These 10 lightweight cell phones in the world are probably the easiest to carry around. As consumers, who are looking for a match of quality and price, we don’t often take into account the weight of the phone we are going to buy. The weight of an object becomes more apparent the longer we carry it around< and if you aren’t used to carrying something it might affect you like in the case of some accessories. If you are however curious, there are some manufacturers and models that have taken into account the weight of their phone during design and production.
The weight of some of the phones listed here is considered one of their best selling points. These phones aren’t necessarily the ones with the best features nor are they the top selling smartphones of today. You can’t even say that they are the 5 Most High-Tech Cell Phones in the Market. They are however quite a unique bunch of phones and you may have even encountered some of them or used some of them in the past. The other models and brands included here are ones you may not find in your country or are maybe too exclusive to be available.
This list is ranked solely on their weight and does not take into account when they were manufactured or their popularity. You may find that most of these phones are ones you aren’t familiar with. Let’s find out more about this list of 10 lightweight cell phones in the world:
10. Icemobile Rock Lite
Weight: 51 grams
While this phone, released during 2012, isn’t necessarily a contender for the current phone race, it does feature a lot of things you might find in some phones from that year. It has a dual-sim capability, a flashlight, and an SD card that can hold up to 2 GB storage. If you feel that it doesn’t sound too good, by today’s standards, you’re probably right.
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9. Plum One
Weight: 50.5 grams
Just going a little ahead of the Rock Lite is the Plum One with a .5-gram advantage. The phone was released during 2011 and had a joystick and numeric keypad to match. This is one of Plum’s earliest phones and with recent releases they’ve actually made quite a few good looking smartphones.
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8. BLU Lindy Q60
Weight: 50 grams
Also released during 2011, the BLU Lindy also competed with a lot of the phones of the year. It featured the popular QWERTY keyboard, which was a feature that defined mobile phone evolution. It also had a mini sim, an SD capability of 4GB and, of course, the very popular flashlight. This lightweight phone also has a radio capability.
7. BLU Bar Q T400
Weight: 48 grams
BLU continues its trend of lightweight phones with the Bar Q T400. This phone was also released during 2011 and followed the candy bar structure of popular phones of the time. It’s quite small in size and only has mono speakers and Polyphonic ringtones. This was not unusual for phones of that year.
6. BLU Swing M100
Weight: 47 grams
As you might’ve guessed this phone was also released during 2011 but it had quite a few features that have given it the advantage over other phones in this list. It was a slide-phone with a popular design during this year, and it also had 128MB processing power and an 8GB SD card capacity that was twice that of most phones.
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5. Icemobile Rock Mini
Weight: 46 grams
The Rock Lite had a more compact and lighter version with the mini. It was released during 2012 and had vibration, and MP3 features on it, as well. Like the Rock Lite, it only had 2 GB of SD card capacity and also retained its dual sim and flashlight features.
4. NIU Bingo N103
Weight: 45 grams
This phone from NIU was also released during 2012 and had features similar to that of Icemobile phones. This phone, however, had the capability to connect with a Micro USB output. With these few different features, it had lost the popular flashlight capability.
3. Vertu Aster
Weight: 19 grams
You may or may not be familiar with the luxury brand Vertu, smartphones reserved for those willing to spend a large amount of money. The Aster comes with leather design, a very light weight and some impressive specifications.
2. Sony Xperia E4g
Weight: 10.8 grams
Even with the famous Z series from the Xperia line of phones, Sony had a lot of other letters and other versions. The E4g is the lightest they’ve made and second on this list. It was released just February of this year and maintains most of the specs you’d expect of the Xperia phone.
1. Oppo N1 Mini
Weight: 9.2 grams
The N1 Mini from Chinese manufacturer Oppo is the lightest cell phone in the world. It was released around this time last year. Despite its weight and size it came with very respectable specs and even a swivel camera. The problem that many people have on it is Wi-Fi detection.
This has been the list of 10 lightweight cell phones in the world. We may see even lighter phones as the technology progresses in the future.
