Huawei Ascend Y550

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Reviews for the Huawei Ascend Y550

70% Huawei Ascend Y550 review
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
The Huawei Ascend Y550 is currently available for £69 from EE and O2, and at that price it seems a reasonable deal. However, SIM-free you’ll pay up to £110, and at that price it’s awful. If you can afford a £100 phone, you can do much better than the Y550. The Motorola Moto G and EE Kestrel offer a better core experience. Even if you can’t afford that, the Motorola Moto E doesn’t have the same screen compromises as the Huawei Ascend Y550, although it doesn’t have 4G either and offers a much weaker CPU.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/23/2015
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 70% display: 60% mobility: 90% workmanship: 90%

60% Huawei Ascend Y550 Review: In-Depth
Source: Recombu Archive.org version
Despite some pretty uninspiring first impressions, the Huawei Ascend Y550 actually packs a lot of nice and even some distinctive power-user features into a low-to-mid range specced device. There’s obvious work that could be done to improve it but it nails the goals is set out to do well.
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 11/25/2014
Rating: Total score: 60%

Foreign Reviews

Huawei Ascend Y550
Source: c't - Heft 09/2015
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 04/16/2015

74% Huawei Ascend Y550
Source: Connect - Heft 05/2015
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 04/01/2015
Rating: Total score: 74%

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Model: The Huawei Ascend Y550 is an affordable yet capable smartphone. There was a lot of thought put into the device by Huawei in terms of providing a pleasant user experience. Stylish hardware is a key area that attracts consumers and the Huawei Ascend Y550 delivers with its simplistic look and curved edges. The back cover is slightly textured for better grip and a raised camera in located at the top center.

There are 3 touch buttons in front, a physical power button and volume rockers. The smartphone comes in either black or white. The Android 4.4 device operates on a Qualcomm MSM8916 quad-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Adreno 306 GPU and an internal storage of 4 GB. Users can up this meagre storage by using a microSD card maxing out at 32 GB. Display on the Huawei Ascend Y550 is a 4.5 inch IPS panel and it does a decent job in color rendition and contrast.

Some of the other features include LTE, A-GPS and Bluetooth 4.0. The smartphone features a 5 MP main camera located at the rear and a secondary 2 Mp shooter in the front. Huawei's own Emotion UI 2.3 runs on top of Android providing extra capability and ease of use. The Huawei Ascend Y550 comes with a 2000 mAh battery providing superb battery life. 

Qualcomm Adreno 306: Integrated mid-range graphics card in the Snapdragon 410 SoCs that supports OpenGL ES 3.0 and features unified shaders.

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

410 MSM8916: 64-Bit Cortex-A53 Quad-Core with an Adreno 306 GPU manufactured in 28nm» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

4.50":

This display is tiny. You will probably see very little on the screen and be able to use mini-resolutions.

Huawei: Huawei Technologies Co, Ltd. is a Chinese telecommunications company and hardware manufacturer founded in 1987 and headquartered in Shenzhen. Huawei is a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. Huawei provides end-to-end solutions for telecommunications networks, devices, and smartphones, as well as storage, servers, networking, and cloud computing enterprise solutions and products.

In 2014, Huawei established the Honor subsidiary brand under which certain smartphone lines are sold. The Huawei name is usually not listed for these products.

68%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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