Making the world’s thinnest smartphone gives an OEM something to brag about, even if it’s a device you’ll never have a chance to buy. Just weeks after Chinese OEM Oppo released the 4.85mm thick R5, another Chinese device maker has one-upped it. Vivo’s new X5Max is a whole tenth of a millimeter thinner at 4.75mm. That’s obviously not a huge difference in any practical sense, but at least Vivo was able to figure out how to cram a headphone jack in its phone, unlike the R5.The X5Max looks a lot like other flagship Android devices in China–that is to say, it looks a lot like an iPhone 5s. It has the metal rim, rounded corners, and the back even has the plastic bands at the top and bottom. It’s quite a bit larger than an iPhone, though. The screen is a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED and around back is a 13MP camera. The camera sticks out of the phone, technically increasing its girth by a good 2mm. Camera bumps are just part of life–even the iPhone has one.Inside the X5Max are 2GB of RAM and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, which is an octa-core chip with 64-bit support. This chip packs four 1.7GHz Cortex-A53 and four 1GHz Cortex-A53 cores in an ARM big.LITTLE configuration. The device is running Android 4.4.4 right now, so the 64-bit support isn’t being utilized. When the phone gets Lollipop at some point in the future, that will change.Speaking of the software, it does runAndroid, but this isn’t the Android you know. Vivo, like most Chinese OEMs, heavily skins Android to make it more like iOS. There’s no app drawer and all the icons are the distinctive rounded square shape used on Apple devices. It also has special audio processors for the phone’s karaoke mode, because why not? Since this is China, there are also no Google services built-in.The Vivo X5Max will be available in China on December 12th for the equivalent of $490. Even if you import one, it won’t support LTE outside of China.Now read: Microsoft now has more than 40 apps on Androidhttp://mobile.geek.com/latest/255448-the-vivo-x5max-is-the-worlds-thinnest-smartphone-at-4-dot-75mm?origref=
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