As of recent, Huawei Senior Product Manager, Mr. Wang Yonggang, who is in charge of the development of the Huawei flagship P series lineup of smartphones, broke out the great news that the Huawei P series flagships have exceeded 100 million sales globally(including in China) in total since it launched the Huawei Ascend P1 almost 10 years ago. Through a blog post in the Huawei Xinsheng online forum (an online community for Huawei users in China), he shared the many milestones that Huawei has achieved in the smartphone market throughout the 10 years since Huawei launched its first flagship, the Huawei Ascend P1, back in January 2012.

Huawei first started development for the Huawei Ascend P1 as early as in the summer of 2011, where Huawei wanted to put out its first competitive flagship smartphone to the market to make a name for itself in the industry. Mr. Wang Yonggang recalled that Huawei called in their research team from Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi’an to fly over to Shenzhen to help develop the Huawei Ascend P1 together with their Shenzhen team. 

After many months of market research and prototypes, they finally launched the Huawei Ascend P1 in January 2012 with a 4.3 AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8MP BSI rear camera in a lightweight and 7.6mm unibody, at a flagship price of RMB 2,999(471 USD) at the time. 

Although the Huawei Ascend P1 was not a bestseller by any metrics, it was Huawei’s first step to transition away from a B2B (Business to Business) company to a B2C(Business to Consumer) company with its first-ever flagship smartphone for the Chinese public.

Huawei’s next flagship, the Huawei Ascend P2, however, was not released in China and was instead released outside of China in markets such as the European and Japanese markets in 2013. This was due in part that the Huawei Ascend P2 was equipped with 4G which China did not have a proper rollout till 2014, and therefore Huawei decided to release it in the global market instead. The Huawei Ascend P2 was also the first Huawei flagship to be equipped with Huawei’s in-house Kirin SOC.

The next milestone for Huawei was the Huawei Ascend P6 with its show-stopping ID design, as the P6 was the world’s thinnest smartphone at its release, with a thickness of only 6.18mm. Looking back, it was the Huawei flagship that defined the premium design language of Huawei P series flagships for many years to come. 

The next big leap was the Huawei P9 with its dual rear camera setup. The Huawei P9 was Huawei’s first phone to collaborate with famous camera imaging company Leica, and the P9’s rear camera was equipped with a normal color lens as well as a monochrome lens. The phone then captures the image with both lenses and uses computational software to provide the best-looking photo for the user.

The next generational leap in photography was with the Huawei P20 Pro with its industry-breaking triple camera setup consisting of a wide lens, a monochrome lens, and a telephoto lens for versatile photography. The Huawei P20 Pro also came with the popular colourway Twilight, which solidified Huawei’s flagship design philosophy in the premium market.

The Huawei P30 series adopted a new type of RYYB colored lens for better images, while the P40 series provided marginal upgrades, such as 10x optical zoom for the series.

The Huawei P50 series was quite a confusing flagship lineup until recently. But Huawei launched the P50 Pocket this week, the company’s first-ever clamshell flagship foldable, which proved that Huawei is bringing forward innovation to its P series flagships once again.

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Back on March and May we have heard that Huawei Ascend P6 will get KitKat update, and now Huawei Ascend P6 owner is happy to get the update is available for download.

The update is avilable through over the air and the update files has 790MB file size, according to changelog the new update will brings new Huawei Emotion UI from 1.6 to 2.3.

The new update is also brings new camera filter, camera watermark features, and the user will get the phone manager app for performance boost, there is also file cleanup and power management, in addition to faster PIN unlock on the lockscreen, and better notification management and access on the lockscreen.

If you didn’t get the update, the Huawei will inform you as soon as possible, while we writing this news, the update is available for Europe. So let’s check out.

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From time to time Huawei will get into the international market with new smartphones that are interesting, but the Chinese company is really poor at getting the software updates. This case has been there since the Huawei joined the android camp, and sadly enough it seems things have not changed even a bit.

