Huawei Ascend P1 review: Up and comers

Huawei Ascend P1 is one of the headliners in the company's growing portfolio of Android. But China is not only growing droid, they fix them. Ascend P1 is not even the best they have, but it sends a clear message that Huawei means business. Large-screened smart phone offers a 7.7mm thin chassis in enough technology to go after some big names in the game.

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Huawei Ascend official P1 Photo

P1 Ascend is one of the thinnest droids out there and P1 version of S will be a full millimeter thinner. No doubt the 4.3 "QHD super AMOLED screen (as seen in the Motorola RAZR and HTC XT910 One S) helps achieve amazing slim waist.

The computing power comes courtesy of dual-core 1.5GHz processor and PowerVR SGX540 graphics, which is more than enough to make the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS chugging along smoothly.

You can quickly get acquainted with the P1 Ascend through our list of features and weaknesses below.
The main feature

    7.7mm thin body
    Quad-band GSM and penta-band 3G with HSPA support
    4.3 "16M-color capacitive AMOLED touchscreen Super QHD resolution (540 x 960 pixels)
    Android OS v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
    Two home screen options - vanilla and 3D
    Dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, GPU PowerVR SGX540, TI OMAP 4460 chipset
    4GB inbuilt storage (2.3GB user available)
    8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash and geo-tagging
    1080p @ 30fps video recording
    Wi-Fi b / g / n and DLNA, hotspot function
    GPS with A-GPS
    slot microSD, up to 32GB
    Accelerometer and proximity sensor
    Standard 3.5 mm audio jack; Dolby Mobile 3.0 +
    Stereo FM radio with RDS
    Mhl-enabled microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v3.0
    Front facing camera

The main disadvantage

    There is no dedicated camera button
    No call out of the box video
    Non-user-replaceable battery
    PenTile matrix display
    Prices do not fall

Huawei Ascend 8MP camera from P1 can shoot 1080p video, but knows other tricks as well and will be stepping foot Samsung and HTC. You get things like HDR, burst mode and even mode of the group, which took several shots and pick the best expressions on everyone's faces (such as Scalado solutions powered HTC uses).

However, unlike either Samsung or HTC, Huawei Android experience of ICS stock offering, with only some occasional tweak. If it's not your cup of tea there is also launching a 3D house to offer additional eye candy and usability enhancements.

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Huawei Ascend to our P1

Challenging the establishment is no easy task, but P1 Huawei Ascend ready to make a splash in the mid-range. The first step is a solid hardware - jump to the next page for details.