I saw thin phones shockingly everywhere in MWC 2025. But do they want people?

Amid crowds Human robotsCar concepts and Future offers in The mobile global conference In Barcelona, ​​dozens of people wander around a specific situation. From a distance, it appears to be one of the many stalls that offer another Smart phone collection. But a closer look reveals what everyone is passionately trying to get their hands: a Significant skinny phone Unlike anything you saw at all.

On the screen is the Tecno’s Spark Slim Phone concept, a phone with only 5.75 mm thick (more thin than standard pencil) and weighs only 146 grams, according to the company. After waiting for about 15 minutes for my role, I picked up the desired phone while I was amazed immediately. It is light like a feather, however I don’t feel something I can pick up in half. I do the optical thick test by pulling a pen from my bag and comparing it: Spark Slim is noticeably thinner.

Tecno is not the only company that seems to be believed to be SLIM. Galaxy S25 EdgeWhich is still out of the reach of the barrier, surrounded by a mobilization that cannot be penetrated by the likely spectators. Details of this phone, from the specifications to the date of the version, just slim as its appearance. But reports indicate that we will see this somewhat this year.

Oppo also launched Find N5It is called “thinner similar to folding books”, measuring 8.93 mm only when closed and a thickness of 4.21 mm when they are opened. I blew the size and the shape away When I tested itAnd I helped calm some of my reservations about the practical and group application of other folds. Perhaps one of the biggest rumors that led to the expected version of IPhone 17 collection It is the possibility IPhone “Air” A more insomnia version (and lighter) of the Apple phone.

But the thinner phone, while the wonderful flexible, can lead to defects. The lesser space often means smaller battery, and therefore a shorter battery life. Camera devices can also be limited, which leads to a decrease in image quality. It can take the same storage space a blow. These are all major concessions to the phone buyers, who are still arranged for the battery life, camera quality and storage space Among their top priorities.

Paying the borders may be disastrous, as I learned Samsung when you chose to reduce the Galaxy Note 7 design, just for Smoking devices And for the phone to be in the end Remember. The phone makers must also Maintaining durability in the introductionEspecially if buyers are paying a beautiful penny and they expect their devices to continue.

“You can’t be thin; you still have to get all the bells and premiums of the distinguished phone,” Nabila Boubal, chief data manager and analysis at IDC, told MWC. “The question is, how will the original equipment makers (phone makers) achieve this without compromising the other most important features such as the battery and camera?”

This challenge will be as more companies undoubtedly tend to the direction of thin phones. But if that is not necessarily what consumers requested in the movements, then why does it bother you that devices deviate?

“For the largest part, it is an attempt to distinguish,” says Bobal. while The IQ of the Tawoidi was the prize of clear lights During MWC last year, it became so much that this year was more Strategy and implementation. Therefore, phone makers need to find a new way of acquittal, and the slim and attractive light device is one of the ways to do so.

This approach seems to be working in places like China, where companies love companies honorand Xiaomi and Huawei All excellent premium devices have appeared for the first time (which often doubles as Foldsalso). But Popal adds that just because there is an echo in China does not necessarily mean that in other parts of the world, consumers in China tend to be more acceptable to unique phones than they are in America. But he explains that, at least somewhere, slim phones already strike a tendon.

It can be the Apple that launches a special thinner phone, especially as it is Struggle to distinguish between iPhone devices From each other, says Echda Batia, the platform and consumer operators in Globaldata.

For example, and iPhone 15 plus The model is currently occupied by an undievarian location in the Apple collection, installed between the basic and the most feature of features Pro and Pro Max Publications, Batia says. “This ambiguity has been confused among consumers, who struggle to distinguish between physical models based on the value of value and the collection of features. Sales data indicate that huge models have weakened in comparing other iPhone variables.”

On the other hand, it is easier to distinguish between a flashy thing like a delicate iPhone, and can have a better snapshot to capture attention – and the dollar – from shoppers.

So within a few years, will the phones crowded by the attendees MWC 2025 will be in their pockets and hands, and now you take pictures of everything that is the next technical innovation? Will thin phones become everywhere and win?

“The thinness will not be necessary, but it is definitely a feature that makes the phone feel more bonus, and it is good to have,” says Bobal.

It was not a revolutionary time often becomes the base. Just a few years ago, a larger phone screen was a special feature, but it is now standard. Instead, foldable phones remained a large extent, even after more than five years of The first appearance of Samsung Galaxy. Skilled phones can go in any of the two tracks. Bubal says it’s too early.

Also, what is old new again. The trend towards insomnia is due to popularity The original Motorola Razer,, Which became the phenomenon of pop culture when it was released in 2004 because of its slim construction and its unique form and education (who do not want a pink phone just like Paris Hilton ??). Motorola works to restore this era by reviving RAZR phone line In the form of a foldable smartphone.

Return to this day, even if the slim phones are not finally finished, this may not be bad, as POPAL suggested.

“I would like to claim, why do you want to make it the base? Make it specialized, keep it special,” she says. “The faster, the more profitability continues.”

The crowds moved closer to a swarm around the big (or slim) thing.