After spending a little time with the Ascend P6 getting it set up with our accounts and apps, we have to say we’re quite impressed with the build quality. This is a big step up over some of its offerings last year, and even over what it announced just at CES in January. It is incredibly thin and relatively light as well, without feeling cheap or flimsy and the use of different metals along with small plastic accents is quite nice. The display also looks crisp and bright despite only being 720p (although the resolution is quite acceptable at 4.7-inches), and the device is overall refreshingly small compared to the ballooning sizes of recent handsets.
This thing is going places. Huawei is advertising it all over the country on national TV here in The Netherlands, and it’s being pushed by retail chains. The next Samsung won’t be American or European, but Chinese.
… not that surprising, really. The current Samsung isn’t either.
I thought Samsung was the next Nokia.
Samsung is the next Apple:
http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-industry-profit-share-201…
Samsung is the next King of the Hill. Until the next disruption.
Take it from Microsoft, Nokia, and BlackBerry.
Huawei are quite sloppy with Android updates. The Ascend G600 – a decent mid-range phone released 6 months after Jelly Bean runs on Ice Cream Sandwich.
And it will not be receiving any updates.
And it probably comes complete with backdoors to the chinese gov spooks.
The Chinese made iPhone is of course completely backdoor free.
That wouldn’t be that easy, they get software and chip designs down to gate level from Apple.
Planting something to that that Apple engineers wouldn’t notice is nearly impossible… nearly.
Impossible to hide something among more than 200 million transistors?
Really?
Only reference to a transistor count estimate I could find was at:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20100727/184585/?P=2
Check out a few intentional IC easter eggs:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/
yeah because Apple doesn’t work with the NSA…whoops wait,
I think everyone will just need to assume that all providers are now working with a government agency of some kind. US, UK, Germany, China etc..
While they’ve got a couple of things right, they’ve got some dead wrong too:
http://stevelitchfield.com/sshow/ss206.html
If you buy that you’re going to lose that plug; accept that, plan for that.
I bought a lot of Chinese phones and tablets through Aliexpress, Banggood or Pandawill, (Lenovo, Oppo, Hero and Window) for me and friends. I am satisfied both about build quality and price.
You have to read lots of reviews before you buy a less known chinese Android device.
But I would read reviews anyway, even if I would consider just Samsung, HTC and Sony to buy phones.
i just bought an Idol X, from TCL brand (a.k.a. alcatel), and let ma say it: is awesome,
a little better than ascend p6 and a lot cheaper than big boys (galaxy s4, htc one,lg g2, etc.)
watch out! chinese brands are coming to domain the smartphone market…
Another phone that only lasts a day or less. Fsck it.