Huawei MediaPad 7 Youth2 officially revealed as tablet-phone combo

Huawei has just taken the covers off its MediaPad 7 Youth2 tablet that also acts as a phone.

The 7-inch tablet comes with a 1024 x 600 (169ppi) resolution display on a 9.9mm thick frame that weighs in at 350g. On the power front it's pushing 1.2GHz with an MSM8X12 quad-core A7 and 1GB of RAM which should keep going for a while thanks to the 4100mAh battery.

The MediaPad 7 Youth2 is a rare breed, not only thanks to the odd name, but also because it can make 2G and 3G calls, just like your mobile. Insert Dom Jolly jokes here. Less impressive specs include 4GB storage which can be expanded to 32GB using microSD, Android 4.3 OS, HSPA+ as the fastest connection, plus 3-megapixel and 0.3-megapixel cameras.

Huawei has not announced a release date or price yet. From the specs you can expect an affordable price that'll be aimed at competing with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite.

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Huawei queitly launches Ascend P6 S with minor changes

Huawei quietly put out an S version of its super-thin Ascend P6 smartphone. The Huawei Ascend P6 S is 0.3 thicker, but still only goes as high as 6.5mm, though it has the same battery capacity of 2,000mAh.



The chipset has been bumped up a bit and now features a quad-core 1.6GHz processor (up from 1.5GHz). It’s not clear if it’s Huawei’s own chipset again, but there’s no LTE support either way. It’s a dual-SIM, dual-standby phone, the original P6 had a dual-SIM option.

The rest of the specs are identical - 4.7” LCD with 720p resolution (the display works with gloves), 2GB RAM, 16GB storage, 8MP main camera and a 5MP front-facing camera.

The Ascend P6 S runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with Emotion UI 2.0 on top. The phone is currently available on Vmall (Huawei’s own web store) and is available only on China Unicom.

The price is CNY 2,700 ($446 / €330), but is temporarily CNY 300 off (until tomorrow). This puts the price at the same level as the 8GB Ascend P6 (CNY 2,400). The regular price is the same as the Ascend Mate 2, which went on sale a couple of days ago.

Thanks to Prime leak for sending this in!

Source (in Chinese)

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Huawei announces dual-SIM B199 with 5.5" screen

Huawei announced the B199 dual-SIM Android smartphone as a successor to the A199, which debuted last April. Just like its predecessor the B199 has dual-SIM support with CDMA/GSM dual stand-by.

What's interesting is that the B199 packs a large 3,000 mAh battery that can be used to charge other devices (with a dedicated cable). The price of the B199 will be CNY1,999 or around $330.

The rest of the specs are a quad-core processor clocked at 1.6 GHz (this time on a Snapdragon chipset and not the home-made K3V2 CPU), 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of expandable storage, 5.5" 720p display, 13 MP back and 5 MP front-facing cameras.

The back cover of the Huawei B199 is metal-clad. The smartphone should begin selling in China on January 20 but there's no word on global availability.

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