Reviewers Liked
- Excellent battery life
- Highly customisable UI
- Low cost 4G
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Dull design
- Mediocre screen
- Tiny internal storage
Huawei Ascend Y550
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By PC Authority
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A $99 smartphone really should be a whole lot worse than this. Huawei's Ascend Y550 doesn't look or feel ‘cheap', unless it's sitting next to one of the aluminium premium devices. It sports a quad-core Cortex A53 1.2GHz CPU, with a 480 x 854 screen, upon...
By Trusted Reviews
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The Huawei Ascend Y550 isn't a top-performing phone but offers decent insides and 4G at a low...
By MobilePhones
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When you pick up the Huawei Ascend Y550 you will notice that even though it has a plastic shell it does feel solid, suggesting that it should take the odd knock or too without any problems . Size wise it fits nicely into the mini category of smartphones...
By CoolSmartphone
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Cast your mind back to January 2013 and you may remember the Huawei Ascend G330 . It looked like this..The moment I unboxed the Y550 it instantly reminded me of the G330 above. Sure, the Y550 is a bit bigger and has a larger screen (4.5″ on the Y550 with...
By cnet
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Even with its affordable price, the Huawei Ascend Y550 offers little to get excited about. If you're after a budget Android phone, you'd be wise to look...
By Tech-Reviews UK
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With 3G quickly becoming “old tech”, it's time to make way for the new. The Huawei Ascend Y550 is a budget smartphone that features 4G LTE technology, a zippy 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm processor and a 4.5 inch IPS display. It all sounds great on paper,...
By geeksquad.co.uk
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It seems that there's a new phone getting released every week, and it's easy to get confused as all the manufacturers attempt to grab your attention with snappy marketing and bewildering spec-sheets.Amidst all the noise it can be very difficult to work...
By Recombu
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Buy it for the right reasons Despite some pretty uninspiring first impressions, the Huawei Ascend Y550 actually packs a lot of nice and even some distinctive power-user features into a low-to-mid range specced device. There's obvious work that could...
By geeksquad.co.uk
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The Huawei Ascend Y550 offers 4G connectivity at a bargain price, but is it too good to be true? Agent Lee finds out.Huawei IS now well established in the UK with ITS range of affordable smartphones and its latest offering, the Ascend Y550, is aiming to...
By Pocket-lint
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Huawei has announced the Ascend Y550, a new budget device that it hopes will make it easier for everyone to get on to 4G. The budget end of the smartphone ladder has been really interesting of late: devices like the Moto E and Moto G have really...
By TechRadar
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The Hauwei Ascend Y550 comes running Android 4.4 KitKat, but it's been given the Chinese firm's heavy overlay in the form of the Emotion UI. It's a slightly upgraded version of the software we saw on handsets at MWC earlier this year, with the Y550...
By mobileos.it
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Huawei Ascend Y530 VS Huawei Ascend Y550 VS Huawei Ascend Y520: in questo articolo ci occuperemo di tre dispositivi tutti dell'azienda cinese Huawei, che hanno come elemento di unione il prezzo particolarmente basso e le buone prestazioni; faremo il...
By Computer Bild
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Das Huawei Ascend Y550 ist eins der günstigsten LTE-Smartphones überhaupt. Im Test bot es eine intuitive Bedienung, ein passable Display und ordentliche Akkulaufzeit. Dennoch gibt es zwei Haken, die gegen einen Kauf sprechen: Der für Apps viel zu kleine...
By AreaMobile
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Es geht immer noch besser: Waren wir im Test des Wiko Birdy 4G davon überzeugt, ein für den niedrigen Preis richtig gutes Smartphone in der Hand zu halten (was auch nach wie vor so ist), so kommt mit dem Huawei Ascend Y550 ein noch günstigeres Modell...
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