Huawei Ascend Y550 Review

Huawei Ascend Y550 is an impressive device, with a medium 4.5-inches touch-screen, an extremely powerful 1.2 gigahertz Quad-Core 64-bits processor, and two cameras, a 5 megapixels back side camera and a 2 mega-pixels front side camera. But let's get into much more details.

This phone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 8916 chip, backed up by an extremely powerful 64 bits Quad-Core CPU speeding at 1200 MHz with only 1 GB of RAM memory which is a little poor for a phone this good. To handle graphic intensive applications, this phone also uses an Adreno 306 GPU clocking at 450 MHz. This device counts with a 4 GB internal memory, a fair amount that should be enough knowing that it also has an SD extension slot .

Being just 0.37 inches thick,this cellphone is extremely slim and comfortable. Huawei made this cellphoneavailable only in 2 different colors: black and white. It seems like Huawei forgot about optimizing the weight in this 5.4 ounces cellphone.

This phone is equipped with two cameras, a 5 MP back facing camera and a 2 mega-pixels front camera. This phone also films videos in HD 1280x720 at 30 frames per second. To complete the camera, it also counts with a few interesting characteristics: auto-focus, flash, geo tagging and face detection shooting.

Huawei equipped this cellphone with a good looking 4.5-inches display, and a resolution of 854 x 480 , giving this device a very nice graphic quality. Its display uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This cellphone counts with wi-fi capability (and it can provide it to other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE high performance connectivity and 3G fast connection type, using HSPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This cellphone uses a Micro SIM card for GSM networks.

This device also features a couple interesting features as NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your device close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth and GPS Geolocation, and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This cellphone counts with a good 2000 mAh Li-Ion replaceable battery providing this cellphone with a not very long battery life.

This device costs 249 dollars, very expensive for this type of phone. It doesn't matter whether you want a cellphone to mostly use social networks, need a cellphone for playing games or need a work device, you will definitely be very happy with it.