Huawei
G7 Plus
Huawei's upper-midrange
G line of smartphones has gained a new member starting today: the G7 Plus. This
is a model that's clearly meant to be positioned as the successor to the Ascend
G7 from last year, and as such it improves upon its predecessor in many areas.
The Huawei G7 Plus
comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p touchscreen with 2.5D Gorilla Glass on top, a 13 MP
rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, a 5 MP selfie snapper, Qualcomm's
Snapdragon 615 chipset at the helm (with 1.5 GHz octa-core CPU), 3 GB of RAM,
32 GB of expandable storage, dual-SIM functionality, 4G LTE, and a 3,000 mAh
battery.
It runs Android 5.1
with Huawei's own EMUI 3.1. Its dimensions are 152.5 x 76.5 x 7.5 mm, and it
weighs 167 grams. The G7 Plus is made out of 90% metal, with only a couple of
plastic panels on the back that hide its various antennas. There's a
fingerprint scanner under the rear camera.
The phone should
receive an update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow in February of next year. It's
being priced at around US$ 330 sans contract, and will be offered in three color
versions - silver, grey, and gold. Right now it's only gone official in
Thailand, but we expect it to launch in many more countries soon.
