Vivo X1 is world’s thinnest smartphone, just 6.55 mm thin, undercuts iPhone by 14%

Here we go again, another manufacturer has come up with yet another “as thin as you could possibly go” smartphone. Chinese company Vivo has launched the X1, an Android smartphone that is only 6.55 thick, which is 14% thinner than the 7.6mm thick iPhone 5, which Apple boastfully touted as the thinnest smartphone at its launch.

The Vivo X1 sports a 1GHz Mediatek MT6577 Cortex-A9 processor and PowerVR SGX540 GPU, 4.7″ 1280 x 720 pixels display, 8 megapixel camera, and runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The phone comes with a pair of Beyerdynamic DTX71IE earphones, and a quad-core variant of the X1 will be available in February next year. The Vivo X1 also beats the Oppo Find 5 by 0.1mm, though the Find 5 sports a 1080p display and specs that the X1 can’t dream to match, at least not until the quad-core variant of the X1 releases in 2013.

ZTE is also reportedly working on an Android smartphone that will be even thinner at 6.22mm, so the Vivo X1 will probably not remain the thinnest smartphone for long. The X1 isn’t expected to be available outside China, where it is likely to go on sale at retailers like Focalprice, Dealextreme or Aliexpress. A release date or price weren’t mentioned.