Get a SIM-free Huawei Ascend P6 for around £330

The Huawei Ascend P6 was announced just the other day and Carphone Warehouse are the first to offer the super thin handset to the UK market with an expected delivery date of July 7.

The Carphone Warehouse are currently offering an unlocked, SIM-free P6 at £329.95 (about $516), there’s also a pay monthly plan starting at 21 GBP per month. A pretty decent price for a handset of this calibre.

Announced at the Huawei event in London on the 18th the Huawei Ascend P6 is a super thin phone with a 4.7-inch 720p HD screen. It also comes packed with Huawei’s own 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera on the back, and a pretty awesome 5-megapixel front-facing camera – the first smartphone to offer a front facing camera of this resolution.

The Carphone Warehouse page has a ton of information surrounding the Huawei P6 so for more details and to pre-order your handset head to the Carphone Warehouse.

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Robert Downey Jr. is reportedly set to team up with HTC to promote their smartphones.

The Taiwanese tech titan has seen sagging share prices and profits in the last twelve months, along with the departure of several high-ranking employees.

Its new HTC One flagship smartphone has been subjected to supply-related woes too, despite being a hit with the press, including iafrica.com.

“True, it might not have microSD support and the UltraPixel camera might not be as sharp as its rivals, but don’t let that deter you. The HTC One comes highly recommended,” we said in our review.

Now, Bloomberg has reported that HTC and Downey Jr. have come to terms on a two-year deal, worth $12-million, citing two people with “knowledge of the plans”.

According to the sources, the deal will see the actor as himself rather than Ironman or any other character he portrayed.

“We have nothing to announce today on a new marketing campaign,” an HTC spokesperson was quoted as saying.

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Huawei reportedly ‘open’ to acquiring Nokia

Huawei would consider snapping
up Nokia, which could help it boost its smartphone gains in Europe and the U.S., a company executive said on Tuesday.

According to the Financial Times
of London (paywall), Richard Yu,
chairman of Huawei’s consumer
business group, said at the launch of its latest smartphone offering, the Ascend P6, in London: “We are considering these sorts of acquisitions; maybe the combination has some synergies but depends on the willingness of Nokia.”

“We are open minded,” Yu told
reporters. Nokia would have to be a willing participant in a buyout
discussion, but its remains mum on whether or not its even in discussions with Huawei, or any other company for that matter.
A Nokia spokesperson said the
company “does not comment on
market speculation.”

Or, should Huawei consider a
hostile takeover, it could bypass
the need for the Chinese phone
maker to deal with the pesky problem of Nokia’s stubborn management. Nokia shareholders are getting twitchy over the company’s Windows Phone
strategy — ergo, it’s entire strategy moving forward. If Huawei goes straight to Nokia shareholders, they could take the offer and run while the Finnish phone maker is still afloat.

Currently, Huawei has a burgeoning base of users in China, taking the third slot in the Chinese volume shipment space behind Samsung and Apple, but it wants to move away from feature
phones into the smartphone space.

And no better candidate than ailing smartphone maker Nokia, which has its range of high-quality Lumia smartphones that just aren’t selling as well as they could be.

Based on comments to the London-based publication, Yu hinted that should Nokia succumb to a buyout deal, Huawei might ditch Windows Phone altogether in favor of “free” Android.

It comes after at least a year of
speculation on who might buy
Nokia. From Intel to Microsoft,
even Lenovo at one point, based
on comments made by Nokia chief
executive Stephen Elop that he is
sticking to his guns, at least with
its Windows Phone strategy.

Whether or not that extends to being bailed out by another company remains unclear.

Shares in Nokia ($NOK ) rose by as
much as 11 percent on the news,
according to Barrons.

BlackBerry ( $BBRY) was also up
by 4 percent on the news, considering the firm has yet to pick itself up from the floor of the boxing ring, after having ten bells kicked out of it by the rival smartphone market, and could
also be a suitable acquisition
target for Huawei.

This story originally appeared as
“Huawei ‘considering’ Nokia
acquisition: report ” on ZDNet.

Huawei Ascend P6 Unofficial Pricing Revealed

 

Chinese smartphone manufacturer does seem to have an ace up their sleeves with the upcoming Huawei Ascend P6, which will so happen to be their next flagship device in the market. Well, this particular puppy has been making waves around the rumor mills for quite some time already, and leaked press photos of it have even appeared in the past few days. Well, when it comes to flagship models of selected smartphones and other devices, one major aspect that folks always like to check out would be pricing details, and here we are with a report from China-based website Sina that the Huawei Ascend P6 will be priced at approximately 1,999 Chinese Yuan (when converted at prevailing exchange rates, it amounts to about $330 or €255).

We do look forward to Huawei making an introduction of their flagship smartphone at a press event in London this coming June 18, where it is touted to arrive in a chassis that measures all of 6.18mm thin, in addition to carrying a 4.7” display with a resolution of 720p and a pixel density of 312ppi, running on a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, accompanied by 2GB RAM, an 8-megapixel camera at the back, a 2-megapixel front facing camera, 32GB of internal memory and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean as the operating system of choice.