Chinese smartphone maker company Vivo announced the world's thinnest smartphone. According to phones review, only 4.75 mm thick this Vivo X5 Max will come in Chinese market on this December 22.
The special feature of the device is it's thickness. This is thicker than Oppo R5, which is the slimmest of all phone currently on the market. Oppo R5's thickness is 4.85 mm.
Vivo authorities claimed that they used 3.98 mm chassis to build the phone, which is world's thinnest. The screen used in this phone is only 1.36 mm thick. Some may think that the X5 Max is all about the extremely sleek design and that the thinness of the phone might have meant sacrificing specs. However, that's not the case as the X5 Max has a very decent specs sheet.
The phone has a Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor with 4 cores at 1.7GHz and four cores at 1GHz, a 5.5-inch Super AMOLED display with Full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage that's expandable to 128GB via microSD. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with a Sony IMX214 sensor and LED flash, a 5-megapixel front-facing snapper, 4G LTE, and runs Funtouch OS 2.0 based on Android 4.4.4 KitKat.
This is a dual SIM device, one is micro SIM and the other is nano SIM. But if this is not needed it can take a micro SD card. Though Vivo X5 Max is a slim phone, still it managed to include a 3.5mm audio jack. One innovative thing in this phone which no leak sources could predict is, Vivo has included a built-in Karaoke app using the Yamaha YSS-205X chip and enhanced by Hi-Fi 2.0 support from the speakers of the device.
The price of the phone for China is CNY 2,998 that equates to around $485 or £310, although prices are likely to vary by region.