The Huawei Ascend P6 was the company’s flagship offering from last year, went on to be what many of us thought to be the best seller outside China, taking the credit for its incredible slim design as well as its affordability but not giving any promises for future software support.

Huawei promised back in November, 2013 that the latest version of the Ascend P6 would run on the latest version of android before the end of January, 2014. But we are already in mid May yet there is no update in sight for the Ascend P6 which sold into the international markets. Matter are even worsened by the fact that the company expects to release the updates in early June.

If this is ever going to be true, which is highly doubted given Huawei’s past records, it implies that the Ascend P6 will be seven months late in getting the android 4.4 Kitkat since this will be seven months after the launch of the android. This will definitely be a negative record to be attributed to the best selling Smartphone.

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Last year, Huawei has said that it would bring Android 4.4 update for Huaweo Ascend P6, and they really work for this busy.

There are many users expressed on their Ascend P6 since those phone has received Android 4.4 update, but given figure from their point of view, the system is based on Android 4.4.2 EMUI2.0.

From Huawei forums look, this update seems to be confined only to some users, but there are sources claimed that the Ascend P6 Unicom user will be come this month, mobile users will receive the latest system update.

In addition, sources also revealed, P6S, Mate 2 will be update to Android  4.4.2 update this month.

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Some smartphone manufacturer is ready to adopt Android 4.4 KitKat update in their products, and now Huawei is also join the party, while Huawei Ascend P6 is ready to get KitKat update in early next year.

In the Huawei’s Weibo account, they bring the news that the Huawei Ascend P6 will get the updated to Android 4.4 KitKat in the end of January 2014, and according to Huawei, all the Huawei Ascend P6 device will completely get the KitKat update till January 2014.

For a while now, the Huawei Ascend P6 is running on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean operating system, and if Huawei bring the KitKat update, the Ascend P6 will skip the 4.3 update for this phone, and this is the interesting news for Ascend P6 users.

For your reminder, Huawei Ascend P6 is the Android smartphone that had gained the world’s thinnest mobile phone with a thickness of just 6.2 millimeters. This smartphone uses a screen measuring 4.7 inches.

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Huawei is the world’s second largest smartphone maker, is now has several flagship smartphone, the one of those smartphne is Huawei Ascend P6 that has a good specs and offers with interesting price for most users.

Ascend P6 functions under the premise of ensuring not only has a beautiful appearance, but also has a 6.2mm thin body, even more thinner than Sony’s latest flagship smartphone Xperia Z Ultra.

The Ascend P6 is powered by the company’s home-brewed chipset – the K3V2 – featuring a quad-core 1.5GHz Cortex-A9 processor, a 16-core GPU and 2GB of RAM. Having already seen this configuration on the Ascend Mate phablet, we can confirm that it’s a more than adequate match for the 720p screen. in addition to Ascend P6 does not support LTE or NFC.

But compared to the Ascend P2 Earlier speaking, Ascend P6 progress on the hardware configuration is not large. In a sense, Ascend P6 is more like an exterior design even better Ascend P2, so that it can compete in the midrange model in the first to attract the attention of consumers.

Design and workmanship

Ascend P6 overall with a minimalist design language, one-piece body and aluminum frame is very beautiful. Compared to the iPhone body rounded rectangle vertically symmetrical design, Ascend P6 lower edge of the arc-shaped fuselage, giving the feeling of ingenuity. The keys are so slim body look slimmer.

Since Ascend P6 with a 4.7 inches screen, so the body is not small, but the benefit brushed metal back shell and the use of aluminum alloy frame, Ascend P6 feel good, but also to a single super-slim hand operation becomes easy. And Ascend P6 also uses Corning Gorilla glass, with certain anti-scratch properties. Ascend P6 in body weight control was also good, plus the super-slim, pocket so completely not a burden.

