Huawei has decided to take Apple and Samsung head on in the smartphone market with its latest phone, called the Ascend P7. The Chinese-based company is really aiming at the sleek and trendy crowd with the phone's design that can really be dubbed the "Android iPhone."
It comes with a 5" display, HD image quality, an 8-megapixel camera, and a battery life that will last you up to 6.5 hours or more. It is also incredibly slim, even slimmer than the iPhone 5S and Samsung Galaxy S5 and includes 2GB of RAM and a quad-core 1.8GHz.
The phone currently costs $625 without a wireless carrier subsidy. However, if you live outside of China, then you will have to wait a while to get your hands on one. Huawei plans on unleashing it outside China in more than 30 countries sometime in early June.
However, this won't be the case in the U.S. The company isn't that popular or known in the country, although it hopes to change that soon. It still plans on releasing the phone but not until later in the summer.
It is interesting to see manufacturers outside of Japan and the U.S. make strides in phone design. There are a lot of mobile products coming out of China, but many are ripoffs or sometimes needlessly labeled as "cheap." This isn't always the case though, as this seems like a quality product.
The phone doesn't just take cues from Apple's designers when it comes to hardware and aesthetics. It also uses software implementations to match it.
The Ascend P7 runs a customized version of Android 4.4.2 KitKat with a Huawei interface called "EmotionUI." The interface is said to do away with Android's app grid and relies on icons just like iOS for each of the apps spread across home screens.
The handset comes with various pre-installed themes you can pick out of that change the interface's style with different icon layouts. One of them apparently matches iOS7 and it is called "Dream."
Let's hope it reaches the U.S. shorefront soon because it seems like a unique phone in both design and function. It can be the perfect phone for secret Apple admirers who refuse to purchase its products out of loyalty to Android or spite for its locked-in nature.
Here is a list of markets it is currently available in for purchase: China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Serbia, Greece, Norway, Hungary, Denmark, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
