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Huawei Ascend W1 Arrives At CES 2013
[CES 2013] In the madness covering the press conferences at CES yesterday, we have managed to uncover a few new devices from Huawei, where among them include the Windows Phone 8-powered Huawei Ascend W1. Yes sir, the Ascend W1 is no pushover when it comes to hardware specifications, but then again, neither is it going to be a powerhouse and top the list of flagship Windows Phone 8 devices, either. For starters, the 10.15mm thin Ascend W1 will come with a 4-inch IPS LCD 480 x 800 touchscreen with OGS Technology, run on a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8230 processor and accompanied by the Adreno 305 GPU, all being handled by a 1950 mAh battery that ought to deliver decent battery life for a day’s work, as is the norm with most of the other smartphones out there.
No idea on pricing or availability Stateside, as the Huawei Ascend W1 has been scheduled to be released in China and Russia first later this month, although it is set to arrive in Western Europe, Middle East, USA and other selected countries in due time. [Press Release]
It is quite a feeling to have a smartphone getting the latest operating system update up and running, that is for sure. After all, you can never quite tell just what kind of goodies that your handset would receive now, can you? Those who are rocking to a Windows Phone 8.1 device might be looking forward to spending Christmas with a Windows 10 Mobile update but it seems that such hopes will have to be shelved for the moment.
It seems that there will be no Windows 10 update arriving this month as originally speculated, and the time frame itself has been altered, being even more vague in nature – where it has been mentioned to be “early next year”, which could jolly well mean any time, even in April. Looks like patience needs to be had in boatloads here.
So, you are still rocking to the Xiaomi Mi 4 and are more than happy with the device, right? Well, how about enjoying an operating system upgrade when December 3rd rolls around? This is what will happen to the Xiaomi Mi 4, where it has been teased by Xiaomi’s Founder and President Lin Bin on Weibo, citing the December 3rd date. I suppose it is encouraging to take note that this bit arrives close to nine months after Microsoft and Xiaomi came to an agreement, where there would be support for the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Mi 4 handset.
Just in case you were wondering, there is another device from Xiaomi which will rock to the Windows 10 OS, and that would be the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet, with that particular device arriving in a 64GB memory configuration alongside an asking price of $205 thereabouts.
Trivia lovers, here is something that might just pique your interest. After all, don’t you wish you had all sorts of information at your fingertips? Windows Phone lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a leak concerning information about the Windows Phone Store, and such information can be said to be ‘ancient”, as it dates back all the way to October 2011 with the introduction of Windows Phone 7.5.
So far, the most popular downloaded app happens to be Facebook with more than 112 million installations – no surprise there at all, I suppose. WhatsApp is behind Facebook considerably at 92 million downloads, while OneDrive has 62.5 million downloads. Located close to the bottom of the food chain would be PayPal that picked up a mere 1.6 million downloads all this while, and 2.5 million for Telegraph.
Third party apps as well as games have had their fair share of hits, too, like Tube HD that handles the playback of YouTube videos with more than 13 million downloads. Of course, these figures would pale in comparison to what Android and iOS platforms have garnered all this while.