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everybody's Michael with pocketnow.com and today we're looking at the ascend p1 from Huawei we're gonna do a little unboxing for you it is a super slim Android phone announced back in January it's also my first exposure of any kind to hallway hardware so let's check it out ok so here is the ascend p1 s box here just a single image of the phone on the front little slimness emphasizing graphic on the side there's the brand name there the Huawei brand up top some serial numbers down bottom and the feature rundown on the back that's a very I phone esque box I hesitate to say because that results in immediate backlash but it really does remind me of unboxing my iPhone 3G for the first time anyway pull that off we're greeted front and center by the device always a nice touch let's put that aside for the moment little finger hole there to get that out welcome to Huawei Thank You Huawei pull that insert out nothing really going on there and very very minimal stuff going on in the box here I feel like the user manuals may have been left out by by who I weigh when they shipped this to us thank you for the vote of confidence Huawei this is the Micro USB cable of course done up in white and the wall charger with the Huawei branding international version here also done up in white very nice anyway yeah we are missing the manuals there so apologies for that but you wouldn't read it anyway let's put that stuff aside and here we have the phone take it out of its plastic sleeve here now the phone is very very slim at 7.7 millimeters for most of its casing with a reassuring weight in the hand it's weird it's only 110 grams so it's even lighter than the 133 grams of the galaxy s3 that I've been slamming for not feeling substantial enough but here on the p1 the materials somehow don't feel as tacky now others will disagree with me and other reviewers have already disagreed with me on this it's going to your mileage is gonna vary here I think the smaller casing design of the p1 conspires with that with the weight to make it feel different I don't know more on that in the full review once I've had a solid amount of time with the device anyway let's have a look at the hardware tour up front 4.3 inch Super AMOLED display at 960 by 540 resolution qHD isn't exactly top-of-the-line anymore but that's what we're working with down below if you can see the black phones are very very difficult to photograph with this crappy camera a kind of old-fashioned styling on these capacitive Android buttons but they are at least in the ICS configuration so that's good up top you can barely see it probably if you can see it at all there's a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera around the side here we've got the microSD expansion slot I get some light on it there we got the power button there around the other side just a volume rocker and around back we're looking at an 8 megapixel rear facing camera with backside illuminated sensor and a non removable cover with an interesting materials pattern here under which is sitting a 1670 milliamp power battery and while we're talking about the guts we should also mention that under the hood the p1 is powered by a 1.5 gigahertz OMAP 4460 dual-core CPU with a gig of ram backing that up and it ships with 4 gigs of internal storage in addition to that microsd expandable 'ti on the side here radios are a quad-band GSM and Penta band 3g HSPA+ capable delivering speeds up to 21 megabits per second no LTE here unfortunately so for the last portion of this video let's give ourselves a first boot here if we have enough juice in the device now this is the first there we go there's little buzz and there's the highway branding that's nice speaking of which this is the first time wow that was fast there's the first time I've handled a device from Huawei it's the first time I'll be exposed to any kind of software from the company so this is exciting breaking new ground at PocketNow so we are alive we have a drag to unlock option here to get us to a couple shortcuts very similar to a when newer motorola skin here on this drag to unlock make sure we can unlock and there we are thanks for watching the unboxing of the ascend p1 from Huawei as usual and unboxing this week usually means a review next week or possibly the week after so keep it locked to pocketnow.com for that if you want to follow us on twitter you can do so at pocketnow.com ttan to phones that's captain the number to phones and if you have any suggestions something specific you want to see in the review video or in the review text piece you can shoot me an @ reply there in the meantime just follow us at pocketnow.com stay tuned thanks for watching give us a thumbs up if you liked the video and we'll see you next time thanks a lot you