0 6.18mm slim metallic body, Huawei Ascend P6 with 4.7-inch 720p display announced

Huawei finally announced the Ascend P6, the company’s latest flagship smartphone with metallic body at an event in London. 

    Huawei Ascend P6 features a glove-friendly 4.7-inch 720p in-cell LCD and is powered by Huawei's home-brewed K3V2 chipset. The same SoC powers the Ascend Mate, Ascend P2 and Ascend D2 with its quad-core 1.5GHz Cortex-A9 processor and 2GB of RAM.The key selling point of the Huawei Ascend P6 is its extremely slim profile - just 6.18mm. According to the company that's enough to guarantee it the world's slimmest smartphone title. The Ascend P6 is also quite light at 120 grams.

The rest of the Ascend P6 features include an 8MP primary camera (BSI, F2.0) with 1080p video recording, a 5MP front snapper for video chats and self-portraits, 8GB expandable internal storage, and a 2000 mAh battery.

The connectivity department of the Huawei Ascend P6 may lack LTE support, but has covered most other bases. The Ascend P6 comes with dual-SIM with dual stand-by support by default. Naturally HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio are supported.

Huawei Ascend P6 specifications

• 4.7-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) capacitive touch screen display
• 1.5 GHz quad-core processor
• Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
• 8MP camera with BSI sensor, F2.0 aperture,  4cm macro lens
• 1080P full HD video recording and playback
• 5-megapixel front-facing camera with auto facial-enhancing capabilities
• 6.18 mm thick and weighs 120 grams
• 2GB RAM, 8GB internal memory, expandable memory via microSD
• 3G HSPA+, dualband WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n,  Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS
• 2000 mAh battery

The Huawei Ascend P6 comes in black, white and pink with matching color cases. It is priced at 449 Euros (~US$600). The Ascend P6 would go on sale in China from June and in Western Europe from July through select carriers and retailers. It would ship to over 19 countries by July.