You’d be forgiven for not thinking the iPhone 6 is particularly “chunky” at .27 inches thick, but that didn’t stop Chinese manufacturer Oppo Electronics from one-upping it with its new R5 phone — now the slimmest on the market.
Coming in at a slender .19 inches thick, the R5 has been touted as the skinniest smartphone money can buy, and it’s a hard claim to refute. It’s thinner than…
Samsung’s Galaxy S5, which comes in at .31 inches…
The HTC One M8 at .37 inches…
The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact at about .28 inches and…Your average pencil, which is about .26 inches thick.
While Oppo’s phone is thin, looks can be deceiving: It’s actually heavier than the iPhone 6 (4.6 ounces), Samsung Galaxy S5 (5.1 ounces), and surely a host of other smartphones at 5.5 ounces. It also lacks a Micro SD port and headphone jack, which means users who want to listen to music or take calls with earbuds need to use a micro-USB adapter or go wireless with Bluetooth, assuming they have compatible headphones.
That super-thin shell only fits 16GB of storage—a pretty major step back from the iPhone 6’s maximum capacity of 128GB.