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Chinese phone makers have been engaged in a long battle to see who can produce the thinnest smartphone possible, and today Oppo has won title with barely credible R5 4.85 mm thick. There is a caveat to this measure since the camera sticks out of the ultra-thin body of the phone, but this is still the first handset of its kind to take under half a centimeter. Oppo has done its best to avoid compromising a data sheet that includes a 5.2-inch Super AMOLED screen, a Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor and a 13 megapixel camera, but the small 2,000mAh battery and the lack of a mark significant drawbacks headphone jack for R5.
no stranger to Oppo construction of specific devices or niche - the company also presented today a new handset selfie focused on the shape of the Oppo N3 - but it does not give a real reason why anyone want a 4.85 mm thick smartphone. Apple has opted for a similar approach with its new iPhones lightened this year, but it also failed to justify the emphasis on aesthetics clearly on useful things like a bigger battery. The fact is that most phones today are pretty thin, and the single-minded pursuit of making them thinner now lead us on a path to carry more equipment, either the battery or case headphone adapters, rather than less.