{"id":53291,"date":"2012-06-22T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T09:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=53291"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:16:36","slug":"huawei-ascend-p1-gets-sa-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/53291-huawei-ascend-p1-gets-sa-launch-date.html","title":{"rendered":"Huawei Ascend P1 gets SA launch date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huawei announced last night (22 June 2012) that the Huawei Ascend P1 will be available\u00a0in South Africa through Vodacom by July 7th, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom will have exclusivity on the device for a month, after which it should be available on MTN, Huawei said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are sending strong signals of our intention to transform into a consumer-facing brand and extend our market leadership by strengthening our range of flagship products,\u201d said Leo Wang, managing director of Huawei Devices for the Eastern &amp; Southern Africa Region.<\/p>\n<p>The device has the following technical specifications according to Huawei:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dimensions: 7.69mm x 64.8mm x 129mm<\/li>\n<li>4.3-inch super AMOLED 960 x 540 touch screen with Corning\u00ae Gorilla\u00ae Glass<\/li>\n<li>Dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 Cortext-A9 processor<\/li>\n<li>1GB RAM and 4GB ROM<\/li>\n<li>SGX 540 graphic processor<\/li>\n<li>Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS<\/li>\n<li>1670mAh battery<\/li>\n<li>5.1 surround sound with Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus<\/li>\n<li>8-megapixel BSI rear-facing camera with AF and Dual LED Flash, 1080p HD video capture, HDR effect optimisation<\/li>\n<li>1.3-megapixel HD front-facing camera, 720p video capture<\/li>\n<li>Wi-Fi 802.11b\/g\/n, Bluetooth 3.0, supports UMTS 5 Bands 850\/900\/AWS\/1900\/2100MHz and GSM 4 Bands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53295\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53295\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53295\" title=\"Huawei Ascend P1 press shot\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Huawei-Ascend-P1-press-shots.jpg\" alt=\"Huawei Ascend P1 press shot\" width=\"560\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Huawei-Ascend-P1-press-shots.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Huawei-Ascend-P1-press-shots-100x64.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Huawei-Ascend-P1-press-shots-185x119.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Huawei-Ascend-P1-press-shots-250x161.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huawei Ascend P1<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Huawei also highlighted the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MHL-HDMI connections<\/li>\n<li>Dual microphone noise reduction<\/li>\n<li>DLNA support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asked about the price of the device, Huawei said that it would vary between countries but expect it to be priced at around R5,499 in South Africa at launch. Vodacom announced in a press statement today that the smartphone will be available on a 24 month Business Call contract at R279.00 per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are optimistic that the Ascend will be a popular choice among consumers and will contribute to our overall 2012 sales targets of 20 million smartphones in 2012,\u201d a Huawei spokesperson told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Huawei MediaPad 7-inch Tablet PC review \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/49527-huawei-mediapad-7-inch-tablet-pc-review.html\"><strong>Huawei MediaPad 7-inch Tablet PC review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smartphone sales to hit 1 billion in 2014 \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/47668-smartphone-sales-to-hit-1-billion-in-2014.html\"><strong>Smartphone sales to hit 1 billion in 2014<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Android more popular than Apple in China \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/47442-android-more-popular-than-apple-in-china.html\"><strong>Android more popular than Apple in China<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Huawei targets enterprise space with mobile road show \" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/45762-huawei-targets-enterprise-space-with-mobile-road-show.html\"><strong>Huawei targets enterprise space with mobile road show<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A low-cost 1.5GHz dual core Android ICS device from Huawei will be launched in SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":53293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,397,11773,5434,167,1982,12759],"class_list":["post-53291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-android","tag-android-4-0","tag-android-ice-cream-sandwich","tag-google","tag-huawei","tag-huawei-ascend-p1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53297,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53291\/revisions\/53297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}