Huawei Ascend G300

Let's be clear, the Huawei Ascend G300 was never going to be hot enough to set the world alight, but coming in at £100 (around $160) on PAYG, it's not going to burn a hole in your pocket. Fitting a 1GHz processor, 5MP camera with flash and 4-inch...

Large screen and okay performance at a bargain...

Like other entry-level Huawei handsets before it, the G300 is excellent value for money. What it lacks in polish, it makes up for with its decent features and...

The Huawei G300 is offered at an extremely attractive in price. With Android smartphone prices dropping through the floor recently, with some handsets available for as little as £40 on Pay as You Go it's sometimes hard to gauge why one is better than...

Huawei’s Ascend G300 (also billed as the U8815) is a lower-mid-range smartphone running Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’.While not marketed as such, the G300 feels like an upgrade to last year’s Ideos X5 – a phone we rated highly for delivering performance...

The Huawei Ascend G300 successfully redefines how much value you can expect to get from a phone that costs less than $200. While not perfect, it has an excellent design, a great screen and intuitive software that performs well. Without a doubt the...

Huawei might not be a name you're familiar with, but the chances are you've read reviews of its handsets and may even have one, as it has been producing hardware that gets rebadged by mobile operators for many years.Now, though, the company is selling...

I’d suggest this is the first budget Android phone that doesn’t require the user to sacrifice anything vital in the name of impecunity. The G300 does everything the majority of smartphone users will want, does them well, and is as cheap as chips. At...

Let's get this out the way first: it's hard to be believe the Huawei Ascend G300 costs just £100 on a Vodafone PAYG tariff. Why? Because it looks so blimmin' lovely, that's why. We're not talking HTC One X or iPhone 4S levels of gorgeousness; that would...

Huawei's Ascend G 300 has a few shortcomings in comparison to the best smartphones on the market - namely, a low storage capacity, an inferior build, a less-capable camera and only a single-core processor - but its performance is well above that of...

Catwalk design, charity shop priceHuawei hasn't scrimped on the design to keep the price low. The Ascend G300 has the build quality of a much more expensive phone, with its silver and white colour scheme reminiscent of the £400 HTC Sensation XL. The...

For a first trip on the smartphone rollercoaster the Huawei G300 takes some beating, with its large, sharp four-inch screen and fast 1GHz processor. It suffers in comparison with pricier rivals, but against its brethren a notch above the Android entry...

At just £100 or free on a £15.50 contract, pound-for-pound, the Ascend G 300 is one of the best Android devices on the market. Huawei gets all the basics right and we can look past the Android Gingerbread 2.3 interface and mediocre camera when the...

The Huawei Ascend G300 is a large screened handset, whose stylish build makes it look more expensive than it is. Its Android version is old, but that might not bother people working on a budget. Pros: The G300 looks like a more expensive handset than it...