Huawei announced that it is showcasing the first high speed packet access evolved (HSPA+) Android powered smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The U8800 runs Android 2.1 (Eclair) and has a 3.8-inch display. According to Huawei, the phone can achieve downlink speeds up to 14Mbps, or the equivalent speed of downloading a 400Mb film in 30 seconds.

About two months ago, a Huawei representative said that the company would launch an Android smartphone via T-Mobile Europe in Q3 2009. That smartphone should have been the Huawei 8230, officially announced not too long ago. However, it looks like T-Mobile has another Huawei Android handset prepared, namely the Huawei 8220.

Huawei is readying two new touchscreen phones for the Chinese market: C7300 and T550+. The first one, Huawei C7300, is a CDMA2000 phone, and thus it will probably be launched by China Telecom. The features of C7300 are rather modest, including: 2.5 inch QVGA touchscreen display with 65k colors, GPS, handwriting recognition, 2MP camera, MP3 player and MicroSD card support. The phone weighs 110 grams, measures 109.4 x 57.6 x 14.2 millimeters and looks like this: The second new phone, Huawei T550+, features both GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity, hence being made...