Huawei's smartphones have always seemed to fall just short of the high-end, but now, with the Ascend P7, Huawei has finally launched a quality smartphone with both brains and beauty. The Huawei Ascend P7 has an iPhone-like design and offers an interesting, customizable version of Android that looks and feels like iOS 7.
If you're someone who loves Android, but wishes for a more beautiful, iPhone-like design, you'll want to look twice at the Huawei Ascend P7. It features a slim, unibody design with aluminum edging and a crisp, 1080p, 5-inch display. The Ascend P7 has a seven-layer glass back with an interested textured design peeking out beneath a few layers of shining glass. It's a thin smartphone, at just 6.5-millimeters thick and it isn't very wide either, in spite of it's large display.
The iPhone-like features don't end with the hardware, but cross over into Huawei's customized version of the Android OS: Emotion UI. This time around, Huawei updated the Emotion UI with several design elements that draw heavily from Apple's iOS 7. There is no traditional Android app drawer, so app icons range across multiple screens just like on iOS. Additionally, there are multiple design themes to choose from and one of them, called Dream, transforms the app icons into brightly colored, flat UI style icons that bear a strong resemblance to those on iOS 7.
Over all, the aesthetic experience you get with the Huawei Ascend P7 is about as close to an iPhone as you can get with an Android smartphone.
In terms of hardware, the Ascend P7 has all the high-end specs you'd expect. Notably, the Ascend P7 features an 8-megapixel front-facing camera that was designed specifically for taking selfies and what Huwei is calling "groufies." The smartphone also has a nice 13-megapixel back camera. The Ascend P7 is powered by a 1.8GHz, quad-core processor and features a 2500 mAh battery. Huawei gave the Ascend P7 4G LTE connectivity, too.
Unfortunately, Huawei won't be selling the Ascend P7 is the United States anytime soon. The smartphone will arrive in Europe and Asia this June for $625 unlocked.
