We just spent a few minutes with Huawei’s Ascend Q , a low-end Android handset with one very special feature that sets it apart: it’s a portrait QWERTY model, still a sad rarity in the smartphone market. Its 3.2-inch HVGA display washes out easily and has a full millimeter of gap between the glass and the display element itself, so users will pretty quickly identify this as a cheap device if they’ve spent any time with an iPhone or virtually any AMOLED — but we imagine Cricket will be looking to price it aggressively when it launches in August (we’re told it could be on shelves as early as July 31st). The keyboard — which features ridges on each key that curve away from the middle — is surprisingly easy to use considering the… Continue reading…

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Huawei Ascend Q for Cricket hands-on

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