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I couldn't wait long enough, so I got a Huawei Ascend D1 Quad. It out specs almost every phone in the market. The brand is virtually unknown, so they threw ever

• untog 14y ago
  It costs $200 less than the Nexus 4? Where can I buy it off-contract for $199?
  • jychang 14y ago
    I'm assuming it means compared to the on contract N4s.
  • alaithea 14y ago
    Yeah, best price I can find is $489 on eBay.
  • mahmud 14y ago
    Nexus goes for $600+ in Australia, IPhone $750. I bought my Ascend for $425 from JB Hifi
    • cheald 14y ago
      My Nexus 4 was $350 straight from Google, unlocked and unsubsidized. shrug
      • untog 14y ago
        There is where the dollar symbol is less than useful. USD != AUD.
        • cheald 14y ago
          $350 USD, sorry. Current exchange rate is 1.00 AUD = 1.05045 USD, though, so the AUS price is still wacky high.
      • chii 14y ago
        damn you lucky. Other places that have stock have jacked the price up to $550 or so.
• larskinn 14y ago
  That's great, and I love that Huawei can bring such specs at quite a low price point. But specs aren't everything. How is the UI responsiveness? Does the phone itself feel sturdy? I keep thinking there must be something wrong with it, but it might just be some irrational sense of "you get what you pay for".
  • RegEx 14y ago
    A lot of people around here have that irrational sense. It took a while for me to shake it off, but I'm glad I did.
    • larskinn 14y ago
      It's not entirely irrational though... looking at two identically-specced products I would choose the one with a higher build quality, which is often more expensive. So there is some correlation. Doesn't mean that more expensive always means better quality though.
• hkmurakami 14y ago
  The one killer feature a Nexus device has for me is that they are the first devices to get Android updates pushed to them when major updates arrive.
• stonemetal 14y ago
  The brand is virtually unknown I would say they are fairly well known in the US... for selling net work gear with back doors for the Chinese government. Mostly I kid, I work next to some of their offices in Dallas they have so so Chinese food in their cafeteria.
• Steko 14y ago
  "It bests the IPhone5 and Nexus on specs" No it doesn't. Benchmarks lower than HTC One X, disappointing btty life, etc. [1]. "and costs $200 less than either." No it doesn't. $425 off contract [2], which is $200 cheaper than the iphone but is $100 more than the Nexus 4. This is perhaps a defensible claim if you got it free on your carrier but that's a blanket statement that won't apply to most people. [1] http://www.slashgear.com/huawei-ascend-d1-quad-xl-review-15251804/ http://www.slashgear.com/huawei-ascend-d1-quad-xl-review-152... http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/huawei-ascend-d1-quad/4505-6452_7-35432678.html http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/huawei-ascend-d1-quad/45... [2] http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3293286/huawei-ascend-d1-quad-available http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/5/3293286/huawei-ascend-d1-qu... It looks like this phone was a world beater when it was announced in Feb 2012 and I'm sure it's still a solid phone but it's not going to win any best in show awards today.
• songgao 14y ago
  That ``jailbroken by default" thing really amuses me. It's very Chinese :-)