Huawei Mercury Prepaid Android Phone Deals

By Marie - 

This review is from: Huawei Mercury Prepaid Android Phone (Cricket) (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I bought this phone with Cricket service and it is amazing! It is super fast, easy to use and best of all it supports flash. It also has an amazing 8 mp rear camera with flash and a forward facing camera for video chat and easy self portraits! After owning this phone I have absolutely no desire for an IPhone or any other overpriced phone. I get great service, this is a premium phone and it is a great price for $199 LOVE IT!!! Oh yeah, and the voice searching features are 100% EVERY TIME!

 By Joshua L. Coleman -
This review is from: Huawei Mercury Prepaid Android Phone (Cricket) (Wireless Phone Accessory)
...this phone is fantastic. It's fast; faster than, or at least equal to, an iPhone. I'm not an Apple fanboi, so I wanted a smartphone that ran Android and had decent speed. I also didn't want to pay $130 to a 'contract' based service, for one month of phone service. That was just outrageous. SO, I went with this phone, the Huawei Mercury M886. (I often joke with friends that the name of the company that makes it, Huawei, is pronounced to sound like "Who are we??"...a little tongue-in-cheek. I know it's not actually pronounced like that, but it's still amusing.) They also make Cricket's other popular phones, the Ascend and Ascend II. The Mercury though, seems to be their premiere and fastest smartphone, and as I've stated, it works great, except for one thing.

Now for the issue: The battery life is really not anywhere near what it states. If you were consistently talking, I would estimate you'd get about 4 hours of actual talk time. And that would be starting with a 100% charge. And 380 hours of standby time? NO WAY. That's 15...almost 16 days. I'd give it a maximum of TWO days....and that's with nothing enabled! With things like 3G or WiFi and GPS on, you need to charge it every day. Now, admittedly, I have the battery the phone came with. There is an extended battery available, and in the past, I have almost always bought the extended battery. The only problem? Nothing fits when you have an extended battery, because the bigger battery requires a new door and a new case. So any accessories that are available for the phone no longer fit, because nothing is designed with the extended battery in mind. However, if you can get over that, I would so go ahead and grab the extended battery...it'll about double your time between charges. Otherwise, carry a micro-usb cable with you, because this phone will need it. You can hook it up to a computer USB port, or its own charger power cord. A car charger is a good option if you spend lots of time in your car, just make sure to get a Huawei official charger, as it tends to not charge with third party chargers. It's quite power hungry, but aside from that, it's truly a great phone. I give it four stars out of five. For the fifth star, they'd have to rework the battery system. A 1950 MaH battery is just not enough.

By Dr. M. A. Dixon "hyper-observant" (last seen singing in her ocean-view garden) -
This review is from: Huawei Mercury Prepaid Android Phone (Cricket) (Wireless Phone Accessory)
Beautiful fast android smartphone that ATT, Verizon, TMobile, etc would charge you $800 for unless you sign up for a 2-year contract and then they would give you the $199 price. Cricket is month-to-month with no contract and charges less than these other carriers per month as well as not charging you an extra $600 for buying a phone without the contract! Way to go Cricket! This is such a beautiful fast powerful phone too!; way to go Huawei!