Guest hecatae Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 The Huawei Ascend Y100 is just 10.9mm thick, it has an 800MHz processor and runs Android Gingerbread 2.3. Did I mention it's only £24.99! So let's cover the basics of the device, it has: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 256K colors display at a resolution of QVGA 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches (~143 ppi pixel density)Internal memory of 512 MB ROM, but also has a Micro SD slotA Qualcomm MSM7225A Snapdragon cpu running at 800 mhz, with Adreno 200 dedicated gpu, and 256 MB RAMCamera, without flash, shooting at 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels, and VGA 640x480 Video capture at 30 frames per secondLi-Ion 1050 mAh battery, and a weight of 100 grams Ok, it wont win any awards, but for £24.99 or potentially £19.94 via TopCashBack, it's worth purchasing for development alone. If more developers made sure their games ran on QVGA displays, like Super Hexagon by Terry Cavanagh, QVGA device owners would purchase more games. [Via: O2] Click here to view the item Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Soup Thief Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Stick an old high capacity micro SD in it and you've got yourself a very reasonable wifi drive for a Nexus or other device. Crazy cheap! Pity it's probably locked to O2, making it useless as a mobile phone for most. Alternatively you can use it to skim across a pond if you've no pebbles to hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest everett_psycho Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 Whack a big memory card in there, install power amp and you got an mp3 player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Skip Tracer Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Certainly make a very cheap Mifi device for the GiffGaff network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 Certainly make a very cheap Mifi device for the GiffGaff network. and with dat connection of up to 7.2mbps download and 5.76mbps upload it would be rude not to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel Meah Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 does it have working HSUPA? most of these cheap hsdpa phones only have hsdpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted February 9, 2013 Report Share Posted February 9, 2013 it's an msm7225a which is armv7 and has 7.2mbps download and 5.76mbps upload, I have a LG Optimus L3 and a ZTE V790 on the same chipset and they both have HSUPA enabled, so unless Huawei have been naughty then yes it does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest toge64 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 can someone confirm that this device can be rooted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Soup Thief Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Try the first one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 cm9 for this device http://mjanja.co.ke/2012/10/compiling-cyanogenmod-9-for-the-huawei-u8185/ alanorth is the developer who got it booting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pain_Deluxe Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Stripped Stock or CM7.2 and go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jamoiholland Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Meh, thought this might be a nice one for a family member, on the stock Huawei ROM, but just unboxed, tried to update the pre-installed apps, and it is already out of space :-S Why do I keep buying these cheap devices when the tiny internal storage space for apps almost always bites! Will have to give this a go, but always nervous giving devices to family members with customs ROMs, as any niggling bugs will come back to me for support! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ocaderan Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Meh, thought this might be a nice one for a family member, on the stock Huawei ROM, but just unboxed, tried to update the pre-installed apps, and it is already out of space :-S Why do I keep buying these cheap devices when the tiny internal storage space for apps almost always bites! Will have to give this a go, but always nervous giving devices to family members with customs ROMs, as any niggling bugs will come back to me for support! perhaps you could make a partition on the SD card to use as internal memory for apps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 and it is no longer sold by O2, completely sold out on website and Huawei removed from list of brands on pay as you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jamoiholland Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 perhaps you could make a partition on the SD card to use as internal memory for apps? Same as a custom ROM though, anything out of the ordinary that has chance of backfiring or require use of app2SD or similar every time something gets installed just doesn't fly with non-geeks, and will only create me hassle later on, hence I was after the stock/normal experience Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unrandomsam Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Has anyone worked out the method dc unlocker uses on huawei phones yet ? I think it is really simple and unchanging .... (Not harder than booting a QPST enabled kernel and running a few commands that are different to the normal ones.) Should have got the Lumia 620 from O2 at £120 missed it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted February 17, 2013 Report Share Posted February 17, 2013 Has anyone worked out the method dc unlocker uses on huawei phones yet ? I think it is really simple and unchanging .... (Not harder than booting a QPST enabled kernel and running a few commands that are different to the normal ones.) Should have got the Lumia 620 from O2 at £120 missed it though. yes, they use the same method on huawei and zte modems... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unrandomsam Posted February 17, 2013 Report Share Posted February 17, 2013 The algorithm is different for the phones. And I think the commands are different from qualcomm standard on newer phones and modems. (i.e the one to enable diag etc etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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