos.

On the top of the screen resides a 1.2-mega pixel camera that is best at capturing VGA-quality video for chatting purposes.

On exactly the flip side lies an 8-mega pixel shooter that is accompanied by a dual-LED flash support.

As it is unibody, the Ascend P1 has durability on its side but the expense of a non-removable battery.

Hardware and Software

The Ascend P1 comes pre-installed with Ice Cream Sandwich, ICS. Although, the company has not added a customized user interface to the recipe, it has the installed a number of applications. One of them is the Rapitide GP in full version.

Under the hood is a powerful dual-core Cortex-A9 processor that is clocked at 1.2 GHz. Supporting the brains is 1 GB of RAM that helps run the ICS silky smooth. WIFI 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and HSPA+ are also included in the package. Huawei has included the latter one for the first time an Ascend. Therefore, technically P1 is a 4G smartphone.

Performance

The smartphone has a fluctuating HSPA+ performance but WiFi covers that up. At any given range in the hotspot, the phone downloads and uploads data at fast speeds. It also has hotspot feature of its own.

Unfortunately, it is the same story with the camera, even more so, it is unpredictably moody. There can be no results deduced for its quality in still photography. It lacks auto-focus functionality and has unpredictable mood to lighting. It takes photos of the same scene in fluctuating qualities.

However, that is not the case with video. Ascend P1 takes 1080p videos with sheer quality.

Call quality is also not consistently good. That may be because of the lack of room for carrier optimization but the sound from the receiver’s end often broke up.

Conclusion

Though it has a beautiful design and is HSPA+ capable and has ICS pre-installed, there are flaws in the handset that will make it a hard sell in the market at $490.

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