Hasta La Gadget!

As you might’ve noticed, CES 2013 didn’t turn out much in they way of smartphone reveals. Most of the mobile industry’s big guns held back their reserves (Sony aside), prepping behind-the-scenes for Barcelona’s world stage and ceding this Vegas showcase to lesser known Chinese OEMs. So before we bid adieu to these vast convention halls and tuck in for the impending reviews, we’ve decided to roundup the show’s only flagships — ZTE’s Grand S, Huawei’s Ascend Mate and D2 and Sony’s Xperia Z / ZL — and pit them head-to-head in preliminary performance testing. Follow along after the break to find out which handset earns the top spot in this benchmark battle.

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Huawei’s daring to dream big — at least, that’s what prior leaks regarding its latest Android lineup have seemed to indicate. And here at CES 2013, the company’s finally formally introduced the Ascend D2, referred to by company Chairman Richard Yu as the “dream phone.” Its top shelf specs — 5-inch 1080p display, quad-core 1.5GHz K3V3 CPU, Android Jelly Bean, 13-megapixel rear camera and 3,000mAh battery — certainly merit that distinction, but as pie in the sky smartphone ambitions go, its 6.1-inch stablemate, the Ascend Mate, takes the cake.

The Ascend 2 has a 443 ppi 5-inch display panel which is 1,080 x 1,920. As for the camera, the 13-megapixel shooter has an f/2.2 aperture, a 5P lens and a hybrid IR filter. Audio-wise, super hands free will allow you to talk to the device (and hear the conversation) up to 2 meters away. It has a whopping 3,000 mAH battery in it, and is both dustproof and waterproof.

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Huawei has already left little doubt as to what we’ll see from its smartphone line at CES. If official teasers aren’t enough, however, well-known phone tipster @evleaks has given Unwired View what’s purported to be press images for the three key introductions. The Ascend W1 Windows Phone (at left) looks much like we’ve seen from live shots, just with newer black and pink hues; the Ascend D2 (right) isn’t quite so rainbow-like, but supports what’s been claimed of the 5-inch phone’s aesthetic and custom interface. A shot for the Ascend Mate (after the break), despite representing the company’s stand-out device, is the least surprising given that executive Richard Yu showed customers the real thing just days ago. We’d still give these images a long look — while there’s chances for inaccuracies or surprises, they may be the best glimpses of Huawei’s early 2013 lineup before we see it first-hand.

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