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The weeks leading up to CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, are usually slow, but a new Android smartphone, the Huawei Mercury, is heating things up for Cricket.
At least, that’s what Cricket hopes will happen with the phone it’s claiming as its most advanced ever.
Previously known as the Huawei Honor (see review) or Glory, the Mercury boasts a 4-inch FWVGA touch screen (480×854-pixel resolution), a 1.4GHz processor, an 8-megapixel camera with HD video capture, and a front-facing camera (with a basic VGA resolution). The device has 2GB of internal storage. Cricket’s new tethering plan lets you use the Mercury to provide an Internet connection to up to five other devices.
Although the Mercury ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Cricket apparently hasn’t decided whether it will upgrade the device to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, according to a Cricket representative.
The Huawei Mercury is available now and costs $249.99 without a contract.
