Aug 31, 2011 07:25 GMT  ·  By

Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei focuses aggressively on building low- and mid-end Android smartphone, which is the main reason it is not a major player in the market, yet.

According to the guys over at LandOfDroid, Huawei has just released a high-end device that should take over as the company's flagship smartphone.

Dubbed Huawei Honor or U8860, the phone was showcased at the China Unicom WCDMA Summit held in Shanghai, along with two other mysterious smartphones known as U9000 (X6) and U8520, which are expected to launch soon.

Unfortunately, it appears that the Honor will be exclusively launched by China Unicom carrier, but we might see this one coming in Europe and Asia as well.

Currently, the phone does not support WCDMA bands to be released in North America, but if intended, Huawei will probably launch it under a different moniker.

Looking at the phone's specs sheet, Huawei Honor is indeed the most powerful Android smartphone announced by the Chinese company to date.

The smartphone is powered by Google's Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) platform and is only 9.9mm thick, which makes it one of the slimmest as well.

Furthermore, Huawei Honor is equipped with a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and sports a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and 720p HD recording capabilities.

We assume that it's a single core CPU, otherwise Huawei would have probably mentioned it on the phone's specs sheet.

Huawei Honor comes with a 4-inch LCD FWVGA capacitive multi-touch display and high-capacity 1930 mAh battery, which should provide a long autonomy.

In addition, the handset features WCDMA 900 / 2100 MHz and HSPA (14.4Mbps) support, as well as Adobe Flash 10.1 and Wi-Fi connectivity. Access to “abundant” Google applications is also included, Huawei claims.

No word on the phone's pricing options or released date, but Huawei Honor is China only for the moment.