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by Stephen Schenck | January 22, 2013 12:20 PMRead On
Huawei was one of the companies that took best advantage of the CES to show off new smartphones, while so many others neglected to have any big news of their own. Just because the company has already announced the Ascend D2, Ascend Mate, and Windows-Phone-running Ascend W1 doesn't mean that Huawei's out of news, and we've just got word of it sending out invitations to a pre-MWC event. So, what can we possibly look forward to it announcing? While the Ascend W1 made its debut at the CES, it seemed almost like an afterthought, not taking the stage with the company's Android devices during its ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 17, 2013 1:00 PMRead On
January: the post-holiday comedown mixes with the post-CES recovery and pre-MWC quiet to form a lull of epic proportions. Fortunately though, leaks and rumors never stop, and we've got a few of them to bat around on this episode of the Weekly. Today, Joe Levi and Anton D. Nagy each return to the podcast to talk rumored Sony Xperia tablets, LG Windows Phones, and the will-it-never-die speculation surrounding a cheap iPhone. Also making the cut: the HTC M7 and Samsung Galaxy S IV, the Huawei Ascend W2, and some far-out pseudo-news regarding LG's supposed "Nexus 5" and "Nexus 7.7." All that, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 14, 2013 10:52 AMRead On
During the latter half of last year, we heard a number of rumors about two Huawei Windows Phone 8 handsets. One, the Ascend W1, we saw the company eventually announce at the CES last week. That lower-end WP8 was one we were already pretty familiar with thanks to a number of leaks. The other model, though, the so-called Ascend W2, had been a whole lot more elusive. At one point, we wondered if they both might make a showing at the CES, but now some comments by Huawei exec Richard Yu have us wondering if it's going to be debuting at the Mobile World Congress, instead. Yu makes it clear that ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | December 14, 2012 3:40 AMRead On
We've heard a lot about the Huawei Ascend W1 recently but with CES 2013 just around the corner leaks and rumors start to pile up, this time about the Chinese manufacturer. According to a recent report Huawei will bring two Windows Phone 8 devices to Las Vegas, one lower-end and one higher-end. The Ascend W1 is expected to be one of them, with rumored specs including a 4.3-inch WVGA display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, five-megapixel camera, VGA front-facer, and a 2,000 mAh battery. According to reports it will go for 1,499 Renminbi (around $240) in ...
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