Poll results: Would you buy a smartphone that's thinner than 5 mm?

There’s no doubt that slim smartphones are elegant and good-looking, but just how thin is too thin? The latest trend is to slim handsets down to unimaginable numbers: currently, the thinnest (officially announced) smartphone in the world is the Oppo R5, which measures 148.9 x 74.5 x 4.85 mm - it’s so slim that it can’t feature a standard 3.5 mm headset jack. Next month, Vivo will reportedly release a handset that’s even thinner, albeit not by much: the X5 Max, which measures 153.9 x 78 x 4.75 mm.

We were curious to know what our readers thought about the arrival of these new ultra-slim handsets. So last week we ran a poll with the question: “Would you buy a smartphone that's thinner than 5 mm?”

954 voters (36.66%) answered “yes” - they would get a smartphone that’s thinner than 5 mm, though some commentators have pointed out that this would happen only if the device had decent battery life. On the flip side, 1648 voters (63.34%) don’t want an ultra-slim handset - because it’s uncomfortable to hold, or it comes with too many compromises.