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we learned last fall with the ascend mate seven that hallway knows a thing or two about fancy packaging but this is taking things to a whole new level I'm Michael Fisher with PocketNow and this is our unboxing and first look at the Huawei p8 smartphone we've already gone hands-on with Huawei's new flagship smartphone but we weren't allowed to film or take pictures of the p8 and we didn't see the retail packaging the sleeve on the outside is made of a rubbery textured material and the only marking aside from the labels is the phone's name note the dropped ascend brand of years previous it's just the p8 pulling that sleeve aside we get a kind of shower door like preview of the phone itself and the interesting way it's packaged while most phones sit under the box cover face up Huawei has slotted it in sideways making for a new and fun and somewhat delicate extraction that the company equates to taking a book from the shelf as you can see we've got the mystic champagne model here one of the two colours available in the standard 16 gig configuration we'll put it aside just long enough to check out the accessories that come with it tightly slotted sub boxes that contain or will contain product literature as well as a power adapter cable and bundled ear but it's all beautifully done there's a lot of stuff packed in here with precision not just tossed in to rattle around like Cracker Jacks and if you're the buyer who's spent over five hundred dollars on this phone folks this is the first impression you get of this device that's why the unboxing experience is so crucial if we scored retail packaging I'd give this one almost a perfect 10 let's move over to the phone who's protective back-cover tells us where to find the sim and micro SD card slots side keys and the optically stabilized 13 megapixel camera and NFC tap point now that we know all that let's peel it off quiet please under the protector and the casing material is a lot of solid hardware akhirin 930 chipset three gigs of ram and a 5.2 inch full HD display all of it encased in a 6.4 millimeter thick chassis making it the thinnest phone we have in the Boston review lab at the moment maybe that's why the battery is just average in size at 26 80 milliamp hours how does it feel in the hand what right from the shipping container it's hundred and forty four grams steel casing is cool to the touch and it feels very high-quality but those double chamfers on the edges do dig into the palm a bit also it's pretty plain looking as I mentioned in my initial hands-on at pocket now Kundel eye casts Oni Xperia with a metal back whether you like this super simplicity will of course depend on you powering it up it's no surprise to see that Huawei has sauced up Android 5.0 with version 3.1 of its home ground emui it's more than just an interface paint job it includes a new always listening voice assistant and broad improvements to everything from phone calls to antenna software to the camera viewfinder whose interface is a little familiar by the by this is just scratching the surface though there are an awful lot of added features that are going to take a full review treatment to suss out fortunately that's just what we're here for we'll be testing the Huawei p8 alongside the new talk band b2 at the ephah global press conference in Malta this week so expect some photos on our social feeds and be sure to let us know what you want to know about the Huawei p8 leave a comment down below until next time this has been michael fisher with pocket now pouring a little out for the ascend brand-name we'll see you next time