Just as we thought that Vivo might be quietly bowing out of the thin smart phone wars, they go ahead and release a teaser on Weibo which could possibly be the thinnest phone every.
Gionee currently hold the slim phone title at only 5.1mm, and we already have an idea that Oppo will have a 4mm phone to beat that during the Oppo N3 launch, but big brother Vivo won’t be letting Oppo hold on to the world’s thinnest title for long.
So how thin are Vivo planning to go? Well their teasers (posted on to their official Weibo account) show the profile of the new mystery phone next to the 7.6mm chassis of the iPhone 5S. In fact it shows that two of the new Vivo take up nearly as much as the previous Apple range topper.
A little bit of maths has the new Vivo still a shade under 4mm thick at around 3.8mm! At such a narrow size we can expect a comfy and lightweight phone, but what about the battery life and how about the specs? From their previous thin phones we believe the new Vivo will be part of their X range of phones (probably a replacement to the Vivo X5) and as such will likely launch with one of the new range of 64bit Mediatek processors with LTE support.
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The thin Vivo is just one device we can look forward to from Vivo before the end of the year, we also hope to start seeing the first few details of the next generation Xplay before the year is out too.
[ Weibo via Gforgames ]
lol, so battery uptime of 3 hours before it completely goes dead?
Well that side looks premium and cool as hell. Hope the rest is as good.
Gionee did a good job with their S5.1 (ofcourse its a separate category of phone and not supposed to be compared with One plus one or Nexus 6). But as for Oppo, i dont have much hopes on them and theirs would look ugly or huge. Waiting to see what Vivo comes out with but still suspicious because most of the time the vivo renders turn out to be different from actual product.
they can keep the battery at reasonable levels if the screen is only 720p and the processor is super efficient. Don’t expect to play games on it, though, Still I can see a huge market for such a cool looking phone.
Interesting
They are at a point now where it is too thin. The recent super thing phones from Gionee and Huawei are about as thing as I would ever want a phone. Even those feel like they are going to slip right through my hand.
lol, so battery uptime of 3 hours before it completely goes dead?
Well that side looks premium and cool as hell. Hope the rest is as good.
Gionee did a good job with their S5.1 (ofcourse its a separate category of phone and not supposed to be compared with One plus one or Nexus 6). But as for Oppo, i dont have much hopes on them and theirs would look ugly or huge. Waiting to see what Vivo comes out with but still suspicious because most of the time the vivo renders turn out to be different from actual product.
they can keep the battery at reasonable levels if the screen is only 720p and the processor is super efficient. Don’t expect to play games on it, though, Still I can see a huge market for such a cool looking phone.
Interesting
They are at a point now where it is too thin. The recent super thing phones from Gionee and Huawei are about as thing as I would ever want a phone. Even those feel like they are going to slip right through my hand.
I will be terrified to hold my phone when it gets too thin, afraid that I may cut my finger open
In the picture that shows the entire thing (not shown here) it seems that it’s rather short so i suspect it’s 4 to 4.3 inch screen 110 to 115mm tall and that would make plenty of sense. Not something for heavy users but not everybody is that.
It will bend just like the iPhone 6+
Depends on the metallic material they will be using, if it’s just anodised aluminium (like post-iPhone 4s models) then yes it will bend easily. If it’s an aluminium alloy, (7075), it’ll take alot more force. If it’s a stainless steel encasing, good luck trying to bend it (try bending a high-grade stainless steel spoon at it’s widest base), give you a hint very hard. If it’s a magnesium-alloy, it’ll also take alot of effort to bend. Just remember, ‘pure’ aluminium is one of the softest metals accessible to us 😉
I will be terrified to hold my phone when it gets too thin, afraid that I may cut my finger open
In the picture that shows the entire thing (not shown here) it seems that it’s rather short so i suspect it’s 4 to 4.3 inch screen 110 to 115mm tall and that would make plenty of sense. Not something for heavy users but not everybody is that.
It will bend just like the iPhone 6+
Depends on the metallic material they will be using, if it’s just anodised aluminium (like post-iPhone 4s models) then yes it will bend easily. If it’s an aluminium alloy, (7075), it’ll take alot more force. If it’s a stainless steel encasing, good luck trying to bend it (try bending a high-grade stainless steel spoon at it’s widest base), give you a hint very hard. If it’s a magnesium-alloy, it’ll also take alot of effort to bend. Just remember, ‘pure’ aluminium is one of the softest metals accessible to us 😉