Huawei is working on a cheap Android-smartphone with support for near field communication. The Huawei Sonic is the first cheap Android smartphone with the technology for mobile payments.
The Huawei Sonic runs on a Qualcomm MSM7227, ARM11 processor which is in the Sonic is clocked at 600MHz. The smartphone has a 3.5″ capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 480×320 pixels, so it came Tweakers.net for ore. The Sonic runs on Android 2.3.3. The Huawei smartphone has the specifications of a low-end to mid-range smartphone.
The Sonic is the first in its price range with support for nfc, a technology which is used for mobile payments and transferring data over a short distance. The Google Nexus S was the first Android smartphone with nfc, but in the half-year since the release of that unit were there, not much: the most toptoestellen are equipped without the technology. Samsung makes the Galaxy S II versions with and without nfc, but the European version has the nfc chip on board.
Google puts big on nfc: the search giant released the Nexus S Android phone with nfc, but it also introduced its own nfc payment solution Wallet. Nfc has been around since the beginning of this century, but never had the breakthrough. There’s also going to for months, rumors about a next iPhone with nfc. Nokia rest new smartphones also with the technique.
There is for as far as known, no Dutch release for the device. The device would be released with the Spanish carrier Yoigo and the Turkish telco Turkcell. Huawei usually makes appliances under the name of a major provider in the shops. Recently, the American institute FCC the device. All phones should be release by the institute be checked on, inter alia, the amount of radiation being emitted.
