Huawei Singapore announced the availability of two new smartphones today – the Huawei Honor and the Huawei Vision.

Huawei Honor

The Huawei Honor (U8860) will be shipped with the latest Android Gingerbread OS and features a 16M 16:9 true color high-definition (HD) 4-inch Full Wide VGA capacitive touch screen. Powered by a 1,900 mAh battery, Huawei Honor frees consumers from the inconvenience of searching for an electricity source, allowing them to share and connect for up to three days1 on a single charge – the longest battery life among smartphones in the 4-inch screen range.

The Huawei Honor will be available in Singapore from 16 December at a recommended retail price of $528 (without GST)

Huawei Vision

TheHuawei Vision (U8850) will feature the brand’s stunning 3D user interface and carousel animation display. The device features a 3.7” capacitive touchscreen and has an aluminium alloy uni-body in silver, and crystal sculptural curve lens for great touch feel. Vision measures only 9.9mm at its thinnest point and weighs only 135g. Huawei Vision was most recently awarded the iF Design Award 2012 for its immaculate design.

The Huawei Vision is available at authorised retailers from today at a recommended retail price of $438 (without GST).

Which mobile phones and tablets to see at CommunicAsia 2011 ?

CommunicAsia 2011 will be held in Singapore from 21 to 24 June in Singapore. This year, we will see less mobile phone manufacturers participating in this event.

Samsung is out as it has it’s own trade show held annually. LG also pulled out since 2010.

Sony Ericsson will not be participating at the CommunicAsia as usual. Instead it will have it’s own media event on the 2nd day of CommunicAsia. They have invited regional media and there are already rumours that they will be launching a dual core Android powerhouse. So, far details are sketchy but we will soon know in the coming days.

Nokia which held Nokia Connections event yearly is back in a big way at the event though. Will Nokia be announcing showcasing their phones based on Windows Phone 7.

As usual the two biggest Chinese players, Huawei and ZTE should be there and they might be showing more tablets based on Android as that is in the in thing right now.

Stay tuned at OCWORKBENCH in the coming days for more.

There is a new tablet up Huawei’s sleeve, though it’s still some time before the tablet gets to see the light of day. The Chinese electronics major has chosen the CommunicAsia 2011 event to launch the tablet they have named the ‘MediaPad’. The CommunicAsia 2011 event gets underway in Singapore from June 21st to 24th.

As for the MediaPad, Huawei isn’t spilling all the beans just yet, though the naming of the tablet is perhaps an indication of it having enhanced entertainment features. Huawei is already calling the MediaPad the “smartest, smallest and lightest tablet” ever to come out of the Huawei stable, something that they believe is “guaranteed to transform the consumer’s entertainment experience.”

The tablet has a clear frontal layout with complete absence of any buttons, which perhaps is an indication of it running Honeycomb. The tablet also seems to have a 7 inch display (or maybe even 5 inch) so that if the above two assumptions turn out to be true, the MediaPad will be an interesting addition to the small 7 inch Honeycomb segment. No word either if the tablet is a completely new development or further enhancement of its S7 tablet range, though the former seems to be more possible.

So stay tuned as more comes out on the MediPad in the coming days.

Huawei IDEOS Android 2.2 Smartphone
Bluetooth 11 Oct 2010

Huawei, a Chinese company made famous for it’s HSDPA dongles now brings the most affordable smartphone to the masses. Named “IDEOS”, this 2.8″ capacitive touch screen phone features the Android 2.2 Froyo ahead of other competitors in the market.

The Huawei IDEOS has been designed to be an entry level budget Android phone for the masses. This is probably you see a plastic backplate which you can replace with different colours. Although it looks pretty small, it is big in functions. Featuring a slower 528MHz processor, it is able to be used as a smartphone, a WiFi Access point. It also has a 3.2 megapixel camera which takes pictures. There is also accelerometer sensors built in for viewing text/images in both portrait and landscape mode.

The IDEOS also supports functions such as voice dialing, voice navigation, and the ability to run applications off the MicroSD memory card with the App2SD feature. With more than 70,000 applications available in Android Market,  IDEOS provides a wide range of communication, entertainment, and office and financial management applications.

Hardware Specifications of IDEOS

Standards

Display

Camera
Internal Memory
External Memory
Interfaces

Battery

Built-in Applications

Color
Dimensions (L× W× H)
Weight

* Adobe Flash Lite will be provided via Auto Update in November, 2010.

UMTS: 2100/1900/850/1700MHz
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900MHz
HSDPA 7.2Mb/s
2.8-inch QVGA (320 x 240) TFT Capacitive touch
screen
262K colors
Auto rotate (gravity sensor)
3.2Megapixel camera
256MB RAM + 512MB ROM
Support up to 32GB MicroSD memory card
USB port: Standard Micro USB
MicroSD memory card slot
SIM/USIM card: Standard 6-pin SIM card interface,
supporting 1.8/3V USIM card
1,200mAh rechargeable lithium battery
Working time: 5 hours max
Stand-by time: 300 hours max
Google Search?, Google Maps?, Google Calendar?,
Google Sync?, Android Market?, Gmail?, etc.
Adobe Flash Lite*
Blue, Black, Yellow, Purple
104 × 54.8 × 13.5mm
Approx. 100 grams (with battery)

Huawei will launch own brand Google Android 2.2 phone Huawei U8150 in September 2010

The device comes pre-installed with Android 2.2 (one of the first to come out of the box with 2.2), with the hardware designed to be 100% compatible with 2.2.

The product was jointly planned and developed with Google and brings a wealth of Google options, downlink speeds of more than 7.2Mb/s, ubiquitous mobile broadband services. It also functions as a Wi-Fi router.

This new smartphone will be announced on September 2nd, 2010 in Germany. The product will be launched in Hong Kong early September.

It will be highly competitive price-wise and comes in 4 colours -  Black, purple, blue and yellow targeting the youth.

From our sources, this phone intends to be a mass market phone, it will be priced quite competitively at around HKD 2000 (USD 258, SGD 350, Euro 203, UKP 166) without contract.

* Specifications

Dimensions 104×54.8×13.5mm
Frequency UMTS Radio Interface:
EDGE/GSM/GPRS: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
UMTS 900/AWS/2100MHz or UMTS 850/1700/1900/2100MHz
HSDPA 7.2Mbps
Display 2.8” QVGA (320×240) TFT Capacitive Touch
262K colors
Auto rotate (G-sensor)
Camera 3.2 Megapixel Camera FF
Sensor Proximity Sensor
Ambient light sensor
Color Black, purple, blue and yellow

Features
Home Screen: Android Home screen
Local Search: Google Search
Tools: Key Lock / Alarm clock / Calculator / Settings / Note pad
Call service: Voice call
Supplementary Service: Voice mail
Google Mobile Suite:
Google Search, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google sync and Android
Market
Digital Compass: Support digital compass base on Android
Sound Recording: Audio format: AMR
Other
Applications
Google Maps, Google Search, Gmail etc.