TechnoLust – The Credit Card Mobile Phone

Posted by Andrew Tingle on September 24th 2006 | 2 Responses

P310header Of late, mobile phone design has branched off into two distinct factions. On the one hand you have phones that are trying, with great success, to encompass more and more of the attributes of PDAs and digital cameras within a single, versatile unit and, on the other hand, you have phones that, whilst not as feature packed are pushing technology in a differing direction by trying to become increasingly smaller.

The Samsung P310, in becoming one of the world’s thinnest mobiles (the X828 is actually the thinnest phone in the world – see below), certainly falls into the latter category though not at the expense of an impressive range of features.

Due to be released to the European market in late September, although the P310 measures a mere 8.5mm in thickness (with the same length and width of a credit card) it still manages to feature a 2 megapixel camera and a healthy eighty megabytes of on-board memory in which to store not only pictures but MP3s, whilst navigation around the generously proportioned 262K 1.9 inch QVGA screen is facilitated by a touch sensitive soft key.

Naturally, the phone also boasts full GPRS and Bluetooth connectivity.

The Full Specifications are as follows:

Standard: EDGE, GPRS Class 10 (900 / 1800/ 1900 MHz)
Camera: 2.0 Megapixel Camera (Flash, 4x Zoom)
Display: 1.9-inch 262K-Color QVGA TFT LCD
Features: Video Recording and Messaging (MPEG4, H.263)
MP3 / AAC / AAC+
Bluetooth 1.2 / USB 1.1
BT Printing / PictBridge / Stereo BT Headset
TV out / Email Sync (Outlook)
Memory: 80MB internal / External: MicroSD
Size: 86 x 54 x 8.5 mm
Weight: 75 g

Whilst undeniably thin, the P310 is not actually the thinnest mobile in the world. That prestigious accolade is currently held by the Samsung X828, which is only 6.9mm thick.

The Samsung X828
Officially the thinnest phone in the world

Want to read more about ground-breaking mobile phones? You can read about the world’s most expensive cell phone here. Or you can read about the Black Box mobile concept phone (its entire front face is a touch screen) here.