Vivo X5 Max: the new thinnest smartphone in the world

After weeks of rumors and teasers, the latest Android smartphone Vivo 's finally official . It is particularly impressive because the Vivo X5 Max now holds the title of the thinnest smartphone in the world with a maximum thickness of only 4.75 mm . But it is not only a slim smartphone, it is also a very impressive mobile, and comes with a lot of features and respectable hardware specifications.

Vivo X5 Max has a Super AMOLED screen of 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, 615 Snapdragon Qualcomm processor, a chip eight cores 64bit, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage with a micro SD card slot, a 4G LTE connectivity, a rear camera 13 megapixel Exmor RS using the Sony IMX214 sensor, a front camera of 5 megapixels and finally a dual SIM holder (a micro-SIM and nano-SIM). In addition, it has a smart YAMAHA YSS-205x for the audio portion. It runs a customized version of Android 4.4.4 KiKat named Funtouch OS 2.0.

As you can imagine, Vivo had to make a big engineering work to achieve such a feat . Vivo produced a custom board for X5 Max, a thickness of 1.7 mm. The smartphone chassis is also the thinnest with only 3.98 mm. Finally, they use the screen is a specific screen with a thickness of only 1.36 mm. If you wonder why Vivo has chosen a Super AMOLED screen, it's just because this technology offers much thinner than their LCD counterparts screens, because it does not require additional backlighting. If Vivo had an LCD IPS panel, the X5 Max would have ended up being the best of more than 5 mm.

Vivo X5 Max goes on sale in China on December 22 at a price of $ 485 . Vivo has not communicated the availability in other markets, but it seems that it will arrive in India on 15 December. So, instead of China, the first market where the device will be sold in India.

What do you think of Vivo X5 Max? Would you like happens in France?