Huawei Launches Low Cost Shine Smartphone to take on Xiaomi

If you have been keeping up to date with the the latest Xiaomi news you will have heard that the company have released a low cost Youth phone for students. Well Chinese electronic giant Huawei are not letting Xiaomi steal the low cost limelight and have too launched a low cost smartphone.

The Huawei Shine is the company's cheapest Android smartphone to date, costing just 1499 Yuan or roughly $240, which puts the Shine in direct competition with Xiaomi's M1 Youth phone.

The two competing phones both have highlights, the Xiaomi M1 Youth's being a dual core 1.2 ghz CPU, Android 4 with MIUI and an 8 Mega-pixel rear camera, while the Huawei Shine boasts a full 1GB of RAM and a front facing camera for video chat.

Full specs for the Huawei Shine are a dual core 1GHz CPU, 768 RAM, front camera, rear 5 mega pixel camera, Android 4.0 Ice-cream Sandwich and a large 1900 Mah battery!