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Huawei’s D1 Quad now available in China for $425 unsubsidized

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Following the MediaPad 10 FHD quad-core tablet, Huawei’s also starting to sell another device powered by its very own HiSilicon K3V2 (Hi3620) chip. Over the weekend, the Ascend D1 Quad (formerly without the “1″ in the name) joins the familiar-looking…


Huawei Ascend D1 hits the FCC with pentaband HSPA+

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Of the trio of Huawei’s Diamond-class smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress in February, the dual-core Ascend D1 got the least amount of buzz. Today, however, the handset gets its opportunity to bask in the spotlight, since it’s the first of…


Hands on with Huawei’s Ascend D smartphones

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Huawei is making quite a splash at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The company announced one quad-core handset — the Ascend D quad, which is built on the company’s proprietary in-house processor platform — in addition to a dual-core TI OMAP-based device, the Ascend D1. We got a chance to play with both models and, especially in the case of the D quad, we left quite impressed. These things move fast. Really fast. What’s more, these handsets mark Huawei’s entry into the chip making game, and place the company in direct competition with other smartphone vendors that moonlight as chip makers, like Samsung and Apple. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the coming year. That


Huawei outs Ascend D Quad: 4.5-inch 720p display, Dolby 5.1, 1.5GHz K3V2 CPU

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We’d seen some prior leaks, but aside from poorly translated marketing jargon, Huawei’s managed to keep its latest and greatest smartphone under wraps — until now, that is. The device is being billed as the “world’s fastest quad-core smartphone” with…