Although if I had my snarky hat on, I could say that about any of Huawei’s own branded phones. It does tend to play in the cheap end of the pond, after all. The Vision, though, is Huawei’s premium smartphone model.
Premium doesn’t mean all that expensive in the context of smartphones; the Vision is an Allphones exclusive that’ll sell outright for $279 or on a monthly $19 plan, so Huawei’s still playing in familiar territory for the most part.
The Vision is 9.9mm thin, has a 3.7 inch slighly curved touch screen and runs Android 2.3.5, with the SPB Launcher preinstalled to provide a 3D style UI. The rear camera is a five megapixel model. It’s sporting 512MB of RAM and 2GB of onboard storage, with MicroSD card support for up to 32GB more. In other words, it’s not quite entry level, but it’s clearly midrange, and like the IDEOS X1 before it, could be a decent little phone for the asking price.
I’ve got a review phone in to test, but my initial impressions are that this is a reasonable but not spectacular phone for the money. It does do one rather odd thing, though; the back battery cover is highly reminiscent of the kinds of sealed backs that HTC’s been doing for a while, but if you pop it open, it’ll power the phone down. I suppose you’re not likely to open it up much if you’re not going to power it down, but it did take me by surprise.
corey
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 2:15 PMWhats the processor
apollo
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 7:23 PMIts a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU. Very similar to the one used in the galaxy s.
joey
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 8:53 AM1 Ghz
jAY
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 2:31 PMI’d be keen to review. I have an IDEOS which is a neat cheap and cheerful android phone. Always wondered about their “higher end” pitch.
Adam
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 2:53 PMI have an IDEOS and the back cover is soo loose now that sometimes putting it in my pocket will pop it open, I’m luck they didnt have the auto shut down feature then.. considering it takes a good 5 mins for it to be functional again after a reboot.
Jayant
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 5:46 PMit will be helpful if we could know the processor, is it an ARMv6 or ARMv7 processor.
Muskrat
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 6:17 PMI was looking at their next 4″ phone which is upgradable to ICS coming out around Dec / Jan looks reasonable too – Huawei Honor
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, December
Size Dimensions 122 x 61 x 11 mm
Weight 140 g
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 854 pixels, 4.0 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Gyro sensor
Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 1 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash) up to 32GB
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, HDR
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary Yes, 2 MP
Features OS Android OS, v2.3.5 (Gingerbread)
CPU 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255T Snapdragon
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser HTML
Radio FM radio
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Glossy Black, Textured Black, Elegant White, Vibrant Yellow, Cherry Blossom Pink, Burgundy
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- SNS integration
- Digital compass
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/H.263/H.264 player
- Organizer
- Document viewer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Adobe Flash support
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
Battery Standard battery, Li-Po 1900 mAh
Stand-by
Talk time Up to 10 h
David
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 9:02 PMSo no 850mhz! Useless for Telstra!
RobbyM
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 4:48 PMand being Huawei, you don’t need to worry about being hacked by people’s unknown – this way you know it’s the Chinese government or PLA.