I agree! It's a beautiful new phone and I'm anxious for it to be released here in the US.
Cricket is going to be one of the Carriers for this phone, as was announced by Matt Stoiber, V. President and General Manager of Devices, just a couple of days ago in Vegas.
I'm sure it will be reasonably priced compared to the other androids offered by the 'contract' carriers.
Specs:
General
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 / AWS HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 / AWS
Announced 2010, December
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2011, May Size
Dimensions 122 x 66 x 10 mm
Weight 143 g Display
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.1 inches - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Touch-sensitive controls
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off Sound
Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes - 3.5 mm audio jack
- Dolby mobile sound enhancement Memory
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 2 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB ROM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash) up to 32GB Data
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
3G HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, (DLNA - carrier dependent)
Bluetooth Yes v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0 Camera
Primary 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging
Video Yes, 720p@30fps
Secondary VGA videocall camera Features
OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 1 GHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser Yes
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games Yes
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application - Digital compass
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk
- TV-out (720p video) via HDMI port
- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player
- MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264/DivX player
- Organizer
- Photo viewer/editor
- Adobe Flash 10.1
- Voice memo/dial
- Predictive text input Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand-by
Talk time
I'm hoping a Moderator will see this and create a Huawei IDEOS X5 topic in the Phones forum.