Smartphones have been evolving rapidly in the last
years, cameras got so much better, as well as processors power and efficiency.
Where we are a bit behind is battery technology, which hasn’t drastically
changed throughout this time.
Phone manufacturer have then begun to equip their
devices with bigger batteries, but that does come at a cost — thickness, which
some people are willing to put up with in order to increase battery life. We
indeed have stopped seeing super slim flagship smartphones below 7mm of
thickness in favor of bigger devices with bigger batteries.
Some examples are the Samsung S8 (3000 mAh, 8mm),
OnePlus 3T (3400 mAh, 7.35mm), Xiaomi Mi 6 (3350 mAh, 7.45mm) and the Nubia Z17
(3200 mAh, 7.6mm).
But what if you could achieve both at the same time?
An ultra-thin phone with a big battery? Well, it looks like UMIDIGI is working
on that with the nearing UMIDIGI Z1, which comes with the catchphrase “The
thinnest long life flagship phone”.
UMIDIGI are indeed going to launch a smartphone that
is only 6.95mm thick, and while we are not yet to know how much battery
capacity it’ll carry, by looking at their slogan we can assume it’ll be more
than 3000 mAh, hopefully between 3500 mAh and 4000 mAh, more than that feels
almost physically impossible.
