Huawei unveils Ascend W2

A new Windows 8 smartphone, Ascend W2 has been unveiled by Huawei, offering a range of vibrant finishes including black, blue, yellow, and red. 

Featuring a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core 1.4GHz processor, HUAWEI Ascend W2 comes equipped with a 4.3-inch IPS WVGA LCD screen, providing a brighter and vivid display. 

Powered by Windows Phone 8, HUAWEI Ascend W2 offers personal smartphone experience with Live Tiles.

The Windows Phone Store offers more than 175,000 apps, including Pandora, Hulu Plus, Tumblr and Halo: Spartan Assault. More than 20 coloured homescreen themes are available for HUAWEI Ascend W2. As a Windows Phone, HUAWEI Ascend W2 is cloud connected, so content can flow fluidly from screen to screen.  

“Building on the popularity of our first Windows Phone 8 device, HUAWEI Ascend W1, we created HUAWEI Ascend W2 so value-savvy people don’t have to compromise on great technology. HUAWEI Ascend W2 provides an enhanced visual experience and impressive standby time, and can be customized inside and out with splashes of colour,” said Kevin Ho, President of Handset Product Line, Huawei Consumer Business Group.

The HUAWEI Ascend W2 TD version became available in China from August and the HUAWEI Ascend W2 UMTS version began shipping to China from October 2013. HUAWEI Ascend W2 will become available in Russia and the Netherlands from November, with other markets to follow.