The story behind the difficult birth of the Huawei Ascend W1 Windows Phone

Hello everyone. We only spotted this story behind the very much postponed product from i of Microsoft's nearly reluctant OEM: Ascend W1 by the Chinese telephone maker Huawei. Huawei is expected to be formally (and finally) announcing the W1 on the upcoming CES 2022. I'm not sure how many of you guys are actually waiting for it, but in case yous are hot in anticipation indeed, the following story volition probably explain all the quietness and terrible delay that paved a bumpy road for this phone.

Rewind to January 2022, when Huawei showed its Ascend P1 (Android) to the world on CES. Presently afterwards that, the company (along with a few other OEMs) were invited past Microsoft to Redmond to have a sneak peak at what the software giant has upwards its sleeves for the next generation of mobile operating system. They were showed some early previews of Windows Phone viii, and the ecosystem'southward futurity roadmap.

As early on as March 2022, Huawei had already made up its mind on joining the Windows Phone family. The Arise W1 project was established, and put into... slow motion. Initially the phone was supposed to wait like this:

I trust almost of us accept seen this picture already. Unfortunately Huawei'southward engineers were not quite serious nigh W1 from the beginning. Later they somehow found out that they can't build the camera neatly into the phone body according to the original plan. The annoying part just has to be elevated a footling bit. In the end they moved the camera to the center and gave it a round shape. This way the camera looks more natural. Little progress equally it was, it took Huawei a few months. By so information technology was already June 2022.

And Huawei's marketing position for W1 was (and still is): colorful shells, big screen. Sound awfully familiar within the Windows Phone ecosystem, eh?

January 2022, Huawei sent a team to Redmond to work closely with Microsoft. Withal in slow motility. Past October 2022, a.k.a. the one thousand revealing of Windows Phone 8 devices, the W1 was basically set up. However, things have a mode of happening all at the same time. Huawei had been under a lengthy investigation past the US government for being a potential "security threat", and by Oct 2022, the The states government just made upward its heed that Huawei was a threat indeed. Probably for this reason, the W1 was absent-minded from Microsoft'due south grand campaign.

Meanwhile, Samsung appear Ativ S, Nokia announced a new line of Lumia phones, and HTC made a whole series of "signature devices" for Microsoft. Huawei did effort to make a bit splash by leading bits and bites of W1 onto the web, but didn't get much positive result.

So, finally hither it is. CES 2022, Huawei Ascend W1. But rumor says Huawei won't release any peers for Ascend W1. This probably makes skilful sense, because the device is definitely not impressive whatever more in specs after a year-long filibuster, and "exist colorful, be big" is simply about the universal positioning of all Windows Phone manufacturers these days. Instead, Huawei is allegedly working on a massively improved specs-wise successor to W1 already.

Source: WPDang

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