China firm touts world's thinnest smartphone

 

A Chinese firm has just laid claim to building the world's slimmest smartphone at 4.75 mm thick, tech sites reported this week.

 

Engadget reported Vivo set the record with the X5Max at 4.75mm thick—thinner than Gionee's 5.1mm Elife S5.1 and Oppo's 4.85mm R5.

 

The aluminum phone runs on Google's Android and features a 5.5-inch 1080p Super AMOLED screen, a 1.7mm-thick logic board and a 5-megapixel f/2.4 front camera, it said.

 

It also has a 13-megapixel f/2.0 main camera, though the lens does bulge from the thin frame.

 

Yet, the X5Max managed to fit a 3.5mm headphone jack instead of forcing a micro-USB adapter like Oppo's slim smartphone.

 

Powering the X5Max is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chip that is octa-core (quad 1.7GHz Cortex-A53 and quad 1GHz Cortex-A53) and 64-bit ready.

 

Engadget also cited the dual-SIM tray that can fits one Micro SIM and one Nano SIM - it lets one use a microSD card (up to 128GB) in place of Nano SIM.

 

Other features include 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, and a 2,000mAh battery that may last a full day.

 

It also boasts of dedicated audio chips including Yamaha YSS-205X signal processor, Sabre ES9018K2M DAC, exclusive Sabre ES9601 headphone amplifier and OPA1612 amplifier, as part of its "Hi-Fi 2.0" package.

 

The Yamaha chip even has a karaoke mode, it said.

 

For now, the phone is available only in China.

 

A separate article on 9to5google.com said the X5Max is likely to make its way to the United States sometime in 2015. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News