Huawei Reveals Slimmest Android Smartphone (CES)

At just 6.68mm thick, the Ascend P1 S is the world’s thinnest smartphone. That may or may not change over the coming days of CES, with every company vying for our time and headlines, but to give you a sense of just how thin the phone is, the Droid Razr is 7.1mm thick at it’s thinnest point, and the iPhone 4/4S is practically fat in comparison at 9.3mm.

Huawei is best known for Android devices in Asian markets, but has released a few models over the past six months in the US. The Ascend P1 S is fairly beefy, running a 1.5GHz dual core processor (Texas Instruments OMAP 446), 1GB of RAM and Android 4.0. The phone itself has a 4.3″ SuperAMOLED display encased in Corning’s Gorilla Glass, with a display resolution of 960×540, paltry compared to recent 720p phones.

The weird bit about the P1 S isn’t the phone itself, but it’s malformed twin brother, the P1. Almost a footnote in Huawei’s press release, the P1 is identical in functionality, but the build is bigger and bulkier, though it does not have a larger screen. Both phones will release in April of this year. I’ll get to test both devices out tonight at the Showstoppers Pepcom event, so stay tuned.At just 6.68mm thick, the Ascend P1 S is the world’s thinnest smartphone. That may or may not change over the coming days of CES, with every company vying for our time and headlines, but to give you a sense of just how thin the phone is, the Droid Razr is 7.1mm thick at it’s thinnest point, and the iPhone 4/4S is practically fat in comparison at 9.3mm.

Huawei is best known for Android devices in Asian markets, but has released a few models over the past six months in the US. The Ascend P1 S is fairly beefy, running a 1.5GHz dual core processor (Texas Instruments OMAP 446), 1GB of RAM and Android 4.0. The phone itself has a 4.3″ SuperAMOLED display encased in Corning’s Gorilla Glass, with a display resolution of 960×540, paltry compared to recent 720p phones.

The weird bit about the P1 S isn’t the phone itself, but it’s malformed twin brother, the P1. Almost a footnote in Huawei’s press release, the P1 is identical in functionality, but the build is bigger and bulkier, though it does not have a larger screen. Both phones will release in April of this year. I’ll get to test both devices out tonight at the Showstoppers Pepcom event, so stay tuned.