The EE Hawk is a budget phone with a need for speed

Budget smartphones don’t usually scream ‘speed demon’ at you, but EE’s new Hawk might well buck that trend. Despite costing just £149.99, the Hawk can is a Cat 6-capable handset, which means it can handle 4G+ downloads at up to 300Mbps; that’s an entire HD movies in a few minutes, or an album in a couple of seconds. It also comes loaded up with Android 7.1 Nougat, which is itself a nippy performer, although a 1.5GHz MediaTek 6750 processor paired with 2GB of RAM is unlikely to set the world alight, and its 5in 1280 x 720 screen is a bit of a downer too. Still, at this price it should be capable enough, and on the plus side we really like its stylish glass-backed design, complete with rear fingerprint scanner. Other highlights include a 13MP rear camera, 8MP front-facing effort and 2500mAh battery. It’ll be available exclusively on EE (obviously) from tomorrow (December 1), with monthly deals of just £14.99, plus free JBL headphones thrown in to boot, likely to prove a further draw.

Marc McLaren Contributor

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Marc was until fairly recently Editor of Stuff.tv, but now edits a site about cars instead. He has been a committed geek since getting a Tomytronic 3D aged seven, and a journalist since the week that Google was founded (really). He spends much of his free time taking photos of really small things (bugs, flowers, his daughters) or really big things (galaxies and the like through a telescope) and losing games of FIFA and Pro Evo online. You can email Marc at marc.mclaren@haymarket.com