News - Vivo smartphone design teased to be just 3.8mm thick

[HEXUS]

Chinese manufacturers tussle to claim 'world's thinnest', despite utility value of such a feat.

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[wasabi]

Interesting achievement, but I bet battery will suck and it will be fragile as hell.

[Jowsey]

-Sigh-

This thing would be so uncomfortable to hold, surely! I have a One m7 and it's nice, it's comfortable in the hand, I can grip the edges (and because there is a small bezel around the outside I'm not touching the touch screen) and even if it is a bit slippery because of the all metal design I think it's one of the more ergonomic designs out there currently. Also, I read on websites and see people referring to the m7 as chunky! This thin race will only end in heartbreak.

I just can't imagine this being comfortable though, it just doesn't look like it would sit in your head nicely. Though it will be an interesting 'proof of concept', especially as they are going to have to do something new with the battery.

I also wonder about build quality. It's probably a large phone , as all flagship phones are now, so structural build quality will be interesting.

[CK_1985]

Interesting parallels to the 'race to be smallest' back in the dumbphone days - culminating in Zoolander's hilarious micro-phone in Zoolander (obviously).

How long before the first reports of someone accidentally snapping their phone in half just by holding too tightly??

[Spud1]

"interesting" is definitely the right word for this I am definitely curious..

The battery & camera lens are the two things that jump out at me as "hmm" - The Oppo phone isn't really 4.85mm due to the camera lens, and I expect we'll see something similar here, but battery is where it's really going to suffer imo.

Thin is definitely the way to go - I expect phones to be just a screen in 10 years time (if that - I await the Total Recall phone http://www.want.nl/wp-content/upload...ll-623x467.jpg) - but as usual Battery tech is years behind everything else Curious to see how it turns out though, particularly given the complete lack of innovation in the phone market this year.

[crossy]

Chinese manufacturers tussle to claim 'world's thinnest', despite utility value of such a feat.

Quite - at what point is "thin" going to turn out to be "too thin", or if you'd prefer, "horribly uncomfortable and woefully fragile"?

Or is the end game this: (phone as a weapon)


(This is a phone shop in Perth, Western Australia)
If manufacturers are going to compete, how about "battery life on a single charge", that at least would be a useful innovation!

[MrRockliffe]

Like the R5, this is going to suffer with no headphone output. You'll have to use a Bluetooth adapter which is going to degrade quality, and that's even if it works!

[csgohan4]

does it bend?

[Stickwolf]

I imagine if asked most consumers would prefer a slightly thicker phone with a better battery? I wish I could get the Droid Turbo/Moto Maxx over here in the UK, that has an amazing battery =)

[MrRockliffe]

That is the PERFECT phone for me. Yet, I can't get it here in the UK. So annoying.