Ascend P6 physical buttons are all located to the right, from top to bottom, respectively lock screen button and volume buttons, as well as micro SIM card and micro SD card slot, you need to insert into Cato. Only at the bottom left side of the fuselage has a 3.5mm headphone jack, so that the design and the design of most of today’s mobile phones are not the same. Furthermore Ascend P6 comes a headphone dust plug, but very easy to lose. Top of the fuselage with micro USB interface and can be played during a call to the second active noise reduction microphone , while the first microphone is located on the bottom. Ascend P6 positive addition to the screen, there has beauty features 500 pixel front camera and a telephone handset, below is Huawei Logo. 800-megapixel rear camera is located at the upper left rear of the fuselage, but paired with a single LED fill light, while the speaker is located on the bottom.

It is worth mentioning that the Ascend P6 also comes standard with a translucent silicone protective cover, can well protect the body, fit is also very good, but the increase in thickness of the fuselage was inevitable. Ascend P6 battery capacity of 2000mAh, thanks 720P resolution screens and low-power processors, Ascend P6 can talk time of 46 hours.

Screen

Ascend P6 used a 4.7-inch in-cell LCD screen with a resolution of 1280 × 720, pixel density up to 312ppi, and the iPhone 5 was essentially flat. This screen is relatively large viewing angle, when viewing the screen at an angle of almost no color shift and decrease in contrast.

Most Android devices with different market, Ascend P6 in the brightness setting only 0%, 50%, 100%, and an optional automatic four kinds of brightness levels, not continuously adjustable. In the advanced settings you can adjust the brightness automatically adjusts the brightness changes, so does the brightness caused by a mutation in the human eye discomfort.

Huawei Ascend P6 also added a color temperature adjustment, you can adjust or cool colors or shades. In addition Ascend P6 also supports Magic Touch technology, you can operate across the glove.

Android 4.2 and Emotion UI 1.6

Huawei Ascend P6 running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean based on the depth of customization Emotion UI 1.6 operating system, the abolition of the native Android system applied two menu design, simplifying the overall system using logical, identification is also higher. Ascend P6 in Emotion UI and had earlier released Ascend Mate is basically the same, but because the Ascend P6 size is relatively normal, so some for Ascend Mate special function is canceled.

Performance and run sub-

Huawei Ascend P6 is equipped with its own developed Hass K3V2 processor, built-in four ARM Cortex-A9 architecture processor core, clocked at 1.5GHz, and also includes a 16-core GPU with 2GB RAM. Although the hardware configuration is not prominent, but from the practical effects of view, this somewhat outdated processor or sufficient 720P screen.

Although not with the Android camp today’s flagship model par, but results from the run points, Ascend P6 with the performance of the Samsung Galaxy S3 Android models such as last year and Ascend Mate basically comparable. If the required performance for games and other tasks without any special requirements, then Ascend P6 was able to complete the daily life of common tasks.

In addition, thanks to have a second microphone, so Ascend P6 call quality is very good, the volume is large enough is enough clear.

Camera

Ascend P6 is equipped with a 800-megapixel rear camera and a single LED flash , generating a maximum resolution of photos 3264 × 2448.

Into the camera application, the interface remained the Android native camera application of the original, started basically no difficulty. Proofs from the shooting, although not yet reached the top level, but Ascend P6 to detail and noise reduction controls are a great performance. Color and exposure accuracy is trustworthy. However, the focus during shooting sometimes found inaccurate. Overall, compared with the Ascend Mate, Ascend P6’s Fengyun camera fared somewhat less certain.

In addition, from the test results, Fengyun high resolution camera, at the same level of 8 million pixel camera in at the top level, the automatic white balance is accurate, noise reduction capability is higher.

Although there HDR mode Ascend P6, but even in the steady state can be continuous, the final results are not satisfactory synthesis. Furthermore Ascend P6 also maximum support 360-degree panoramic shooting mode, but the synthesis process takes ten seconds.

