Over the course of the last year or two, we've had our eye on Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE, once relegated to being the OEMs behind phones that arrived with full carrier branding, hiding their true creators, and rising to become some more serious competition on the global scene. Huawei really grabbed itself some spotlight at the CES this year (though perhaps due to their being so little else to see), with stand-out phones like the Ascend Mate and its first Windows Phone offering, the Ascend W1. Today, we get to learn just how well the company's been doing, as well as finally ...

One of the reasons I like Huawei, and why its press events continue to excite me, is its tenacity. The company is the embodiment of persistence. Month after month, it struggles to crack its way into new markets like the United States, and time after time, it gets shut down. Like the nameless protagonist in that classic by Chumbawamba, though, Huawei "gets knocked down, but it gets up again." We're (apparently) never gonna keep it down. Part of the reason for Huawei's difficulty is that, in the consumer space, it's a new brand: for much of its history, the company has functioned as an ODM ...

Huawei put on one of the more interesting showings at this year's CES, so we're finding ourselves paying just a little bit more attention to the company's products, including some that didn't make the CES cut. Today we hear about a new model that, while it doesn't have the most cutting-edge specs around, looks to present a pretty decent entry-level Android at a killer price. The Huawei G520 will go up for sale in China on January 21, selling for what works out to just $225. For that money, you'll get an Android 4.x handset built around a quad-core SoC. Unfortunately, this isn't any ...

This year's Consumer Electronics Show from Las Vegas has come and gone. As usual, we've been both on-site bringing you coverage from events as well as the show floor, and here on Pocketnow, keeping you up to date with what's going on in the mobile world. For some the show has been excellent; for others it has been a letdown. We can't compare CES to a specialized mobile event like MWC (maybe with IFA); still, our experience from past years has taught us to expect certain things to happen at CES. They might or might not have happened in a straightforward way but there was a lot of innovation ...

Veni, vidi, vici! We were looking forward to CES 2013, pretty much like we're always looking forward to trade shows where there's a possibility of seeing new and exciting things from and related to the mobile world. Good or bad as it was, this year's Vegas show is just one of many to come and, probably the biggest problem related to CES is the fact that it is followed shortly by MWC, a show related to mobile and only mobile. We're seeing companies slowly moving away from shows to announce their gadgets, following Apple's lead, but even those companies who are show-centric have probably ...

Huawei put on a pretty nice CES showing, and even managed to get us a bit excited about some of what it has planned for the future. We had already heard that the company was coming out with its own A15-based SoC later on this year, and now the company's Consumer Business Group CEO, Richard Yu, adds that Huawei has its eye on an eight-core chip, just like we recently saw Samsung announce. Besides being an eight-core design, the only other detail that's been shared so far is that the chip would use A15 cores. We don't yet know if that means that half the cores would be A15s, like in the ...

Huawei's really been stepping-up its game at this year's CES, and between the Ascend D2, Mate, and W1, there's a decent chance that at least one of the company's new offerings has managed to intrigue you. We're already finding ourselves looking beyond even those brand-new smartphones to what the company could have next, after hearing about the company's pending move to A15-based HiSilicon K3V3 SoCs. There's little doubt that A15 is going to be huge this year; we've already seen what it can do for the Nexus 10, and as more chip manufacturers incorporate it into their designs, we'll get to ...

Huawei's first Windows Phone 8 handset, the Ascend W1, missed the company's big event yesterday, and after leaving us wondering what was going on, we ended up seeing Huawei finally announce the phone today. Now that's it out there, we decided to spend a little hands-on time with the phone. The W1 is most assuredly not a high-end Windows Phone 8 device, with specs like 512MB of RAM, a WVGA screen, and an only-VGA front-facing camera. While it's not going to wow anyone with those, it still has a nice design to it, certainly reminiscent of some of HTC's efforts. We also found the screen to be ...