Huawei's enigmatic Android phone bound for T-Mobile in Q3?
By Ross Miller 
posted Mar 30th 2009 10:12PM
posted Mar 30th 2009 10:12PM
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Let's see how long before some Apple sheep cries about how this is a rip off of the iphone.
you don't have to be an apple fan to see that this looks like an iphone.
The phone is rectangular with rounded edges. Unless apple patented that, we should be OK.
So you noticed it to eh?
Hate to say it....But yeah, that looks almost exactly like an iPhone.....There's no denying it
It's the button that gives it away.
@transws6am
Come on. I know anybody who says anything positive in any way about Apple is a sheep and anybody who owns an Apple product is a zealot, but you've got to admit that it looks almost exactly like an iPhone. I honestly thought it was one until I saw your comment, looked closer at the picture and noticed that there's slightly less space around the home button.
I'm usually saying stuff doesn't look like the iPhone... But without reading the article, when i saw the picture i thought maybe apple announced the iphone 3.
:P
yeah it looks pretty similar to an iphone, but personally, i don't care all that much.
but it's so darn attractive
It looks just like the LG Prada, the phone that Apple ripped off when they "designed" the iPhone.
hate to say it but it does look exactly like your bland generic touchscreen devive.
seriously people, it's a rounded rectangle with a screen, a circular button + 2 others and a hole for the speaker. Now were it a copy of any other Apple device that actually have some design credentials I might be tempted to say it's a clone. However the iPhones design is the most bland, generic and overtly obvious design to ever grace the planet for a touchscreen device. Calling another device out for copying it is like complaining that any device with a keypad is an obvious clone of the Motorola DynaTAC...
" more dtails in next few "
Engadget grammar.
It looks like an iPhone, unsurprisingly.
Ever notice the Iphone looks like the LG Prada?? Unsurprisingly,
Ever notice how iphone looks like large screen palms? Unsurprisingly..
http://www.3gjuice.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/works_w_iphone_logo.jpg
Difference???
Mission accomplished at 10:15 pm...... mark it.
I suppose if you can't beat your competitor, join them. Hence the iPhone look alike (even though most touch screen ones now are looking like iPhone's), but it's definetly not a bad thing, just more nice looking phones going around :)
well you would be shitting urself if u didin't think this looked exactly like the iphone so idk what the first comment is freaking out about
It's BLUE and has a raised button. :p
Really though, how is it not surprising? I mean, a full touch screen non-qwerty phone can only once before the design is really copied again, don't you think? For a size that isn't too large...
"dtails"
It's an infinitely small tail. Just integrate it and it'll be normal-sized.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry that I get that joke. I guess I should consider my student loans money well spent :P
WTF!!!....Why is T-Mob getting all the Android love?
Because they are on the OHA
And yet another post about an Android phone that's gonna come out sometime in the near and/or distant future. It seems to me that their are about 1,000 Android phones coming out before the end of the year but we've only seen like 3 of them actually demoed. Why is that?
Holy shhh! I thought this was the iPhone 3rd model .
I actually like the quality of the Huawei's phones, they have a very solid Nokia-like feel.
pic goes here http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/clocky/blog/rds/digi.jpg
for the phone that I got for free (3 of them actually) with my TV-internet bundle.
This is kind of getting boring. All the hype and what has Android offered till date ? It was touted to be iPhone's death knell. It is nowhere near even a tiny bell ring. Google must have a say in the H/W and get better phones, not ones that are outdated. This is lacklustre to say the least.
I'm an Android fan BTW.
If u can't beat'em , clone'em.!!LOL fail from the opening gate.
How exactly is it a FAIL?
Are you suggesting that the iPhone is so full of fail that a 'clone' is also -- inevitably -- a failure?
How else do you expect a touch-screen phone to look? Should other touch-screen phone manufacturers make theirs triangular, or square, or circular, just so they look different to Apple's rectangular phone, even though a rectangle is the most practical shape?
Does iPhone have a 5 MP camera?
Good news. But unless it's powered by Tegra (or something equivalent), am not getting it.
Seriously, you I wanted a normal touchscreen-only phone, I would have bought an iPhone. I'm waiting for the other rumored Android with a Tegra-like chip, a physical qwerty, and iPhone's sexiness. TmoJoe on Tmonews forums has been teasing around with this device, saying he has a 9-min video that he won't release yet so his source won't get fired...
Breaking news!!!!!
Engadgeters voted iPhone smartphone and gadget of the year!!!!!!!
Will this accomplish such feat,.????
umm.... Engadget, didn't you mean this site:
http://tmotoday.com/
Only way I would get this , is if it can clearly kill the iPhone safari browser. I currently browse 1-2 hours a Day on my iPhone 3g.
I realize you're just a lowly troll and you're just trying to get a rise out of some people, but I felt the need to point out that Android's web browser is at least as good as mobile safari. It renders equally well, is easy to control, and it never crashes. As an extra plus, it is much better at reformatting columns to fit the screen width so that zooming is almost never necessary.
Well if it doesn't crash that often, that'd be a huge improvement over Safari. My Safari on my iPhone gets a hissy fit and will crash if you spend more than a few minutes browsing some regular websites with images and text on it, sometimes. It's pretty annoying.
