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everybody it's michael fisher with pocket now calm here at CES from Las Vegas in the Samsung booth where Samsung has been kind enough to provide us with a food production versions of their new mid-range device for verizon their first windows phone 8 device announced for the United States Khatib Odyssey let's check it out so as we say this is a mid-range device as you can see the screen size is only four inches diagonal and it is a wvga resolution 800 x 480 it is however running the full version of Windows Phone 8 no surprises there to be seen this is not final software and the device is not activated on verizon network so you see we don't have LTE but the device does have us a young board checking it around the back here you can see that it is very much more similar to a galaxy s finish on the back than it is to be a TV switch I'll bring out in a second but while we're back here that's a 5 megapixel primary camera with flash there's a Windows Phone branding familiar speakerphone down here very very reminiscent of the achieve s alongside micro SD card slot not sure what the max capacity on that is it's 64 it goes all the way up to 64 thank you volume rocker there multitasking view and on the right hand side just the typical camera button power standby and up top we have headphone jack and a noise cancelling mic bringing the achieve s alongside just for a comparison you'll remember this from our from our full review this is the international operations you really see the size difference there the attea odyssey sits very very nicely in the hand it is a thicker device and obviously much more rounded and without that extreme awesome metal finish or Foe metal finish that we've talked about before but much much more pebble like much more reminiscent of a well a mid-range device as it is but we're gonna have more impressions of this when it actually gets its full release in the united states here but right now this is a quick look the verizon a team obviously from a TV odyssey from samsung you