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Huawei had finally released their two new handsets — the Ascend D1 Quad XL, Honor 2 G600, both of which are in local stores and with a suggested retail price of under Php20k.

We just got word from Huawei reps that the Ascend D1 Quad XL will have aprice of Php18,990 while the Honor 2 has an SRP of Php13,990.

The Ascend D Quad XL is a quad-core smartphone powered by Huawei’s very own custom CPU (we’ve benchmarked an engineering unit and it scored at the top of the charts). The Honor 2 is a 4.5-inch midrange handset with a dual-core processor.

Huawei Ascend D Quad XL (U9510E) specs:
4.5″ IPS+ LCD display @ 720×1280 pixels @ 326ppi
Huawei K3V2 1.4GHz quad-core
1GB RAM
8GB internal storage
up to 32GB via microSD card
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 3.0 HS
HSPA+ 21Mbps
8MP autofocus camera w/ dual LED flash
1080p video recording
1.3MP front-facing camera @ 720p
GPS w/ aGPS support, GLONASS
Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus
2600mAh Li-Ion battery
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Huawei Honor 2 (G600) specs:
4.5″ IPS qHD display @ 960×540 pixels
Corning Gorilla Glass
Qualcomm MSM8225 1.2GHz dual-core
768MB RAM
4GB internal storage
up to 32GB via microSD card
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 3.0 HS
HSPA+ 21Mbps
8MP autofocus camera w/ dual LED flash
1080p video recording
0.3MP front-facing camera
GPS w/ aGPS support
Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus
1930mAh Li-Ion battery
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

* The engineering units we used though already had Jellybean in them so maybe the update is coming soon.

We’ve had a quick hands-on of these two units before and the benchmark scores were went thru the roof. Check them out here.

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Huawei Philippines is set to launch their very first quad-core Android smartphone in the market tomorrow at the SM North EDSA (SM Activity Center). Both the Huawei Ascend D Quad XL and the Ascend G600 will be launched that day.

We’ve also been invited by folks from Huawei to talk about their new phones since we were able to secure demo units of the D Quad XL and G600 ahead of time.

Of the two handsets, the Ascend D1 Quad XL will be Huawei’s flagship smartphone and be the first one to run a quad-core processor.

The Ascend D Quad XL was announced back in February and sports Huawei’s very own K3V2 quad-core processor which is based on ARM’s Cortex A9 architecture. The chip runs at 1.5GHz (4-cores) and has a 16-core GPU.

Huawei Ascend D Quad XL (U9510E) specs:
4.5″ IPS+ LCD display @ 720×1280 pixels @ 326ppi
Huawei K3V2 1.5GHz quad-core
1GB RAM
8GB internal storage
up to 32GB via microSD card
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 3.0 HS
HSPA+ 21Mbps
8MP autofocus camera w/ dual LED flash
1080p video recording
1.3MP front-facing camera @ 720p
GPS w/ aGPS support
Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus
2500mAh Li-Ion battery
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Early benchmark results showed that the Huawei’s K3V2 quad-core processor tops most other similar quad-core processors in the market, sometimes even beating the Snapdragon S4 in performance. We still have to do our own benchmarks though, just to be sure. Our early testing using Antutu Benchmark showed a high score of 13,497 while our NenaMark 2 gave it a score of 64.7fps.

Anyway, if you happen to be near the area tomorrow, I will be there to talk more about the Ascend D Quad XL and share some of our initial impressions during the launch. That’s 3:30PM at the SM CyberZone Activity Center in SM North EDSA.

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