Mobile phones have completely transferred into a smart phone
device which can be used as a device to perform all of your digital needs with
flexibility. From time to time specifications and hardware parts are improved
to dual core, quad core processing. Other important thing is that apart from
this improvements, the devices still maintains the same thickness.
Within this year we have seen many smart phones debut claiming the
world’s thinnest smart phone but here we go through the slimmest smartphone in
the Android platform and listed here are the few devices.
Oppo shocked everyone with the announcement of its new Smart phone
called as the Oppo R5. The device is mere 4.85mm thick, making it the thinnest
or the slimmest smartphone ever made till date. Earlier the title of slimmest
smartphone was held by two smartphones from Gionee, starting with Elife S5.5
and later was followed by Elife S5.1.
Oppo R5 will feature a 5.2 inch FHD display with 423 ppi and has
stainless steel body with micro-arc frame that is hand polished. Under the
steel body, we have a Snapdragon 615, Octa-core processor coupled with 2 GB of
RAM. We have seen that these thin devices tend to heat up very soon, so Oppo
has introduced a Cool Element technology that uses liquid metal like substance
to cool the device. The device has a 13 MP rear facing camera accompanied with
5 MP camera on the front. There is also a 2000 mAh battery and the device will
run Android 4.4.4 KitKat with Colour OS v2.0 on top. The device is priced at
$499 and will be going for sale in December.
Gionee Elife S5.1 comes with a thickness of 5.15mm and was the
thinnest Smart phone until today. It also held the Guinness book of World
record for being the thinnest Smart phone but it has been overwhelmed by Oppo
R5 that has been unveiled today. Gionee Elife S5.5 was the first Smartphone
that bought the thought of slim devices and also was successful with its classy
design.
Gionee Elife S5.1 will comes with a 4.8 inch AMOLED display and is
powered by a Snapdragon 400 quad core processor with a clocking speed of 1.2
GHz. There is a 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory and supports 4G LTE
connectivity. Battery on the device is at 2100 mAh and will be launched in the
coming days.
Gionee Elife S5.5 – 5.5mm
A new addition to the list, and this sits right on the top with a
thickness of 5.5mm, becoming the world’s thinnest smartphone from the company
Gionee. The device has a 5-inch Full HD AMOLED display and a 1.7GHz Octa Core
Processor.
Vivo X3 – 5.57mm
This Smart Phone has broken all the records and has now come to the number 1 spot by offering a thickness of just 5.57mm which is amazing. The device does look like a music player and not a phone but well its a Android 4.1 based Phone. It comes with a HD Display of 5″ with a resolution of 1280 x 720p. The device comes with a price tag of $410 and is something which looks a value for money.
Huawei Ascend P6 – 6.18mm
The Ascend P6 got launched this year at a decent price of $500 with the best feature of this being the thickness which is at just 6.18mm making this reach the top of the charts. It comes with a 1.5 Ghz Quad Core Processor, 2GB RAM and a 32Gb Internal Memory. Over all the other smart phones this one is recommended if you want to have a truly slim device.
ZTE Athena – 6.2 mm
ZTE Athena teases the ultra-thin Android segment and this device
easily beats Motorola Droid Razr, Oppo Finder and
Huawei Ascend P1 S. ZTE Athena measure a thickness of 6.2 mm and it’s spotted
with Kevlar back.
Going through the specifications of the ZTE Athena, this would be
seen with 4.3 inches touchscreen display. Its powered with multi core Cortex A
15 processor and boast with 64 GB of internal memory storage capacity. This
would see with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.
Vivo X1 – 6.55mm
The Vivo X1 Android Smart Phone came with just 6.55 mm thickness which is quite thin to handle and yes thats the reason its being added in this list. The phone comes with a 4.7″ IPS Display with a 1.2 Ghz Cortex A9 Processor. With a good battery capacity of 2000 mAh its something which you should miss. Even though the device is hard to find for purchase out of China, its something which you should consider importing because of the $400 around price of this device.
