They may have spelt the name wrong, but there's not much else to begrudge Huawei's newest smart phone, the Huawei Honor -- a 4-inch Android beastie that will apparently last for three days away from the mains.
That's right, thanks to a 1,900mAh battery, the Honor is set to offer three -- count 'em -- days of use without having to suckle on its power charger. It would be like owning a phone 10 years ago! High fives all around for progress.
Apart from competition-thrashing survivability, the Honor comes packing Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, and has an 8-megapixel camera with HDR features glued to the back, as well as a 2-megapixel snapper that faces your face.
It weighs 140g, and is 10.9mm thick, which isn't as thin or light as the iPhone 4 or the Samsung Galaxy S2, but should ensure this phone is still perfectly portable.
More excitingly, there's a monster 1.4GHz processor hiding inside the Honor, which should mean it fires up your Android apps with nary a delay, and will likely handle your demanding hi-def video with no stuttering.
A perfectly decent-looking Android mobile then, and looking a good deal fancier than the budget Huawei Blaze. It may have cooler components stashed inside, but we'd love for the Honor to be cheaper than the competition when it hits the UK in 2012.
Huawei used to make phones for networks to stick their own logos on, but now it's stepping out with its own brand, walking in the footsteps of the now-massive HTC. Can this Chinese company find the same kind of success?
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anonymous 26 September, 2011 13:22
I am 45 and currently use T Mobile's mini-pulse...by Huawei...was intending to upgrade to Samsungs Galaxy S...and will hold off for this release...! The Mobile pulse is very slow compared to an iphone...it's well built and gets the job done...very reliable budget communication...!
charlesharley 26 September, 2011 15:24
Underrated stuff, like this phone...
HarryMonmouth 26 September, 2011 16:37
This battery life is great but at the same time it is kind of sad to be getting excited about someone giving us what we should have had all along. This is 2011, we should have batteries that we only charge on Sunday evening before going back to work. This phone is better than the others in this field but it is still not good enough.
Dean Shepherd 26 September, 2011 17:05
We've already seen a couple of 1900mAh on the market....the atrix for one from motorola...and that thing doesnt have much better life than the top dogs on the market now, so I call "believe it when I see it" with the 'honors' battery life.
@HarryMonmouth
This maybe 2011, but as we all know, the tech itself for creating more powerful batteries is just not ready for consumer market in the demand we want at least to keep up with the rest of the tech thats advancing.
Hell look at it this way....back a few years ago, I an many others were getting just about a days use with the Nokia n95 with a fair amount of use.....now with MUCH larger screens, higher processors, higher ram...well higher everything....and we are still getting a day+ use out of them..
So I would say our battery tech is advancing, problem is, its not advancing as fast as we *WANT* but we constantly demand more especially by throwing terms like "its 2011 we should have more by now"...hell I'm guilty of this myself at times until you really look further into it.
David Wormley 26 September, 2011 19:34
The Galaxy S2 looks like an iPhone 4, but this is ridiculous.
anonymous 26 September, 2011 20:25
i have a huawei g7010 and it holds battery life for 3 days as well
Lee A Dorney 27 September, 2011 13:52
All the features a s.fone has and the batteries are a joke...all the big manu.s should sort this then carry on designing the phones..
squishysdomain 27 September, 2011 15:57
Most smart-phones have thrown the baby out with the bathwater - the Samsung Galaxy-S is a prime example its not smart and its certainly not a phone if you cannot rely on it to have enough charge to make a phone call when you really need it. I applaud HuaWei for understanding this but why not add another 2mm and another 20g to the phone and ship with a 3500mAh battery, then it would really last for the whole of a short business trip.
The last "Smart phone" I bought was the lousy battery life Samsung Omnia HD and I wont be wasting any more money on another toy until I am sure it will have the battery life I need to free myself from the wall wart.