After Cricket, Huawei Ascend 2 Metro Pcs is also in the horizon. Ascend 2 is the sequel to the Huawei Ascend phone and Metro Pcs also launched this phone featuring better features. There has been significant improvement on many of the features that was original in Huawei Ascend. The OS is Android 2.2 Froyoinstead of the earlier Android 2.1. 3.5 inch HVGA display screen has replaced all the buttons and track balls giving it a neat and sleek look. It has also become lighter than the earlier phone.
Huawei Ascend 2 is a smart move from a regular feature phone to smartphone. There are 9 home screens that are customizable making it easy to organize and access different applications quickly. There is option to directly update your Facebook or twitter status. You can access games, wallpapers and ringtones through @metro App store. Another attraction is the various applications in Android Market, close to 10,000 of them easily accessible from this smart phone. One of the main improvements is in Camera that got upgraded from 3.2 Megapixel to 5 Megapixel. The improved camera allows you to capture images and share with your friends and family in much better quality. The camera interface has an option menu giving all the options that is possible. It is a nice menu to have even though number of options in the list is little too long.
Easy Wi-Fi connectivity allows you to automatically connect to nationwide Wi-Fi network. The QWERTY keyboard is very convenient to type in messages and emails. It is a good phone for this price with so many features. Processor has become slightly faster as it changed from 500 MHz to 800 MHz. Battery life is decent enough for a phone in this range and you can further prolong the battery life by reducing the brightness of the screen. The large number of preloaded applications in the phone can slow it down which can be improved by downloading the 'task killer' from the Android market to see which applications are taking up most of the memory and killing those if not needed. The memory of this phone is not really bad as it has 512 MB internal storage and 256 RAM. You have the option to expand the external memory up to 32GB with the provided microSD slot. It has all the multimedia features like music player that plays multiple formats such as MP3, AAC and WMV, video player that plays MP4 and WMV. Instead of the standard 3.5 mm headset jacket, this phone has a 2.5mm headset jacket.
There are many different kinds of accessories available for this phone from
Huawei Ascend 2 Metro Pcs like different types of protective covers for the phone, Bluetooth, universal adaptor, car charger, travel charger, etc. to make the phone more attractive and easy to handle.
This phone is a smartphone that is having almost all the features offered by other expensive smartphones. If you are willing to compromise on the speed, screen resolution, etc. you will not regret this buy.
