On January 10, Beijing time, Huawei announced on Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that Ascend, the world's thinnest new smartphone, was only 6.68 mm thick. Huawei hopes to use this smartphone to enhance the global consumer market. Share.

Ascend will be a pioneer to help Huawei tap into personal devices ranging from mobile phones to tablet PCs. Huaweia€?s chairman Yu Chengdong (microblogging) stated that Ascenda€?s price is about US$400, but the final price has not yet been determined.

Yu Chengdong said that Huaweia€?s consumer electronics revenue in 2011 was US$6.8 billion, which is more than 40% higher than the US$4.8 billion in 2010, which is in line with the target of 6 billion to 7 billion US dollars proposed by Huawei executives in November last year.

Ascend will provide three colors of black, white and powder, with a thickness of 6.68mm, and will be available in North America, Europe and Asia in April. The Corning Gorilla Glass is used above the Ascend touch screen and uses a 1.5GHz multicore processor from Texas Instruments.

Huawei entered the consumer device market in 2004 and strives to become a top global handset manufacturer within two years through the launch of new smartphones and tablets. However, as of the third quarter of this year, Huaweia€?s share in the global mobile phone market was only 2.4%, ranking 9th, behind Apple and Samsung.