Huawei Glory links, leaks, facts and speculation thread

[the258]

Huawei U8860 Honor user interface - YouTube

 

[Gmash]

^^^
I like it. It looks very smooth.

 

[the258]

Smooth, where he almost dropped it

 

[Gmash]

Ha!

 

[ThiPaX40]

I've asked them by email if this model is truly 'Dual sim, dual stand by' If so, this seems to be an affordable top specs dual sim phone.

Will post if I get an answer.

Their answer:It is single sim phone. Sorry for our typo. If you need a good dual sim phone, you can buy Lenovo a60

 

[the258]

Good to know, doubt they made a typo. Seems more like they just posted the wrong info provided to them. Cricket wont have a use for a GSM phone to sell. Idk if MetroPCS uses sim cards.

 

[DXGypsy]

Whats the latest on a release date?

 

[ShinySide]

All I can contribute to the release, I have a Cricket insider, is it was added to the system and thats all he knows too. He went to activate a phone and realized Cricket added it to the system/database which *should* mean it should be out pretty soon.

 

[the258]

In about a week or so and Huawei has ICS beta on the Honor already.

 

[DXGypsy]

Amazing there hasn't been a single TV commercial, web advertisment, press release, YouTube video, magazine ad or anything else to announce this.
The only quasi-reviews/news on the net are months old and all pretty much the same article reprinted.

In fact, if I hadn't done a Google search for "best prepaid android" I would have never known about the Glory.

This is NOT the way to make your product a best seller.

However I suppose whenever they finally do release it, Ill have something no one else knows about. That's kinda cool.

 

[Gmash]

Amazing there hasn't been a single TV commercial, web advertisment, press release, YouTube video, magazine ad or anything else to announce this.
The only quasi-reviews/news on the net are months old and all pretty much the same article reprinted.

In fact, if I hadn't done a Google search for "best prepaid android" I would have never known about the Glory.

This is NOT the way to make your product a best seller.

However I suppose whenever they finally do release it, Ill have something no one else knows about. That's kinda cool.

I'm thinking they don't want everyone waiting for this phone to come out instead of buying the phones they have out now. They'll probably promote it after it's released. Also, the Samsung Transfix just showed up on their website one day and I had never even heard of that one. Maybe they'll release the Glory/Mercury the same way. I do hope it sells well, though, or there won't be any ROMs for it.

 

[the258]

To be honest I hardly see any Cricket commercials. Probably on the local channels, I recall one where they pretty muched ragged on TMO service but never to promote any phone. All the ones I have seen have been on Youtube and those arent official Cricket vids.
Any who heres the link about ICS on the Honor
Official Demo Android 4.0 Update For The Huawei Honor (U8860) Released
enjoy.

 

[Gmash]

Nice. I've seen a few Cricket commercials here and there, but I hear a lot of them on the radio, usually promoting whatever phone they have on sale that month.

 

[Gmash]

Huawei U8860 Honor hands-on and unboxing - YouTube

Honor unboxing.

Another article about ICS on the Honor:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Huawei-Honor-gets-Android-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-officially-gloats_id24608?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+phonearena%2FySoL+%28Phone+Arena+-+Latest+News%29

 

[the258]

Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the Huawei Honor! - YouTube

 

[the258]

How to Update Your Huawei Honor U8860 with Android 4.0 Demo Version