Huawei U8230 (in other words, the one that isn’t the Pulse) gets reviewed
Huawei U8230 (in other words, the one that isn’t the Pulse) gets reviewed
Huawei’s on the cusp of making a pretty serious Android push in Europe with the recent introduction of its Pulse on T-Mobile and this little puppy, the U8230, which — let’s be honest, is shaping up to be little more than a Pulse remix for countries where T-Mobile doesn’t do business. In fact, it seems to be the same thing from a hardware perspective (right down to the 3.5-inch HVGA display and unfortunate 2.5mm headphone jack), so you can almost look at as a prime application of HTC’s classic strategy of re-skinning devices for different carriers and markets around the world. Anyhow, PointGPhone has had a chance to screw around with a proper U8230, coming away with the conclusions you might expect — it’s an interesting play at the right price point, but with that sluggish 528MHz performance, limited on-board storage, and inexplicably missing 3.5mm jack, you might be better off looking elsewhere. Not to say we have an option in the States, anyhow.
(Via Engadget Mobile.)
