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Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, known for its budget Android handset, Ideos; has announced its debut into the premium smartphone world. Called Vision, the smartphone is currently still in its prototype stage, but the company expects the device to compete with the big boys in the industry – Samsung, and HTC. The phone will pack a 3.7” display and will ship with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The operating system will have Huawei’s own customized 3D interface (similar to what HTC has for its own devices).

Specs haven’t been revealed, but they’re expected to be along the lines of the current high-end smartphones (dual-core processors, 4G connectivity, front facing camera etc). Huawei also mentioned that the Vision should be upgradable to Icecream Sandwich at the end of 2011. The Huawei Vision is expected to be launched in the second half of 2011 and will cost between $410 (£250) and $657 (£400).

Sharp has just released a new Android phone in China, the Sharp SH7218U. The handset is a clamshell phone and has dual screen.

The first screen is a 1.4-inch OLED external display with resolution of 192×64 pixel and showing phone status, also call ID. The second screen is a rotating 3.4-inch Mobile ASV touchscreen display with multitouch and resolution of 480 x 854 pixels.

Sharp SH7218U clamshell Android phone is boasts a 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, and runs Android 2.2.1 with Sharp Dian Xin UI.

This Sharp SH7218U flip smartphone is equipped with Wi-Fi, micro USB port, and microSD card slot. Dimensions of Sharp SH7218U are 111 x 50 x 20.8 mm and weight 143 grams.

LG has rolled out its new Android smartphone called the LG Optimus Life. The handset is comes with a lot of marvelous features and various color options – silver, aqua blue, pink, red, and titan.

LG Optimus Life smartphone is brings a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen TFT display with resolution of 240 x 320 pixel, virtual QWERTY keypad, a 3.0MP camera with resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels and 4x digital zoom, 170MB internal memory, Micro SD card slot with expandable up to 32GB, and runs Android 2.2 Froyo operating system.

The LG Optimus Life Android smartphone is packs GPRS Class 12, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, 3G HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, GPS with A-GPS support, HTML browser, media player, FM radio, and a 1280 mAH Li-ion battery that allowing up to 4 hours in talktime, up to 100 hours of standby mode.