Huawei Ascend Y100 Review

by Paul Wilks Jun 11, 2012 11:27 AM – 7 Comments

The Huawei Ascend Y100 is an entry level Android device that’s cheap, cheerful and has a surprisingly reasonable set of specifications. It’s 800Mhz single core processor isn’t particularly powerful, but is still nippier than some devices. The dinky 2.8″ touchscreen is pleasingly capacitive rather than resistive, and while the resolution is quite low (it reminded me of the HTC Wildfire) images are relatively crisp and bright.

The Y100 comes packed with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Huawei’s own UI which is quite discreet compared with the likes of HTC’s Sense or Samsung Touchwiz. The camera is just 2 mega pixels but images looks pretty good and the shutter was surprisingly fast. It also comes with 512MB of storage, but also has a Micro SD slot that you can expand up to 32GB. Add to this WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 and you have a nicely-featured little phone that very inexpensive.

While it will never compete with either mid-range or top-end Android devices, the Y100 is perfect as a ‘my first smartphone’ device. In the short time I had to play with the device I found it easy to use and intuitive, reminding me a little of HTC’s first Wildfire. The Huawei Ascend Y100 was released on the 1st June and is currently only available via the O2 network in the U.K., costing just £69.99 (around $110).

Huawei Ascend Y100 video

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Huawei Ascend Y100 specs

Talk time (hours) up to 315 mins (3G)
Standby time (days) 514 hours
Size- 106 x 56 x 10.9mm
Weight 100g
Screen- 2.8 inch capacitive touchscreen
512BM internal memory
microSD slot- up to 32GB
Android 2.3 Gingerbread
2MP camera
30fps video capture
Music player handles: MP3, AAC, AMR-NB, MIDI, OGG and WAV
FM Radio
Data Connectivity: HSDPA, WLAN 2.4 and b/g/n 3G
Band type: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS 900/2100
Bluetooth 2.1
GPS

Huawei Ascend Y100 pictures

: Huawei Ascend Y100 on O2

: Huawei Ascend Y100 Front & Side Views

: Huawei Ascend Y100 Front & Back Views

: Huawei Ascend Y100 Custom Back Covers

: Huawei Ascend Y100 Specs

Developer: Huawei

Tags: 2.3, Android App, Android Apps, AndroidTapp.com App Review, Gingerbread, Huawei, Huawei Ascend Y100, Huawei Ascend Y100 Review, Y100

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7 Comments

By brianwits on July 24, 2012 at 10:32 pm:

hi
how can i root the huawei ascend y 100.are there also available Rom for the device

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By Nahashon on September 19, 2012 at 1:35 pm:

How to root Ascend Y100; Use fastboot to port clockworkmod recovery image, available on the net; cmd line then type; fastboot flash recovery clockworkmod_5
.5.0.4_u8185.img

then reboot into clockworkmod and flash superuser.zip

you are rooted!

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By Ruth May on November 22, 2012 at 9:18 am:

Why everytime I download something in play store, it shares its capacities in the internal storage as well in the SD card. it always give notification of low storage yet i still have 3GB on my SD card. please help me, what should i do?

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- By Antonio Wells on November 22, 2012 at 10:45 am:
  
  @Ruth are you sure the apps are indeed being installed to your SD card and not internal memory? The best way to check is to go to the Settings under Applications. This shows all the apps install and more than likely they have been installed to internal storage. If the apps support them (not all support this and do not do this on apps with widgets as they’ll stop working), go through each and click them to see if you can Move to SD Card. Hope this helps!
  
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By mac on February 20, 2013 at 7:27 pm:

can you give some intructions and link on how to root this phone????

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By dennis david on April 11, 2013 at 6:01 am:

Hi,,how can i upgrade the sppeed of my y100 to avoid hanging due to it havin many applications like whatsapp,go sms and more others…?kindly help me out..

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By Rajesh on May 8, 2013 at 10:38 pm:

guys can you tell me how is this huawei y100 phone overall ?? is there any problem with this phone if anyone using it …plz tell ur review ??

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