The Huawei Ascend Y201 pro looks likely to deliver Android 4.0 to those on a shoe-string budget. If price and performance are right it could be a great entry-level smart phone for Android newbies.
The Y201 only has an 800MHz chip powering it — but it could be worse. HTC stuck a 600MHz chip in its budget Ice Cream Sandwich ‘droid, the Desire C, so I’m hopeful the Y201 will be a slightly slicker performer.
The screen is 3.5 inches across and has a resolution of 320×480 pixels — which means pixel per inch density is a fairly lowly 165. This is not an abysmally poor resolution, but the display certainly won’t be super crisp. You’ll also need to zoom in to read smaller text on webpages.
Huawei has stuck a 1,400mAh battery inside the phone — which it reckons is good for up to five hours of chinwagging or 500 hours on standby. We’ll be sure to test longevity when we get the Y201 in for review.
Specifications of Huawei Ascend Y201
General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
SIM Yes
Announced 2012, August
Status Available. Released 2012, October
Body Dimensions 117 x 61.5 x 11.7 mm (4.61 x 2.42 x 0.46 in)
Weight 125 g (4.41 oz)
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors
Size 320 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches (~165 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Sound Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal 4 GB, 512 MB RAM
Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE Class 12
Speed HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera Primary 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, VGA@30fps
Secondary No
Features OS Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
CPU 800 MHz Cortex-A5
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM
Browser HTML
Radio FM radio
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black
– SNS integration
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
– MP4/H.264 player
– Organizer
– Document viewer
– Photo viewer/editor
– Voice memo/dial
– Predictive text input
Battery Li-Ion 1400 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 500 h
Talk time Up to 5 h
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