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HP Spectre laptop is 0.4 inches thick, 2.5 pounds, and powered by Intel Core i5 or Core i7 chips

by Brad Linder04/05/201604/04/2016 Comments Off

HP is revamping its Spectre line of premium notebooks with a new thin-and-light model that the company says will actually be the thinnest laptop on the market. The 2016 HP Spectre measures just 10.4mm (0.41 inches) thick, making it about a tenth of an inch thinner than an Apple MacBook. But while the MacBook has a […]

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BLU Vivo Air LTE is a $199 smartphone that’s just 0.2 inches thick

by Brad Linder09/09/201509/09/2015 3 Comments

BLU is rolling out a few new smartphones this month. We’ve already looked at the $349 BLU Pure XL, which is a 6 inch phone that’s the most powerful device from BLU to date. Looking for something a little smaller? The BLU Vivo Air LTE is a smartphone with a 4.8 inch display and a super-slim […]

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Coolpad IVVI K1 mini smartphone is just 4.7mm thick

by Brad Linder02/03/201502/03/2015 21 Comments

There’s a new contender for world’s thinnest smartphone. The Coolpad IVVI K1 is a Chinese phone that measures just 4.7mm (0.185 inches) thick. That makes the phone a tiny bit thinner than another Chinese handset, the 4.75mm Vivo X5 Max which launched a few months ago. Coolpad’s new phone has a 4.7 inch display, a […]

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Hisense Vidaa Pad super-thin tablet up for order in China for $163

by Brad Linder11/03/201411/03/2014 6 Comments

The Hisense Vidaa Pad is an Android tablet that measures just 6.35mm, or 0.25 inches thick. That’s a little thicker than we were initially led to believe, but the tablet is almost as thin as an iPad Air 2… but the Vidaa Pad is a lot cheaper than Apple’s $500 tablet. If you’re in China, you can pre-order […]

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Vivo teases a smartphone that’s just 0.15 inches thick

by Brad Linder10/31/2014 11 Comments

Chinese phone maker Oppo made headlines this week when the company unveiled a phone that’s just 4.85mm (about 0.19 inches) thick. Now rival Vivo might be preparing to launch a phone that’s even thinner. The company shared an image of a new phone on social networking site Weibo this week. It shows a device that’s […]

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Oppo R5 smartphone is just 0.19 inches thick

by Brad Linder10/29/2014 10 Comments

Oppo hast just introduce what it’s calling the world’s thinnest smartphone… and it’s kind of tough to argue with that claim. The Oppo R5 measures just 4.85mm or about 0.19 inches thick. The phone isn’t just thin… it’s also reasonably powerful. Oppo manage to pack some decent hardware between the screen and the back cover, […]

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This is how Intel’s trying to make ultrabooks thinner

by Brad Linder04/12/201204/11/2012 7 Comments

One of the key things that makes an ultrabook an ultrabook is the thin and light case design. Ultrabooks weigh less than 4 pounds and measure less than 0.7 (18mm) inches thick — whether they have 11.6 inch or 15.6 inch displays. But it’s tough to make a laptop that thin using the same components […]

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OGT Mobile teases a 7mm Android tablet

by Brad Linder04/18/201104/18/2011 9 Comments

OGT Mobile is expected to launch a thin and light Android tablet soon. The company first showed a picture of the little guy in February, but now the folks at Android Central have posted a brief video and some actual specs. Here’s what we know so far. The tablet will reportedly weigh just 1.2 pounds […]

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Quanta unveils Snapdragon powered, super-thin Android smartbook

by Lee Mathews11/25/200906/07/2011 3 Comments

There’s plenty of non-Intel news going around lately. This time, it’s Quanta with a new smartbook which marries Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor with Google’s Android OS. The demo video reveals 3 USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI connector, microSD reader, and combination microphone/headphone jack. The battery looks to be fairly small – perhaps a 3-cell – […]