In addition to the rear camera outside, Ascend P6 comes with 5 megapixel front camera, the beauty comes mode you can shoot pictures from the effect is very good, suitable as a social networking site’s head.

Ascend P6 rear camera can record at 30 frames per second, or HDR 720P 1080P video, while the front camera can record 30 frames per second in 720P. Although Ascend P6 remarkable quality camera, but the video quality is not satisfactory. Video edge sharpness of serious decline, even if the details of the video center is difficult to restore satisfactory. In HDR mode, not only the details of the part does not improve, the brightness and contrast or even decreasing.

Connectivity

Connectivity aspects, Ascend P6 supports 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n standards, and Bluetooth 3.0. In addition, Ascend P6 also supports DLNA protocols, or television set-top boxes can be paired with DLNA, so as to achieve the purpose of streaming content.

Summary

Overall, Ascend P6 is an excellent mid-range phone, for most users, regardless of the screen and the processor or system or camera, Ascend P6 are able to meet daily needs. While speaking Ascend P6 from the hardware and no prominent bright spot, does not support the popular LTE network and NFC capabilities, but it proved to people the ability to make Huawei phones look very good, but it could change the past, Huawei The impression left consumers have a very positive effect, and thus help Huawei to further open international markets.

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European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) has just announced the award through the 2013-2014 EISA Awards on their official EISA website.

EISA award given to the best of the various categories that are taken based on the judging of 50 specialist magazines that are in 20 countries in Europe.

For Mobile Devices category, the EISA awards obtained by Harman Kardon Onyx, HTC, Huawei Ascend P6, the JVC HA-FXZ200, the Samsung GALAXY S4 Mini, and Sony Xperia Tablet Z.

While the Galaxy S4 won the Green Award as a green phone. Besides Samsung, several famous brands also won awards in various categories like Sony in the photo category, Panasonic, OPPO, Olympus and Philips in the other categories.

Complete list of winners of the various categories can be found at the EISA official website.

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Google’s Android mobile edition now becoming fairly positive trend in the market. After the emergence of the Galaxy S4 and HTC Google Editions, now Huawei is also prepare the Huawei Ascend P6 Google Editions.

The policy expressed directly by the President of Huawei Handset Division, Kevin Ho that says “We are working with Google to analyze the possibility of bringing Huawei Ascend P6 Google Editions,” he said.

But this is contrary to a statement issued by Huawei Chairman Richard Yu earlier. Yu said that Huawei is not interested in making Google Editions products. He said that Huawei Emotion UI better with many improvements.

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Huawei is preparing their new slimmest smartphone thats Huawei Ascend P6, it’s seems Huawei is ready to release this phone early since we have got the leaked picture of the user interface.

According to @evleaks Twitter account, they has revealed the picture of Huawei Ascend P6 user interface that using Emotion UI.

Futhermore, those phone will has 4,7 inch screen size with 720p HD screen display and powered by 1,5GHz quad-core processor. This phone will packs with 5megapixel front facing camera and 8 megapixel rear camera with macro feature thats capacble to take an object for 4 cm from lens. nterestingly, this phone will have slimmest body just for 6,18mm thickness.

We hope that Huawei is ready to launching the Ascend P6 smartphone this week.

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Today smartphone is come with slimmest body, and Huawei is also participated in presenting a slim phone that will appear in later products, thats calles as Huawei Ascend P6.

The device is quite good with the appearance of slimest body, the leaked picture of Huaweis Ascend P6 is exposure through Internet.

The possibility of this phone will be revealed on June 18th in London. Huawei Ascend P6 will has specification of 4.7-inch screen size, powered by quad-core 1.5 Ghz processor with 2GB of RAM , which will run on top of Android 4.x Jelly Bean operating system, with a 5 megapixel main camera on the back.
So, lets wait until this phone is officially released by Huawei.

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