T-Mobile USA may have had a difficult year in 2011 with the merger of AT&T not going through, but the company seems to be looking toward the future during 2012.
Huawei is commonly known for the low-cost Android handsets in the United States. Has announced a fairly impressive handset for the North American market the Huawei Ascend P1 & P1S.
The Huawei Ascend P1 S is the manufactures thinnest smartphone measuring in at 6.68mm thin. The handset also comes with a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED touch screen with Corning Gorilla Glass, which will make the handset more durable and scratch resistant. The Ascend P1 S has a 1.5GHz dual core processor and runs Google’s latest version of the Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich. Both the Huawei Ascend P1 & P1 S will have an 8.0-megpixel rear-facing camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, HD video recording at 1080p, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Both the Ascend P1 & P1 S will be available in black, white and pink. Both handsets are going to be launch in Europe, Asia- Pacific, North America, Australia, Middle Ease and China in April. At the moment pricing, and which cellular provider will be carrying the handsets have yet to be announced.
During CES Sony announced their latest Xperia handset the Sony Xperia Ion for AT&T.
The Sony Xperia Ion is the first handset from Sony to support AT&T’s 4G LTE network. By having support for AT&T’s 4G LTE network this will give consumers faster data speeds when downloading applications or browsing the web. The handset will also have a 4.6-inch HD touch screen, a 12.0-megapixel rear-facing camera, and HD rear-facing camcorder at 1080p, HD front-facing camcorder at 720p, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 16GB of flash memory.
One thing that makes the iPhone so popular is the vast array of accessories you can buy for it: bumper cases, docking ports, car accessories and even a toy gun which you can slot the iPhone into to play games with.
Sprint announced their 4GLTE plans late last year. The cellular company hasn’t announced any phones that will run on their 4G LTE network until this years CES were they announced the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the LG Viper 4G LTE.