Huawei has an Android-powered smartphone presented with a housing, of which the largest part 6.7 mm thin. This makes it the thinnest yet well-known Android smartphone. The Ascend P1 S has a Super Amoled screen.
Including through the use of Samsung’s Super Amoled screen, could the housing be thinner than a lcd. Therefore the device is largely 6,68 mm thick. With this size, it’s the thinnest announced smartphone. The Motorola Razr was the thinnest smartphone and measured 7.1 mm at its thinnest point.
The screen has a diagonal of 4.3″ and a resolution of 960×540 pixels, reports The Unwired. This is the screen identical to that of the Razr. The device runs on a dualcore soc in the form of the Texas Instruments Omap4460, the same processor as in the Galaxy Nexus. The device runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Googles operating system.
Huawei has the device with 1GB of ram and a storage memory of 4GB that can be expanded through a micro-sdhc card. The smartphone has an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a front camera with a maximum resolution of 1.3 megapixels. The Huawei smartphone also features pentaband-umts, a feature that until now only Nokia built in some models. The Ascend P1 S and the nearly equal P1, which is 7.7 mm is slightly thicker, in the second quarter released in Europe. The price is still unknown.
Smartphonemakers in the past, becomes involved in a battle for the thinnest case. Many manufacturers, including Huawei, smuggle through certain parts of the body, such as the camera, something to thicken and the thinnest point as a measuring point to address. A developer of LG claimed mid-last year that smartphones in this year’s 6mm thin.
Race to the thinnest smartphone
Thickness (thinnest point)
HTC HD2 (October 2009)
9,9 mm
Apple iPhone 4 (June 2010)
9,3 mm
Samsung Galaxy S II (February 2011)
8,49 mm
Motorola Razr (October 2011)
7.1 mm
Huawei Ascend P1 S (January 2012)
6,68 mm
