Cheaper Android devices showing up, Huawei Ascend

The Android platform is seeing heaps of great phones these days, giving us a range of devices suited for our very different and individual needs and giving the competition SOMETHING to think about, but one common thing I keep seeing is the price of each device, tending to the very high, or the on-contract/plans with the telcos that locks the users in with no (or little option) to upgrade (something that is mostly needed in this uprising tech/mobile/information world.

Here’s where Huawei (know for their excellent, cheaper alternative for very expensive products, I’ve used a few and was always satisfied) comes in with the Ascend and here are the specifications, making it a phone, admittedly with no shine, but yet a device that will provide you with the basic, useful smartphone capabilities:

• 3.5 inch, 320×480 screen, multi-touch, capacitive
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• Android 2.1 (Eclair)
• 600 Mhz processor
• US $150 price tag, out right, no contract!!!
• CDMA network for the moment…
• Available end of October through CricKet Wireless

The Crosswave in this video seems to be a WiFi hotspot, seems cool

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