Review and Detail Specification of Huawei Ascend II

Competing in smartphone market, Huawei comes up with its new smartphone namely Huawei Ascend II. It may not the best smartphone, but it can be an alternative smartphone you can choose when you have low budget. Its main features include 600 MHz processor, Android Gingerbread OS, 5 megapixels camera, GPS, Bluetooth and many more. Given below is the review and detail specification of Ascend II for your references.

Huawei Ascend II appears as a full touch screen phone made out of glossy plastic. Along with its glossy looks, it also comes in contrasting color black and with; the front side and around phone’s side are colored in black while the back side is in white. Thanks to its plastic material chassis that the phone fells very light weighing 120 grams in the dimension of 117 x 61 x 13 mm. The front side is resided by 3.5 inches capacitive touchscreen with 320 x 480 pixels resolution and 256K colors support. Nothing special concerning the screen as it is considered as a standard resolution screen for lower end smartphones.

Huawei Ascend II

Under the hood, Huawei Ascend II is supported by 600 MHz processor with 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM. Meanwhile, all of the phone’s applications run on Android OS v2.3 (Gingerbread) with Android custom user interface. Ascend II is a CDMA smartphone that already supports CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A up to 3.1 Mbps data network. Experiencing internet surfing, there is built-in web browser that comes with WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, and Adobe Flash support. Other connectivity includes Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and EDR, and microUSB v2.0 connection. Furthermore, there is also GPS navigation system with A-GPS support.

In camera feature, Huawei Ascend II is equipped by 5 megapixels camera with no flash. It manage to capture images up to 2592 х 1944 pixels resolution but still in average quality. It can also be functioned as a camcorder that share similar quality. Storing the data, Ascend II features 160 MB of internal memory. If that is not enough, there is additional external memory up to 32 GB via microSD card. For multimedia, Ascend II is supported by standard stock Android media player for playing music and videos. The media player manages to play music coming in MP3/WAV/eAAC+ formats while the video player supports video in MP4/H.263/H.264 formats.

Messaging features include SMS (threaded view), MMS, Instant Messaging, and Email. Text input can only be done using virtual on screen keyboard that appears in full QWERTY keyboard on both portrait and landscape view. As any other Android smartphone, Ascend II comes with pre-loaded Google service applications such as Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, and Google Talk. You can also download other Andriod applications via Android market. Other features provided include SNS Integration, Organizer, Photo Viewer and Editor, Document Viewer, Voice Memo, Voice Dial, Java MIDP Emulator, Accelerometer, and Loudspeaker. Last but not least, Huawei Ascend II is powered by Standard battery, Li-Ion 1400 mAh that is rated up to 300 hours of standby time or 3 hours 40 minutes of talk time.