Oppo R5 crowned world's slimmest smartphone at 4.85mm thick

[Shawn Knight]

Advancements in technology have allowed smartphone manufacturers to continue to push the envelope when it comes to building thin devices. Such is the case with Oppo’s new R5 smartphone which, at just 4.85mm thick, narrowly beats out the 5.15mm Elife S5.1 from Gionee.

Despite its thin profile, the Oppo R5 packs a solid punch in terms of specifications. It features a 5.2-inch AMOLED screen operating at a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 which is good for a pixel density of 423 pixels per inch. A 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC handles processing duties while a Qualcomm Adreno 330 GPU gets the nod on the graphics side.

Elsewhere, the Android-powered R5 includes 2GB of RAM, 16GB of flash storage, a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing shooter (both with f/2.0 aperture), an LTE radio and a 2,000mAh battery with Rapid Charge technology that can provide two hours of chat time from a five minute charge and a 75 percent rejuice in half an hour.

The phone weighs just 155g and given how thin it is, there are some sacrifices that have to be made.

There’s no micro SD card slot so you’ll need to rely on cloud storage for expansion and curiously enough, there isn’t a 3.5mm headphone jack either. Instead, Oppo includes a micro USB-to-3.5mm jack should you want to plug in a set for private listening (or use Bluetooth).

The Oppo R5 is slated to ship globally this December in silver, gold and grey priced at $499 sans contract.

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[MrBlkfx1]

This really does sound like a solid handset with the exception of the headphone jack. But, do people really want "thinner" phones? I feel like the average joe usually throws a case on their phone which instantly increases it's size most of the time. I wish manufactures would focus more on battery life or something useful for the end user.

 

[Nobina]

Yeah, thinner phones look good but we don't need them to be this thin. My crappy phone is 7.9mm thick and it seems really slim to me I have no need for a slimmer phone and I wouldn't even complain about a thicker one.

 

[Guest]

2,000mAh battery eh? I'm guessing it'll last about 6 hours then. That might work for some, but not for me. Dunno what's up with all this tech anorexia. The iPad Air 2 is now so thin that it almost vibrates off the table when you play music and the screen distorts if you hold it on one side and apply slight pressure on the other side. Battery life took quite a hit as well compared to my iPad 4 with a 2 year old battery. But it sure is thin. In about 2 iPad generations, I'll be able to shave myself with it!

 

[Marty LK]

Ehh...6.5mm is plenty thin enough for me. There's a point to which thinness becomes a burden. And the burden in this case is the lack of a HP jack because the phone is too thin to incorporate one. Palm and Apple learned the hard truth of relying on an adapter. They both put out phones that required an adapter for the headphones. But Palm went out of business and Apple learned its lesson and never did that again.

 

[p51d007]

No thanks! I'll take a thicker device, with a bigger battery any day, which I did with the Huawei mate2

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

Whats so marvelous about it's thickness or lack thereof? It doesnt sound like a feat of engineering to me. If a smartphone didn't need a battery to power it or accommodate a 3.5mm jack, micro USB port, buttons etc, you could probably make one about 3mm thick including a hi res camera. It sounds like they've only achieved this by sacrificing battery capacity which seems to be the usual trick. I can see a lot of people swooning and fawning about it's thickness but I'm not impressed, I'd rather have a higher capacity battery in a thicker body, not only that, a thicker phone feels better in the hand and is easier to grip but each to their own I suppose.

 

[Kibaruk]

Yeah I'm one of those average joes that put a case on my LG G2 with screen cover, the other day I took it off for cleaning and it was amazing how thin it actually was without the case, I almost left it out and then I thought of it droping on it's face and it passed

 

[Radient]

I 7 find is the best phone ive seen