#ultra-thin-phones

#ultra-thin-phones

Since the release of the first iPhone, smartphones have gotten thicker, then broader, then thinner again, before a long, stable era of gradual screen inflation. The iPhone 4, released in 2010, is 0.37 inches thick with a 3.5-inch screen. The iPhone 16, released last year, is 0.31 inches thick with up to a 6.7-inch screen and a substantially similar design. We've been in the sorta bulky, sorta thin smartphone era for a while now; at the same time, iPhone sales have stopped growing consistently.

The newest and arguably most innovative iPhone features the company's slimmest design yet, measuring at around 5.6mm thin. How did the folks at Cupertino achieve such a record? By opting for a smaller battery, fewer cameras, and some design elements that disrupt the norm, especially by iPhone standards. In other words, this is a totally different beast.