There's no such thing as too thin -- at least not according to Samsung, which unveiled the 5.9mm U100 candy bar today at 3GSM in Barcelona.
Seems like every time we turn around, Samsung is crowing that it's just released the slimmest phone ever. First we had the SGH-T509 (which, at 9.8mm, seems a bit portly these days), then came the X820, measuring a whispy 6.9mm thick (or about a third of an inch). That sounds pretty slim to us, but apparently Samsung's decided to go for broke with the U100, a candy bar with a razor-thin 5.9mm profile.
The scrawny new handset lacks the 3G of another recently announced Sammy slim phone, the HSDPA-enabled SGH-a727, but the U100 comes right back with its 3-megapixel camera, doubling the resolution of the A727's 1.3-megapixel snapper. The tri-band GSM/EDGE phone also comes with a media player (MP3/AAC/WMA and MPEG4/H.263), Bluetooth, USB 2.0, a document viewer and 70MB of internal memomry. Not bad, but it looks like Samsung had to sacrifice something on the altar of thin: in this case, memory expansion.
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Samsung SGH-T509
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Score: 77% When: May 2006 - $200 Carrier: T-Mobile
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Thin is in: Samsung’s new, flyweight candybar phone is a mere 9.8 mm thick. Can its dazzling looks make up for some so-so features? Ben Patterson reviews the SGH-T509.
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When: September 2006 Worth: $325
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Besting its own record, Samsung's SGH-X820 measures a mere 6.9 mm yet manages to pack a landscape high-resolution screen, 2 Megapixel camera, EDGE, stereo Bluetooth audio, TV out and more.
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