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it's michael fisher with pocketnow.com still here at Las Vegas at CES no surprise here at the massive huawei booth this time checking out a Windows Phone device this is the huawei ascend w1 which we didn't see at the announcement yesterday but the press release came out today announcing it officially obviously you can tell from the size will bring this back in a second but just comparing it to a Nokia Lumia 920 this is a smaller device and from the spec sheet it definitely is a mid-range device let's just take a look around the around the outside give you a little bit of a hardware tour here on the left get a volume slider there this is obviously the cyan version cyan I'm much more brilliant blue than we saw in some of the leaked images this is not a washed-out color is very visible phone here's a huawei logo 5 megapixel camera around the back the front facing camera incidentally is a 0.3 megapixel vga resolution so that's not the best we've ever seen but there's windows phone's camera key stand by key is up top on this device and the headphone jack and down below is the microphone the battery is a 1950 milliamp hour battery pretty big for a mid-range device to display a 4.0 inch IPS LCD with something a while way is calling no air gap technology I'm really quite sure about that we have to get into a better lighting situation to see just how much or how little that is that holds up under scrutiny but really brilliant colors here really deep blacks at least in this lighting situation something we're used to seeing from AMOLED but not necessarily from an LCD so that's quite interesting once again 10-point 15 millimeters thick not going to win any awards for but or inside if you don't like carrying giant bones everywhere might be something to consider for a windows phone 8 shopper we want something a little bit smaller than some of the black ships obviously you can't check out and get too in-depth right now is just a quick hands-on but there is your first look the huawei ascend w1 running Windows Phone 8 from my way here in Las Vegas at CES 2013 pocket