Introducing a Budget Price HD (Huawei IDEOS X5 U8800)

China-based company Huawei has taken the Android market by storm at Singapore's CommunicAsia, sometimes nick-named the X5 U8800 aka Red Bull Mobile. And it even gets better; the much anticipated X5 U8800 retails at a cost you’d expect to pay three-times as much. In fact, if you've keenly gone through its spec sheet, you'll realize X5 has entrails equivalent to the HTC Desire Z; per se, we estimated the lion's share of the cost-cutting to come about around the Smartphone’s exterior, however it's not straight away visible which sections of the X5 U8800 are the inexpensive bits.
From the top to bottom its edges are distantly rounded and the face perimeter is beveled in silver chrome, drawling if not black gadget. A 3.8-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen engulfs the front and the center, similar to various android phone screens released in last 10 months, minus the cool imaging tech resemblance AMOLED and Super LCD employed by HTC and Samsung. The reaction of touchscreens is an intricate element to weigh against, but the X5 U8800 appears to be on-par with the other android phones recently released.
On dimensions of 120mm x 62mm x 11.6mm including an estimated weight of 130 grams (plus battery) the gadget feels sizeable in one’s hand, although not weighty when pocketed. If you hold the smartphone there’s that feeling that it’s quite craggy, in a Superior-tech Fischer-Price like. The discreet look of the X5 HD is perhaps not going to be “floss-like” phone when pulled out in public, but you’ll agree this is a highly functional Android phone.
Of course, one of the attractions of the X5 HD achieves is its vanilla Android 2.2.1 (FroYo) OS. And its standard Android FroYo (UI) User Interface is intuitive and functional– there are no complaints whatsoever. The X5 U8800 comes integrated with a Qualcomm MSM 7230 chipset housing a 45nm 800MHz Scorpion CPU, 512MB RAM and an Adreno 205 GPU. Considering performance, this hardware configuration can’t be said to be too scruffy at all. Remarkably, various benchmarking results placed the entire system on chip combination as a relatively highly rated gadget – slightly leading the Motorola Droid (Android 2.2+), and trailing a point behind Google Nexus One (Android 2.2+) that is, when you talk of system on chip performance.
Huawei has done well in delivering an android phone that commands superior user experience. The handset design may not be attractive, but its functionality won’t disappoint either, There are a few inexplicable omissions though, such as the lack of Wi-Fi hotspot feature, but if you're looking to try an android phone without spending much, then the Chinese maker Huawei X5 U8800 promises an ideal alternative.