Tmobile Huawei Comet in 2010, will a phone ought to have a 4.3-inch show, a gigahertz (or greater) processor, and a one-bazillion megapixel camera with xenon flash and continuous autofocus to be relevant ? How regarding important? or maybe — dare we are saying it — awesome ? Is that even remotely possible ? At a look, Tmobile Huawei Comet could be a totally forgettable phone, simply another anonymous ultra-low finish handset that may not reaching to impress anyone (except perhaps your accountant). However let’s think about the facts: at $9.99 on contract, it’s an insane deal for a newly-introduced smartphone, and it’s by so much all-time low backed worth for any Android device ever released within the US. In fact, it’s at intervals shouting distance of free. Tmobile Huawei Comet runs stock Android 2.2. A regional variation of the Huawei Ideos, it absolutely was designed with facilitate from Google. Oh, and yeah, it’s one in every of the primary T-Mobile devices to feature WiFi hotspot support.

Tmobile Huawei Comet Specs

Tmobile Huawei Comet Hardware

Tmobile Huawei Comet would be deceptive to say that the Comet has a premium appearance to it, but in the same breath, calling it “cheap-looking” would probably be doing it a disservice. It generally looks like Huawei has done everything it can to use ultra-cheap materials and make them look (and feel) higher-end, starting with matte black plastic on the back cover and front bezel trimmed with small strips of soft-touch material in between. The company mercifully limited its use of chrome to the d-pad’s ring and the volume rocker, and the plate surrounding the d-pad has concentric ridges that produce a nice optical effect. We can definitely picture the Comet looking great in a variety of colors (in fact, Huawei showed a bunch of Ideos colors at IFA), but for now, black’s the only option.

Tmobile Huawei Comet Camera

Tmobile Huawei Comet is a fixed-focus 3.2 megapixel camera here, so we didn’t expect much — and we didn’t get much. The pictures aren’t half bad — particularly when scaled down to sizes appropriate for computer screens — but the video capture was absolutely atrocious. It outputs CIF video (352 x 288) at a low framerate with pretty awful audio… and, well, quite frankly, there’s almost nothing positive to say about it. It almost feels like Huawei took a sensor designed solely for still photos and hacked it to do video. In fact, that’s probably what they did.

Tmobile Huawei Comet Software

Tmobile Huawei Comet runs stock Android 2.2 — a side-effect of Huawei’s partnership with Google on the phone, we’re sure, evidenced by the large “with Google” logo placed right below the camera on back. That said, there are a couple pack-in apps — nothing too controversial, and nothing we haven’t seen before: the view-only version of Documents To Go, T-Mobile’s My Account and My Device apps, Swype, Telenav, and a generic “Note pad” app are all in ROM. We put “Note pad” in quotes because that’s how it’s actually written, and the poor capitalization is kind of indicative of the whole app — sloppy with virtually no functionality. We suspect Huawei wrote this themselves and tossed it in as a stopgap to make up for Android’s lack of a standard note-taking app, but we would’ve preferred that they just let us download one of the many free (and good) ones ourselves or let T-Mobile partner up with a decent developer to include one.

We won’t lie: the phone can get sluggish. That’s obviously attributable to the 528MHz processor that Huawei included — partly as a battery saver, we’re sure, but more as a cost saver. We never got to the point where we were ready to throw the phone against a wall, though — the speed was bearable, particularly (and importantly) in the browser where scrolling seemed to basically keep up with our demands.

Tmobile Huawei Comet Wrap-up

Tmobile Huawei Comet is easy to read through some of our criticisms here and dismiss the Comet as a mediocre device — but again, we need to focus just as much on the price and the market significance as we do on the device itself. As of this writing, the Comet is actually free on contract if you buy it off T-Mobile’s site… and that’s for a brand-new, just announced smartphone running the latest available version of Android direct from a carrier. That’s simply unprecedented.

It would’ve been easy for T-Mobile to screw this up by launching a really miserable device that no one in their right mind would want to own — a smartphone that made you crave for a better-built dumbphone at the same price point. Instead, the carrier saved a few dollars by reaching out to a manufacturer that hasn’t traditionally done a lot of consumer-facing business in the States, and Huawei really seems to have met the challenge; sure, there are some rough edges, but nothing that can’t be smoothed out over time — and nothing that would prevent us from recommending Tmobile Huawei Comet.

Source [Engadget - Tmobile Huawei Comet]

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