Huawei Ascend W1 review - Hands on

Huawei has introduced its Huawei Ascend W1 a first Home windows 8 device, claiming to be the thinnest on the market at just 10.5mm thick, and though it's not the most attractive home windows Phone eight device, it isn't a foul try by the manufacturer known for price range devices.

The case of the Huawei Ascend W1 we noticed was black. The screen is barely raised above the bezel, and this offers you the illusion it is extra glossy.

The digicam sits barely proud on the rear of the system which supplies a slightly awkward-wanting bulge.

The backplate is comfortable touch which encourages you to stroke, as comfortable contact usually does.

The design is nothing groundbreaking, however inoffensive. It feels a little bit outdated and plain, but for a tool we anticipate to sit at the backside of the smartphone chain, we're joyful to let it slide.

Packed inside the W1, you will find a 1.2GHz twin core Qualcomm processor. It runs along easily within the time we used the system, and handles multi apps working absolutely fine.

4GB inside memory is avaiable, which we hope will be mirrored in the value of this device.

The Huawei Ascend W1's display measures four-inches with a fairly common resolution of 800x480 pixels. It would not look as low decision as that sounds though. Colors aren't as vibrant as you'd discover on a prime-vary Lumia gadget, but sometimes you need something slightly extra laid back.

It is tremendous-responsive which makes usability tip top.

With a 1950mAh battery, the Huawei Ascend W1 should be capable to handle a day of use, if no more - it's a lot better than you may discover on the low-end Windows Telephone 8 devices in Nokia's range.

Packing a 5-megapixel camera with flash, the camera on the Huawei Ascend W1 in all probability isn't what you are after should you do anything aside from upload photos to Fb or Twitter. It does the job, but not to the standard of different similarly-focused devices.

After lots of speculation around Huawei's Windows Telephone eight-based mostly devices, it is pleasing to see the company has announced it officially, however we'll have to spend so much of time with it to see if the hardware corner-slicing can be redeemed in performance.