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Huawei Ascend W1 Review - Promising But Flawed (Part 1)

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This is the company’s first WP8 device which is promising but flawed.

When Microsoft proclaimed its hardware partners for Windows Phone 8, we were surprised that Huawei was not mentioned. You know, in the period before the event, we had seen enough evidence to be sure that Chinese company would become the fourth phone manufacturer to take part in with Nokia, Samsung and HTC. When the Ascend W1 was released late at CES, Huawei did not try to explain the delay, but with the intense political opposition it is currently confronting in the United States, perhaps the company tried to avoid. Now, after several months, we have the first opportunity to test the Ascend W1, its first Windows Phone 8 phone.

This is the company’s first WP8 device is promising, but it is flawed.

This is the company’s first WP8 device is promising, but it is flawed.

With a $198 off-contract price on the O2 network in the UK (or $230 at Walmart in the US) and a technical specifications sheet of the year 2011, Huawei is clearly aiming this device at the same customers as the lowest-priced Lumia series of Nokia, such as the 520 and 620. This puts it in the reach of the new smartphone users who are the "price sensitive" and those who want to try the Windows Phone as a secondary phone. But should the W1 be the device that new users select to be their starting point into Microsoft's mobile world, or will we say again that the Lumia 620 is worth spending your hard-earned cash? The answer lies below.

Hardware

Regardless of being eight grams heavier than the iPhone 5, the Ascend W1 feels lighter in hand.

Regardless of being eight grams heavier than the iPhone 5, the Ascend W1 feels lighter in hand.

Regardless of being eight grams heavier than the iPhone 5, the Ascend W1 feels lighter in hand. The cheap-priced devices are generally going to make you worry about poor build quality, but Huawei appears to evade these problems quite easily. In fact, the W1 is sturdily built and resisted our efforts to distort its shape with bare fingers. In short, it will withstand the dangers of a jeans pocket fairly well.

The company has imitated Nokia and HTC, coating the device in a matte cyan (or pink) polycarbonate shell. Those of you who remember the original Android devices of HTC will also pay attention to signs of a chin here, but since the screen is mounted on the shell like a pedestal, it is quite nice. With the width of 2.5 inches and the thickness of 0.4 inch, you might expect it not to fit in your palm, but fortunately the edges and corners have been rounded off. Therefore, while the phone may seem to be rigid and square, it is extremely comfortable in the hand.

On the 4-inch WVGA screen, which we will discuss later are the earpiece, proximity sensor, battery indicator light and a front-facing VGA camera. Beneath the screen, you have the normal three capacitive buttons, with the microphone engraved into the edge of the bezel on the left side of the Windows key. Along the chassis, you will find a 3.5mm headphone port and the power / sleep button at the top, two-stage camera key on the right side, a volume rocker on the left side and a micro-USB port at the bottom.

Along the chassis, you will find a 3.5mm headphone port and the power / sleep button at the top.

Along the chassis, you will find a 3.5mm headphone port and the power / sleep button at the top.

The company could have taken some notes on where to layout the phone’s loudspeaker. Instead of lying on the rim or the front of the chassis, the speaker grille runs under the Windows Phone logo on the back of the case. That means that if you are hands-free calling, or annoying the passengers on the subway, you will have to keep the phone away from your palm or mute the sound - an issue we have also found on the basic and mid-range Lumia series like the 520, 620 and 720.

The rear cover is detached to reveal a removable 1,950mAh battery, microSD card and SIM slot - so please keep the micro-SIM adapter nearby. While the phone has 4GB of storage, Windows Phone takes up more than half of that number, leaving us with only a 1.88GB of useful memory. Do not be fooled by the bargain price if you are going to intend to load media onto the device, since your first task will have to buy a microSD card (up to 32GB) separately.

Screen

On the positive side, the IPS LCD screen of the W1 delivers great viewing angles and is evenly illuminated.

On the positive side, the IPS LCD screen of the W1 delivers great viewing angles and is evenly illuminated.

We have often repeated that the block-color aesthetic principle of Windows Phone denies some of the need for a pixel-rich screen. Thus, you should not be surprised to read that the 4-inch WVGA (800x480) screen of the W1 does not impress us much, but it does a superb job when based on the price of the phone. Granted, it will not beat a high-end phone, but those who are upgrading from the feature phones will not see many reasons to complain. When it comes to the video playback, that 233ppi screen works well, and we were able to be satisfied when using it to watch 30-minute TV programs during a commute.

On the positive side, the IPS LCD screen of the W1 delivers great viewing angles and is evenly illuminated. Huawei may have saved pennies elsewhere, but at least here it employed OGS (One Glass Solution) to eliminate the air gap between the screen and the protective glass to have a sharper, more vivid display. In reality, we will say that color reproduction is good, but there is a problem.

Of course, the problem is that the W1’s backlight should have been much stronger, because we had to set the screen to maximum brightness even when indoors. When venturing out, we certainly had spinal injuries since we had to crane over the phone, attempting to shade it from the mid-day sun. Granted, that is not a unique problem for any LCD, but trying to capture images and shoot video has led to many pointing and hoping actions that we had taken a rather nice image.

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