Hold the line, please free accounting paper Huawei’s Ascend P6 is a remarkable device – at just 6.18mm thin it turns heads in a way that no other phone in its £21-5 per month price range can. Made entirely of glass and steel, there’s distinctly something of the iPhone 4 or 4S about it, with a black edge on a silver frame. If Apple was cross at Samsung’s approach to design, it’s hard to see the iPad-maker being completely sanguine about the P6. And yet perhaps it is Samsung who should be worried: Huawei, a giant of Chinese manufacturing and behind much of the internet’s infrastructure, is trying to do to Samsung what Samsung itself once did to Apple. The P6 is a premium product, albeit only with 3G, at a cheaper price that Samsung’s own, and it uses a version of Android that is modified in a bid to make it easier to use. It features a quad-core processor and offers a better front-facing camera (5MP) than any other on the market. It is, for now at least, the world’s thinnest phone and it features clever design tricks such as a pin to make the extraction of the SD card or SIM card easier. None of this is revolutionary, but it is handy.
Jamaal
