After being one of the biggest phone manufacturers in Asia region, Huawei continues its invasion to US market by unveiling the Huawei Activa 4G through the MetroPCS. The vendor claimed that this Android smartphone has been designed to make the life of users simpler by combining all of the technologies that they love on a single device. So now, let’s have a look at the below technical specs overview of this handset to determine whether it has what it takes to compete with other 4G-capable smartphone in US.
Design, Dimension and Display
When it’s viewed from the front side, the Activa 4G has the typical slate touch smartphone with the chrome accent surrounding the entire body. The device measures 4.8 inches in height, 2.42 inches in width, and 0.42 inches in thickness and it weighs about 4.93 oz. The screen measures 3.5†HVGA capacitive and below the display you can see the four touch-sensitive buttons including home, menu, back and search function. But in my opinion there’s a bit wasted space between the display and those buttons whereas it can be used for the bigger screen size.
Hardware and OS
In terms of hardware specs, you will discover that there is nothing impressive about this smartphone since it still boasts the slower 800 Mhz Qualcomm MSM7627T processor. With this hardware, you will be given the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) which is apparently not upgradeable to the latest Ice Cream Sandwich. Knowing these specs, the handset can categorized as the mid-range Android smartphone but it has been added with 4G capability. For storing data files, there will be the internal memory of 151 MB along with the external memory support of up to 32 GB. When you buy this handset through the MetroPCS (online), you will get the 4 GB microSD card with the Kungfu Panda 2 movie pre-loaded.
Battery
Towards the power supplier, the phone has been bundled with the standard battery which has the capacity of 1880 mAh. The company claimed that this battery can last for up to 105 hours and it will provide the talk time of about 3.3 hours.
Other Features
This smartphone will work just fine when it’s used for watching videos, surfing the web, downloading apps, taking pictures and so forth. Users can use the mediocre 5 megapixels camera with single LED flash and it can be functioned as the video recorder. There will be also the VGA front facing camera, Wi-Fi, MP3 player, Bluetooth and Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) capability included in this smartphone.
Price, Pros and Cons
The original price of Huawei Activa 4G is about $250 but if you purchase it via MetroPCS you can get it for about $150 (after discount and Mail-In rebate). The advantages of having this smartphone are the 4G LTE capability, decent battery life along with the pre-loaded Kungfu Panda 2 movie. But since it’s a mid-range smartphone, you will not get the impressive processor, RAM and camera. Moreover, it will be more pleasant if this handset has been equipped with the bigger screen size so that there will be no wasted space between the display and the touch control buttons. [IS]
