Physical Impressions from the Huawei Ascend D Quad
by Brian Klug on February 28, 2012 12:29 PM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- Huawei
- Mobile
- MWC 2012
- Ascend D Quad
We headed over to the Huawei booth to check out the Ascend D Quad and get some photos of the device and some physical impressions. The device includes Huawei's own HiSilicon K3V2 SoC which consists of a quad core Cortex A9 running at 1.2 GHz (4 cores), 1.5 GHz (1 core), and "16 core" graphics from an unknown IP vendor. The phone also packs a 720p 4.5" LCD display which looked awesome in person.
It's clear that Huawei has come a really long way in the build quality department, as the Ascend D Quad feels very good in the hand and like something at the high end of any other Android smartphone vendor. The styling is superficially close to Samsung's SGS2, and includes a bulge at the bottom with speakerphone and camera centered at the top. The backside has a repeating visual appearance but a smooth soft-touch surface. Huawei is definitely going for the high end market with a vengeance, and I found myself impressed with how far their designs have come since their first Android handsets.
More: Huawei PR
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
6 Comments
View All Comments
jjj - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link
any clue about at least the process the CPU is made on? ReplyJNo - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link
Where I'm from, the primary meaning of "backside" is a person's arse. Although it is the correct word, just saying, "the phone's back" might not elicit such a laugh! :)Not sure what a 'repeating' visual appearance is...
On a more serious note, is it quad core or single core? Or quad core at 1.2ghz but a single core on its own can go to 1.5ghz? Reply
minhajmsd - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link
I think there are 4 cores at 1.2 Ghz and also a fifth core at 1.5 Ghz. ReplyKumouri - Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - link
I'm pretty sure it's 1.2GHz when 4 cores are used, and 1.5GHz on 1 core. So if you are only using 1 core, it will be 1.5GHz, but if you start using a second core it'll go down to 1.2GHz. Replysamismad - Saturday, March 3, 2012 - link
it's 40mm cortex A9, quad core, 1.5Ghz for each of them, max.main source : http://www.hisilicon.com/news/news/k3v2_20120226.h...
the d quad may introduce this k3v2 at 1.2Ghz, battery 1800mAh, while the d quad xl version may run at 1.5Ghz, with a better 2500mAh battery.
the cpu will be a "tegra3 killer", the gpu is a 16-core chipset that performs "twice the other high-end chipsets"... Beyond huawei communication, we should benefit to wait... tests. Marketing is sometimes wrong, isn't it?
Then, what about the screen quality, will these phones be rootable, aso. Reply
nagar1234 - Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - link
Today we have learn how can remove all browser,chrome and Firefox history, http://deletebrowsinghistory.net/ so here the all solution,then it is very simple process,firstly, open your browser then click the right side 3 doth option,and select the history or finally your entire all search data open a new file then click the Clear Browsing Data option. Reply