SAMSUNG: Samsung X820

Monday 9 July 2012

Samsung X820

The Samsung X820 is one of Samsung's Ultra series of superslim phones, and at just 7mm thick it's the thinnest of the Ultra series, and the thinnest mobile in the world at launch! It's now been beaten by its replacement - the Samsung U100. The rise of the superslim mobile began with the Motorola RAZR in 2004 at 14mm. Before this most mobiles were at least 20mm thick, so the RAZR caused quite a stir. The Motorola L6 replaced the RAZR as the world's thinnest, at just 11mm, and for a while the Samsung P300 was the thinnest, at 9mm. Now comes the Samsung X820, pushing the limit even further - to half the thickness of the RAZR! All this in just two years! The RAZR was hugely popular; the L6 quite popular, although with too low a specification to be a big seller; the P300 was just too weird to be mainstream; but the X820 has got what it takes to be a really popular phone. It does compete with the other Ultra phones however, especially the sliding Samsung D900.