Huawei Ascend is a $150 contract-free Android smartphone

Posted by Charbax – October 6, 2010

Nice to see the low cost Android phones reaching pre-paid providers in the USA and around the world. Huawei is delivering this Android 2.2 compatible 3.5″ capacitive Android smartphone to US based pre-paid carrier Cricket. It’s contract-free but it’s probably still locked to only work on Cricket’s network.

This video was released at: engadget.com

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  • Warrenbzf

    I wonder if it has Google Marketplace?

    Pretty awesome either way. Hope Cricket succeeds and gets lots of customers. We need to throw out the incumbents :-)

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