Huawei Ascend D Quad XL | World's Fastest Smartphone

Ever heard of Huawei (pronounced "wa-wei")? In the telecom industry, Huawei is the second largest supplier of mobile telecommunications infrastructure in the world after Ericcson. In 2010 Huawei began shipping its first smartphones and this 2012, Huawei wants your next phone to be made by Huawei!

What does Huawei have to offer? Well, Huwaei holds the distinction for having the "world's slimmest smartphone" --the Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Huawei Ascend P1 S with a depth of 0.26 inches (the previous slimmest smartphone was the Motorola Droid Razr at 0.28 inches).

In their Ascend series of smartphones, Huawei is taking the smartphones war to a whole new level with the Huawei Ascend D Quad XL Smartphone. Huawei claims it's the "world's fastest smartphone" with a whooping 1.5GHZ quad-core processor!

Like the Huawei Ascend P1 S introduced at CES, the Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered Huawei Ascend D Quad XL has a smooth, slightly rubberized back, and a slight bump for a grip toward the bottom back of the phone.

The Huawei Ascend D Quad XL has a 1280-by-720-pixel touchscreen with 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of ROM memory. The integrated Dolby Mobile 3.0 Plus produced pulsating audio. The front-facing camera is 1.3 megapixels, while the rear camera is 8 megapixels and capable of 720p video. Huawei also integrates Audience's earSmart dual-microphone noise reduction technology and the micro-USB port doubles as an MHL-HDMI connector.

The Ascend D Quad XL support five UMTS bands and four GSM bands, but no LTE yet which come later this year, in the third quarter or beyond according to Huawei.

The phones will first come out in China, then in Europe and North America.