Huawei Ascend P7 review: Looking strong

07 May 2014
The Huawei Ascend P7 is the sequel to the ultra-thin P6, the phone that proved, beyond any doubt, Huawei's ability to create visually appealing handsets. The new model builds on the original with a 5" 1080p screen, superior camera and chipset, plus a number of other improvements...

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  • Anonymous
  • fqn
  • 24 May 2014

Ryck, 08 May 2014Huawei P6 had many problems besides battery life and proces... moreOkay so can't you maybe... I don't know BUY a GPS .phones are useless when it comes to navigating ! So just get a GPS...really.........

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    • mike
    • fq8
    • 23 May 2014

    Hi,
    am in Kenya and i want to import Ascend P7, please help me on how to go about it and how soon can be shipped in.
    thank you.

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      • Sergiu
      • pqx
      • 22 May 2014

      I can't understand what the hysteria with 4K is all about, or with benchmarking and other useless things. 1. 4K-really?! Who has a 4K monitor anyways?! But you just have to have some sort of 4K capable device, don’t you, because, otherwise your live would be ruined! Or, maybe, you want to be a movie producer, yes? Well, use pro grade lenses and a proper camera, not a phone, will you, Spielberg?! 2. Antutu worshiping – this as well; really?! Gaming all day long? Get a job or/and a girlfriend, for a proper usage of the right hand. Tech genius? Hm.. I guess not. So ...what's the fuss all about? You just can't stand having a lower CPU ranking over you so called friends, right? Because, they will say that you are stupid and, naturally, because you regard yourself through the things you have bought and not by what you really are, you will discard it as “junk”. Well, nice thinking, Einstein, and good luck with that!

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        • AnonD-260984
        • fmR
        • 15 May 2014

        This phone is awesome,I must get by August....

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          • JJM
          • sn{
          • 13 May 2014

          It's totally not look like Xperia i have dummy in store its larger Huawei P6 and looks fking awsome, best designed phone so far.

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            • ang phet
            • v0q
            • 13 May 2014

            Apple should buy from huawei then rebadged it to sell some. Its like ford gm chrysler that are ordering generic china cars and then sell them as rebadged usa cars in order to add some quality models to their crap stable.

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              • Anonymous
              • spX
              • 12 May 2014

              Thicker than its predecessor?! Really at 6.5mm it's one of the thinnest phones around, compared to other phones.

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                • K2I
                • 12 May 2014

                Please add some night and low light shots .....

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                  • AnonD-246216
                  • sxt
                  • 12 May 2014

                  Ryck, 08 May 2014Huawei P6 had many problems besides battery life and proces... moreSo you cant get around places without a gps? That's sad.

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                    • 0Ck
                    • 12 May 2014

                    AnonD-251095, 09 May 2014But they are there when browsing the web ?You can hide navigation bar whenever/wherever you want, whether browser or game or elsewhere.

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                      • AnonD-262114
                      • rKw
                      • 09 May 2014

                      get it best and stylish design

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                        • Anonymous
                        • mAt
                        • 09 May 2014

                        Can we please have a P7 Windows phone? Pretty please?

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                          • Azn
                          • 0wA
                          • 09 May 2014

                          It looks like the Sony Xperia Z1 and Z2 :)

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                            • AnonD-251095
                            • i5S
                            • 09 May 2014

                            AnonD-142922, 08 May 2014that's bullcrap .. they will hide if u watch video or game ... moreBut they are there when browsing the web ?

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                              • Ryck
                              • 9J1
                              • 08 May 2014

                              Huawei P6 had many problems besides battery life and processor benchmarks, let me mention a few:
                              - GPS is absolutely useless. The phone used to just switch off the GPS for no reason whatsoever, and not even a restart would switch it on again. basically useless for car driving. Many times if left me stranded and lost and i had to return to my 4 years old iphone 4 for guidance.

                              - integration with car is very poor. you connect it to the usb and the phone's memory card becomes a usb flash. the bad side of this is that the GPS apps like sygic stores the maps in the memory card, so the GPS becomes useless once you connect the p6 to the car usb. Very far from the great integration of IOS to a car (I have a chevrolet)
                              - Voice dialing does not work with the phone blocked and there is no setting to change this. So basically you have to key in your password before use voice dialing... what is the point of that??. for some reason it works with some (not all) bluetooth headsets but it does not work with the wired headset or with the speaker.

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                                • 4GV
                                • 08 May 2014

                                Bulgarian reviewer? Good!

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • m5b
                                  • 08 May 2014

                                  Jason Melling, 08 May 2014I agree about on screen keys. I will NOT buy a phone with o... moreThey disappear when playing a game or watching a video though. They only take up the bottom centimetre when flicking through the home screens or menus.
                                  I've got on screen buttons on my current phone but had capacitive on my previous phone. Never made a difference to me.

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                                    • K2E
                                    • 08 May 2014

                                    Bad sides of Ascend P6 :
                                    1. Audio
                                    2. No NFC
                                    3. No 4G
                                    4. Bad battery-life
                                    5. Poor CPU
                                    6. Average camera
                                    Bad sides of Ascend P7:
                                    1. Poor CPU
                                    2. Average camera
                                    So, I see good improvement in Huawei . May the next P-series will be a great improved and competitive one .

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 39k
                                      • 08 May 2014

                                      Anonymous, 08 May 2014I don't know.maybe 4k and 120 fps hd video?oh! Wait maybe f... moreIf those phones had 4K and 120Hz screens I would agree with you. But filming in 4K and playing it on a 1080p screen is kind of stupid. I also think that 4K itself is retarded, and I would rather take high quality FullHD than that bloated video. Just make perfect 1080p @ 23,973FPS video. Blu-ray videos are either 23,973 or 23,976fps, but phones "need" 60 or 120fps shooting mode and for what?

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                                        • MrGrumpy
                                        • Dnh
                                        • 08 May 2014

                                        Jason Melling, 08 May 2014I agree about on screen keys. I will NOT buy a phone with o... more+1

                                        Agree doubly, on-screen keys are the work of the devil and I hate them. As for the P7, looks great, really liked the P6 and emotion UI but where's the battery test? And does this still have the built in profile thing? Don't care about weedy CPU, will ever use it for games but camera looks good and the finish is stunning. Oh, and lets hope the notification LED is bigger so you can actually see the thing.