This interface change is ostensibly designed to the make the phones easier to use, but because the phones' screen resolution is so low (just 800x480), the icons and the recent applications box look cramped. The phones also include a modified app launcher with a box at the top of the screen that lists recently used apps. Rotating either phone from portrait to landscape results in icons and widgets that disappear and reappear as they attempt to keep up with what you're doing. The operating system itself, which is saddled with T-Mobile's MyTouch OS changes, frequently stuttered during the last two days on both the MyTouch and MyTouch Q. Worse yet, Android and most apps run terribly slowly on the MyTouch. Essentially, Huawei's MyTouch phones are now two generations behind the curve, which means newer apps might not run on the handsets, and Android usability advancements are off the table. This is especially troubling considering that Google recently released Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) as an over-the-air update to the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, and the Nexus 7 and Motorola Xoom tablets.

Given that Ice Cream Sandwich made its debut in November 2011, the Huawei MyTouch line shouldn't be debuting on an operating system that's so far behind the times.