#huawei p1

The first time I saw the Ascend P1 was over a month ago when I was having lunch with folks from Huawei Philippines. During the last Huawei event, I managed to borrow the handset for a closer look. If Huawei is going to position this as their next midrange smartphone once they release this in the Philippines along with the Ascend D Quad, it should be a very promising one. It's also running ICS and that Emotion UI which we saw in the Huawei Honor and Ascend Y200 looks clean and fluid (Huawei's design team is based in Europe and their engineering team is based in the US). I am told that Huawei will release the Ascend P1 in the Philippines some time in September. They still don't have a suggested retail price for this but if they will listen to me again (the same way they accepted my suggested for the SRP of the Y200), then I'd say put the SRP in the vicinity of Php18k and folks will see it as a good deal (since the Huawei Honor is in the 14k range). Huawei makes some of the most interesting little gadgets around and when I visited their booth at CommunicAsia yesterday, they've got a dozens of Pocket WiFi and USB sticks for all sorts of cellular network on display. Read more in our articles including "Huawei Ascend P1 first impression" and "Huawei's new 4G/LTE Pocket WiFi line-up".