Concur, I use my touch and g1 every day and I prefer the way Android handles resizing the text columns to your zoom level, and it starts out zoomed in to the colum. another huge feature is: long click a link, it pops up concxt menu, choose "open link in new window". just like a desktop browser you can preload the next page you are going to read while you finish reading the current one. this drives me nuts when I go back to the touch.
I see a lot of Low Ranked comments in the future.
:P
Ok android been out since October of 2008.. Supposedly every major carrier would have tons of phones on android os. I don't get it whats the hold up, don't they want to make money. ?is it just me , or is android overhyped?it was said that android would kill iPhone .
Indeed, it's been out for just over 6 months. This means that only in the past few months have companies been working it into their design cycles. It takes time for them to get phones designed, implemented, and get the software buildout going and up on these things.
Now, Android will not kill the iPhone. At this rate nothing will. What it will probably do is eat away at the Windows Mobile front. Once Symbian is opensourced, it's likely that will come gnawing at Windows Mobile from the other end, since at this rate it will be the only OS that requires royalties to use and the only one that isn't open source.
That said, damnit, I want a hardware keyboard. If one doesn't show up or something before the next iPhone iteration hits and there's a 32GB iPhone, I'm jumping and retiring my 5 year old 3G iPod.
I can't really agree with your android comment too much; Yes, the Android software has been available to the public for six months, but OBVIOUSLY its been available to handset manufactures for way longer. The G1 wasn't built in a day. There for other companies have had ample time to produce another Android phone and haven't. Either because they have been weary of a new platform, or they are concerned it wont sell to anyone but techy geeks.
oops my comment was meant for Microlith
I agree android has been out long enough now, where are the phones? Whats the holdup? If it were me I would get decent hardware, android and rush out a handset, cash in
The hold up is it was half baked, and wasn't ready for decent hardware. Now, with cupcake and the growing market, it can get the phones it needs...
TareX is right, the reason why Android hasn't been showing up on tons of phones yet is because it still isn't finished. They cut development short in order to polish up the G1 release, and the end result is that the currently released version of Android is not as scalable or adaptable as it was supposed to be because it was only QA'd for the G1.
Now that Cupcake is nearing completion, we're getting closer to the "real" release of Android when it will finally be ready for anybody to install on handsets without doing low-level hacking to get anything to work.
It's sad that I'm most excited about the 3.5 headphone jack.
so i check engadget all day at work for sweet updates like this and they wait till late at night to release it! real mature!
all i want is an N97-like device running android. that's all. is that too much to ask for?
how do you even pronounce huawei?
Just like this: huawei.
...some things just don't work as well over the internet.
I believe it sounds like who-ah-way.
so:
Hoo-wa-wee ??
It's a little hard to phoneticize since the hua part doesn't really translate well into english.
But the closest I can do is:
H (an exhale sound)-wa (as in wabbit, wascally)
Wei is just pronounced like the word "way"
So add it all up and you get something like H-wa way.
On a side note, Huawei is actually a pretty advanced company and if you see 3Com products they're likely to be Huawei products. I have a cousin who's an engineer for them, although I haven't spoken to him in about a decade so no secret inside info for me. I do know that they pay their top engineers pretty well though.
Tekd is correct, but for all purposes who-ah-way is good enough.
HOLY SHIT HUAWEI ANDROID PHONE IS COMING
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I reckon it's a photo of a multi-OS-capable version of the new iPhone which can quad-boot linux, Android, Windows Mobile and Cocoa Touch.
Or i could just be taking the piss out of everyone XD
Does look quite iPhone-y though, save for the raised rim around the home button and obvious lack of muteswitch / volume controls.
Correction, it looks better than the iphone!
Seriously, when the samsung Glyde came out I was like are they ALLOWED to copy the iPhone's look so directly!?
But THIS... wooooowww.. This is a whole new level of straight up copy cat. Even the fvcking curved edges are the same as the iPhone 3G. The speaker, the home button.. omg it's absolutely ridiculous!!
I'm not an Apple sheep/fanboy, but if I were Apple I'd be suing.. It's a complete copycat.
I hate how people fawn over how Apple apparently hold every patent known to man when it comes to smartphones with a touch screen. Just because they were the first big success in the touchscreen era of phones, doesn't mean they were the first, nor best. Far from it :P
Anyways, this thing is way sexier than any iPhone could be, plus Android? To me, the iPhone now seems like an '80s era brickphone compared to this beaut' ;P
There is a reason Apple can't patent this ... BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO PATENT. You can't patent everyday plain jane crap. That is why Jeep lost it's lawsuit to Hummer for the vertical bar grill.... it was a bunch of verticle slots. Nothing ingenious. You can't patent that. That is why Adidas changed its logo from the three diagonal stripes to the triangle with the stripes. They were having a nightmare trying to claim they invinted the 3 diangonal stripes. Just like Apple is never going to convince anyone that they invinted this plain jane looking slab of metal and glass.
Doesn't it not have enough button to be an android phone?
why does it have to look almost exactly like an iPhone?? = [
Hmm, a friend of mine who shouldn't trust me with things who works with T-Mobile R&D told me about this 2 months ago. Although he couldn't spell Huawei so ( . )
It doesnt look like an iPhone it looks like an iPod touch see it closely by the sides it looks like an ipod touch not an iphone as it looks thinner