Oppo Finder – 6.65 mm
Then we
spotted Oppo Finder all the way from China which measures a thickness of 6.65
mm. This device is now available for pre order but for sale in China only.
Going through the specifications of it, it includes 1.5 Ghz dual core processor
with 1 GB of RAM and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich along with 4.3 inches Super
AMOLED Plus display. This would be seen with 16 GB of the internal storage
capacity. Oppo Finder is a high end smart phone and it comes from nowhere to
challenge of slimmest Android smart phone.
Oppo Finder got the attention from international users as the
world’s slimmest phone but their talks trended for certain days only as ZTE Athena. Check Price on Amazon
Huawei Ascend P1 – 6.68 mm
Motorola
Droid Razr enjoyed the success of the world’s slimmest Android smartphone for a
considerable amount of time for almost 8 months as the Ascend P1 S debut by Huawei
stating that the device would measure a thickness of 6.68 mm and takes down the
crown as the world’s thinnest Android smartphone. This device was rushed for
the Mobile World Congress 2012 launched in Spain this year and it still to be
launched in several parts of the world.
Just when Huawei Ascend P1 S was announced in January 2012 at CES
2012 and still this device is not yet available with no confirmed dates. Still
Huawei isn’t clear about this smart phone and the launch of it is gets delayed.
Vivo X3L
– World’s thinnest 4G smartphone – 6.75 mm
The X3L is another slim beauty from Vivo, and this has got the
thickness of 6.75 mm, making it the slimmest 4G smartphone in the market. The
device is launched in China and it comes with the 5-inch 720p display,
Snapdragon quad-core chipset with 2GB RAM.
Motorola Droid Razr – 7.1 mm
The competition
among the thinnest Android smartphone started when the Motorola released Droid
Razr in competitor of Galaxy Nexus just a day before the launch. The Droid Razr got a critical
success as the device was thinnest, slimmest and provided hand some of features
but eventually both the devices here didn’t make any bigger impact. For most of
the reasons Motorola Droid Razr is known for it slim design with thickness at 7.1
mm.
When it debut, the device dethrones the previous title holder Sony
Ericsson Xperia Arc by 1.6 mm which is a major consideration in terms of the
design. However the run of Droid Razr didn’t last long as many other
manufacturers have realized the design should be important criteria along with
the hardware and the software design.
Motorola Droid Razr is with 4.3 inches Super AMOLED capacitive
touchscreen display. The device measures dimensions of 130.7 x 68.9 x 7.1 mm
and weights 127 grams. This is with dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 processor and 8
mega pixel camera makes this smartphone best use of all the features.
GIONEE
Elife E6 – 7.9 mm
The Smart Phone which was launched on 3rd October in India has
come up with some amazin hardware, consisting of a 5″ Retina Display, 13 Mp
Camera and powered by a 1.5 Ghz Quad Core Processor. The device comes in a good
looking unibody form factor with a strong built. The best part is that even though
it comes with a 2Gb Ram and the mentioned specifications above, its priced at
just around Rs 22000 [USD 400] which makes it a recommended to buy device.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – 8.7 mm
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc
when debut in January 2011 it was promoted as the world’s slimmest Android
smartphone measuring the thickness 8.7 mm but at that time, thickness wasn’t an
important part as the evolution from single core to dual core was on high, thus
thickness got shadowed. But the Xperia ARC is the device which arose the needs
the device to be slim enough even though the features are on high end.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc equipped with 4.2 inches LED backlit LCD
display screen with Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon 1 GHz dual core processor and
upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich available. Various other features
like 8 mega pixel camera and others made this smartphone as the top end device.
So with each of these device we have learnt that the thinnest
smart phone available is Motorola Droid Razr but several manufacturer have
teased their product but their device is not yet available in the market. So
Motorola Droid Razr is till the world’s slimmest smart phone available.
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