Motorola Droid Razr Will No Longer Be The World’s Thinnest Smartphone

By Vincent Funaro, Christian Post Reporter Monday, January 09, 2012

The Motorola Droid Razr will no longer be the world’s thinnest smartphone once Huawei releases its new Ascent P1 S handset.

The company unveiled this new device at this year’s consumer electronics show that will feature a thinner frame than the Droid Razr at 6.68mm. The Razr is 7.1mm thick.

Specifications on the Ascend include a 4.30inch qHD Super AMOLED display, 1080p video support, SGX 540 GPU, a dual-core 1.5GHz TI OMAP 4460 processor, an 8-megapixel main cam, a 1.3-megapixel back cam, LED flash and 1GB of RAM.

There will also be a less powerful version of the device called simply dubbed the Ascend P1 that comes with similar specs. However, if features a wider profile at 7.69mm and will be priced significantly cheaper than the P1 S.

Both models are expected to launch in the U.S. within the second quarter of 2012. No prices have been confirmed by Huawei.

Like the Motorola Droid Razr, it will also run on Android software, but what version of Android it will use is not clear at the moment. And along with trumping the Razr in terms of thickness, its qHD display contains a resolution of 540x960 easily outdoing any device HTC has released thus far.

Upon its initial release in 2011, the Motorola Droid Razr was marketed as “the world’s thinnest smartphone” and was given the name Razr in order to reinvent the line of one of the most popular cellphones of all time, the original Motorola Razr flip phone.

Motorola plans to follow up this Droid Razr line with the Droid Razr Maxx smartphone. There is a strong possibility that the company could go with an even thinner design than Huawei’s device in order to stay the world’s thinnest handset.