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Huawei rounds out its mid-range Android phones with the Ascend G7, G620S, and Y550

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Huawei rounded out its mid-to-low-end smartphone offerings with the introduction of three new phones at IFA 2014. The Ascend G7 is the company’s all-metal mid-range offering, while the Ascend G620S and Ascend Y550 make up the budget end.

Ascend G7

The Ascend G7 features an all-metal body and a 5.5-inch screen with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution. Huawei added a 1.2GHz quad-core 64-bit processor and 2GB of RAM to power the G7. The low-end processor is really what makes the G7 a mid-range phone instead of a premium one. The phone comes with 16GB of built-in storage, which can be expanded up to 64GB using a MicroSD card.

Related: Huawei Ascend P7 review

The phone comes with a 13-megapixel back camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing selfie camera. It also has a 3,000mAh battery, which should keep it juiced up for more than a full day. The all-metal build gives the G7 a classy look and feel, despite the mid-range specs. Overall, the G7 looks to be a prime middle-of-the-road device.

Huawei will reportedly ship the device in November for around 270 euros or $355.

Ascend G620S

The Huawei Ascend G620S looks a lot like one of Samsung’s faux leather plastic smartphones in terms of design, but it has solidly mid-to-low-end specs. The phone has a 5-inch screen with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and is powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 401 quad-core processor and 1GB RAM.

Related: Huawei Ascend Mate 7 takes on the iPhone with its own fingerprint scanner

The G620S sports just 8GB of internal storage, but luckily it’s expandable up to 32GB via a MicroSD card. Huawei placed an 8-megapixel camera on the back of the phone and a 2-megapixel camera on its front.

The Ascend G620S should arrive in late October and cost around £150-200 or $250-$330. It’s unknown if this phone will reach the United States, but we think it’s doubtful.

Ascend Y550

The Ascend Y550 is definitely a budget phone with low-end specs. The Y550 has a 4.5-inch screen with a miserly 854 x 480 pixel resolution. The budget phone is powered by the same processor and amount of RAM as the Ascend G620S. The Y550 comes with a 5-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. the device only has 4GB of internal storage, but a MicroSD card slot allows you to expand it. Huawei also added a 2000mAh battery.

The phone will cost about £99, which amounts to about $165 when it debuts in October.

Malarie Gokey
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