Samsung Launches World’s Thinnest Cell Phones

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Samsung Electronics has released to market the Ultra Edition 6.9 (X820 bar design) and Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830 clamshell design) cell phones - the thinnest cell phones ever made.

The phones incorporate Agere Systems’ innovative chip packaging design. The technique is called package-on-package (stacking). A packaged memory chip is stacked on top of the baseband chip package, which reduces the overall area footprint. This means that components can be mounted single-sided and the phone itself made thinner in depth. Cell phones usually have chips on both sides of the circuit board, making them thicker.

The Ultra Edition 6.9 (X820) measures 6.9 millimeters in depth and weighs only 66 grams while the Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830) measures 9.9 millimeters thick. They include Agere’s Sceptre® HPE 2.5-generation GSM/E-GPRS chip set.

Both models also include a music player, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth technology and 80 megabytes worth of data storage in onboard memory. Video and photos stored the phones can be displayed on a TV set with a TV-out interface.

Both phones meet the 2.5-generation EDGE standard, which transmits data at up to 384 kilobits per second and makes music and photo downloads over the network much faster than with traditional cell phones.