Previously Huawei had introduced IDEOS, U8300 and U8500 smartphones in the Pakistan, as well as its IDEOS S7 Slim Tablet and now Huawei has introduced IDEOS X5 (U8800) in Pakistan which gives high performance, sleek-look credit to its ultra-slim design moreover the efficient capacitive touchscreen is the fine point to this handset. Ideos X5 comes pre-installed with Android 2.2 and Google applications. It is a capable device and consists of everything that a smartphone should have. Below are the complete specifications of the device:

• Dimension: IDEOS X5 is based on a dimension of 120 x 62 x 11.6 mm and beneath the display there are four Touch-sensitive controls
• Network operating bands: This handset works on 2G networks with operating frequency bands: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and is also capable of supporting 3G networks with operating frequency bands: HSDPA 900 / 2100
• Display: The display is TFT capacitive touchscreen based on 16M colors measured at 3.8 inches with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and also supports multi-touch. Additionaly it features Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate.
• Memory: The onboard memory of this handset is 2/4 GB and the memory card slot can support up to 32 GB of Micro SD card (Transflash)
• Connectivity Options: GPRS class 10 / EDGE class 10 (236.8 kbps) / HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps (U8800H) / 7.2 Mbps (U8800); HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps are supported as well as WI-FI 802.11 b/g/n is supported. Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP and Micro USB v2.0 is there to cope with your sharing needs
• Processor: The processor inside is (Scorpion Qualcomm MSM 7230 chipset) ticking at a clock speed of 800MHz and Adreno 205 GPU will sure boost the performance
• Operating System: Android v2.2 (Froyo) is operating this device
• Camera: It equips a 5 MP camera (auto-focus) with LED-Flash based on a resolution of 2592х1944 pixels and also features GEO-Tagging, besides the camera is capable of recording 720p@30fps videos. However there is no secondary camera, but that doesn’t counts much of a difference
• Multi-Media: It supports SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail and Instant Messaging which includes SNS integration Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk. It is capable of supporting MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player and MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 player media formats. Unfortunately Radio is missing but there is a 3.5mm audio jack with Dolby Mobile sound enhancement and a loudspeaker also. It sure has Adobe Flash 10.1 and Document viewer for your office documents
• GPS: Consist of A-GPS support
• Battery: Li-Po 1500 mAh is working inside the hood which gives a stand-by time of up to 300 hours when on 2G mode and Up to 350 hours when on 3G mode, the talk-time it offers on 2G mode is 6 hours and when on 3G mode it gives a talk-time of up to 4 hours.

Huawei has sure done a great job introducing smartphones to the populace of Pakistan at reasonable costs which will give them full advantage to rapidly grow in the segment of smartphone devices in Pakistan. The price tag IDEOS X5 gets is Rs.30,500 (approx.) and is available in black color.