Huawei G520: the smartphone where you get what you pay for

Huawei, one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, has introduced the G520 smartphone, which it intends to sell for only US$225 in China (at first). That is not a shabby price at all, and would fall into a lot of users pockets. According to the specs, it’s not looking too bad either. Running on Android 4.0, it will have a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a 4.5-inch In-Plane Switching technology (IPS) touchscreen display and be powered by a 1.2GHz Mediatek MT6589 CPU.

So basically you get what you pay for, and the only mildly dodgy aspect would be the 512MB RAM, but on Ice Cream Sandwich it should run quite well. Its first stop-off point for sale will be China, with a 21 January release date set.

Huawei is relatively quiet as a company even though it is respected on a global scale with an impressive line of smartphones. The introduction of such an affordable smartphone by a respected company could start the next revolution that Steve Jobs probably never thought off: making smart mobile devices that almost everyone can afford.