Huawei will be unveiling its new Ascend P7 flagship smart phone very soon on the 7th of May. Usually manufacturers would release their “standard-sized” flagship product first before revealing its additional variants of different specs and sizes. Surprisingly before the Ascend P7 is officially announced, its Ascend P7 mini has been quietly revealed with a compact design and runs on a different set of internals.
Being a smaller sibling, the Ascend P7 mini comes with a 4.5″ qHD resolution (960×540) TFT display while the design of the device is similar to its current aluminium-clad Ascend P6. Powering the device is a 1.2GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and 1GB of RAM with 8GB of storage, which is also found on the cheap and cheerful Moto G.
For imaging, it packs a 8MP rear camera and a front facing 5MP unit. It also gets a expandable microSD slot and the device is juiced up with a decent 2,000mAh capacity battery. While this is a notch below the current Ascend P6, the P7 mini does support 4G LTE up to 150Mbps which is a nice addition. Overall, it is slightly thicker at 7.8mm but it is quite a featherweight at just 115 grams.
Out of the box, it runs on Android 4.3 along with Huawei’s own Emotion UI. So far there’s no word on its pricing but it looks like it is heading to Europe first.
