I have played with it more, and while it feels cheap at least in the hand..plastics all around, it is a decent phone, great speed, 4g, huge screen, finally a metro phone with an LED Flash.. Now the con's...Its bogged down with the typical Metro Crapware, the screen is not AMOLED, so in light its difficult to see, feels cheap, and of course like any 4g device, the battery life sucks, and it took a good 2hrs to charge to 100% from 50%. All in all once its rooted, and you remove the Metro Crap off it, and if you don't use your 4g a lot, then it should be a pretty darn good phone with decent battery life. My friend owns a metro dealership, and he let me take his home, and play with it for a night. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get it into a boot mode, much less get any way of putting CWM, or any root. I will tell you this Gingerbreak will NOT root this device. With 4g constantly running, i found battery went from 100% to 13% in about 2hrs 38minutes. With the 4g turned off, and using Wifi the battery life lasted about 18 minutes longer, with no WIFI/4G calling, and texting the battery lasted about 5hrs on it. So i guess its about on par with any other 4g phones for battery life. On a side note, Extended Battery for the LG Revolution will work with this, as well as cases and otterbox's. It does have the normal 3.5mm headphone jack, so no need to have specialty jacks for your headphones. Music seems to be very crisp, and the built in EQ works well. Ringers seemed a little soft to me even at full volume, vibrate mode it decent, not so hard its going to go off the desk, but hard enough that it will be very noticible in your pocket or on a desk.
Overall once a root solution is figured out, which should be the same as the Revolution, did not check that forum, you can clean off the Metroware, and have a really nice phone. Because of the cheap feel, i would definately spend the money to get a quality case for it.
for benchmark on stock i get past 2300+ but i still havnt did nothing to it, not even rooted it, but after having the Ascend, i really dont want to fool with huawei phone anymore, plus they lack support for there products.
sounds like the best phone company ever, but i wish i would switch over, my mom doesn't read about technology and still with metro -__-, I'm going to convince her to!
