The Blu Vivo Air is something of a paradox. This phone approaches the technical limit of how thin we can make a modern smartphone. It's not the absolute thinnest phone, no, that race is ongoing with successive manufacturers cutting their phones down fractions of a millimeter at a time to claim the latest title. But it is still very thin — thinner than any mainstream flagship device you'll find in your local carrier's store.
The design evolution of cell phones has been a bit of an oddity. In the early years we were obsessed with making these devices smaller — 1996's Motorola StarTAC and 2004's Motorola RAZR V3 were revelatory designs. But since the 2007 arrival of the iPhone we've been trending in the opposite direction: bigger. These phones have gotten slimmer over time, sure, but the flagship devices from Samsung, HTC, LG, and even Apple are all now 5-inch-plus monsters.
But these flagship devices bring with them flagship specifications and flagship prices. The Blu Vivo Air charts an opposite course — it shoots for extreme thinness and surprising affordability. That comes at the expense of the specifications, though. There are engineering tradeoffs to be made in making a device this thin, but more significant might just be the tradeoffs made to get the phone down to this price. These are the key numbers you need to know:
5.15mm and $199.00.
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