Huawei Ascend gets dated for SA

This is not 'low cost' especially for a Huawei.
sure the specs are impressive but its not a Samsung or an iPad.
 
Like saying a Hyundai Sonata is low cost and value etc etc then pricing it at 5 series levels...The cheek.I understand Huawei has come a long way but...nah, i'll take the 5 series.
 
Shayd said:
Wtf would I buy this over an S2?
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Why indeed. The only real (meaningful) differences come down to the screen res bump and native ICS ..we're not going to get wildly excited about a hair over one millimeter thinner, are we? :cool:

But nor is that the whole story: that screen is *gorgeous* - yes, it's not the same resolution as the new superphones but neither is it the same price. And, to hold and behold, it amounts to a mini-slab as jewellery; it's really beautifully put together. Two caveats though: it's uSIM only and you get it as a monolithic block - you feed it SIM and SD via the respective slots and you never get to open it up.

So, for all that someone it [-]bullshitting[/-] "marketing" it as "low cost", that may be true - at least for suitable values of "as much as we can get away with".
 
It's like 2K less than comparative phones from the power brands so what on earth are you people on about?

Do you lot honestly think that just because it's not one of the more established brands you should be getting all that premium power for the price of a mid-range to entry level smartphone? It doesn't work like that.
 
SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
It's like 2K less than comparative phones from the power brands so what on earth are you people on about?

Do you lot honestly think that just because it's not one of the more established brands you should be getting all that premium power for the price of a mid-range to entry level smartphone? It doesn't work like that.
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A galaxy S2 is only R5400. Not that big a premium bud.
 
SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
Launch man, Launch price. The Galaxy S2 was not 5400 when it launched.
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But schumi, nobody is queuing up for this phone and it's internals are almost a year old. For all intents and purposes it could be an S2. There is no "launch premium" with a phone like this.

Especially from a company with 0 brand appeal currently.
 
Here. Huawei is definitely stronger elsewhere.
And perhaps it's internals are old but it still murders everything mid-range.
 
But midrange doesn't cost 5400, that is where high end starts.
 
SCHUMI-4-EVA said:
And it is high-end.
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Priced at the same level as the htc one s which is a lower higher end model compared to pure high ends like one x and s3 and middle high end like the xperia s and specced similar too...in fact the one s has a newer krait cpu.

Huawei makes good products no doubt,but they need to be competitive with the price for now until they get a name to break into the upper regions of the market.
 
at first when 'low cost' was mentioned I thought it was about 1 or 2 000 ZARS, yoooh but this ae noooh
 
But there's more to it than that; the Ascend is, going mostly by resolution here, playing in the same tier as just-not flagship phones and it's good to see HOW it goes about its business - things like its camera trickery, dual microphones, FM radio (here the bloody RAZR falls utterly flat) come into play.

And then there's the price. On which, yes, they're trying it on to come in as high as they are ..but the market will ultimately decide where they belong. :cool:
 
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