Gionee has broken its own record of the handset Elife S5.5 as the world’s slimmest smartphone with the Elife S5.1. The company has created quite a buzz in the market with leaked images of the Elife S5.1 before the official launch. The specifications of this are yet to be announced officially but we have a leaked version of the specifications.

As per the leaked images, the Elife S5.1 looks a lot like its predecessor, the one which it I set to dethrone. While the world awaits the official launch of the phone, Gionee has teased the customers every now and then by giving them a glimpse of the new phone. The latest Elife S5.1 is being proclaimed to have a thickness of just 5 mm.

Recently, a website has proclaimed that it has got its hands on the phone and has leaked the specifications. According to this leaked report, the Elife S5.1 has a 4.8 inch full HD AMOLED display. This might be a price that the phone has had to pay due to its reduced thickness because the Elife S5.5 has a Super AMOLED full HD display. It also says that the phone’s dimensions are 139.8 X 67.4 X 5.15 mm. The phone is powered by a quad core Snapdragon 400 processor and 1 G RAM. It supports a micro sim and also supports 4G LTE. It ha an 8 mega pixel rear camera and a 5 mega pixel front camera. The phone also has 16 GB internal memory which is not expandable. It is fuelled by a 2100 mAh battery and runs on Android 4.3 topped with Gionee’s own, Amigo 2.0 interface.

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Anorexia and zero figures are receiving rave comments and criticism all over the world but here in the mobile world slim is the latest catch word. Gionee boasts of manufacturing the world’s slimmest smartphone, the Elife S5.5, with a thickness of just 5.5 mm. However, the company has decided to challenge its own record and launch a successor to this phone with a thickness of merely 5 mm. The teaser launched by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer shows the slimmest phones over the years – Moto V8 at 11.9mm (2007), iPhone 4 at 9.3mm (2010), Moto XT910 at 7.1mm (2011), and Elife S5.5 (2014). Finally, the latest contender is displayed which will surely beat the thickness of the Elife S5.5.

The current Elife S5.5 has a 5-inch AMOLED display with 1080p full HD resolution and is powered by an octa core processor. A drop in thickness to around 5 mm would surely require significant engineering innovation because of the number of components that are put together in a smartphone. It might strain the battery which occupies most of the space. Moreover, the phone is touted to possess a Corning Gorilla Glass screen which puts up the question of how the thickness has been cut down. Another issue would be that of handling as an extremely thin phone would be prone to accidental falls.

Only time will tell how this smartphone will perform but it is needless to say that a large hype has been created by the teaser. The trend of slim phones is just a temporary fad or a statement that is here to stay will be decided by the users as they will judge this newest entrant.

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