Remember how thick smartphones used to be?

Just the other day, we showed you leaked photographs of the Huawei Ascend P7. The handset is just 6.18mm thick. As we noted previously, the Apple iPhone 5s, a pretty thin handset in its own right, weighs in at 7.6mm thin. But there was a time, not so long ago, when some handsets were as thick as the proverbial brick.



Take a look at this commercial from 2010 for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini.Sure, it's a cute ad, but take a look at how thick the device is. If you're curious, the measurement of the phone was 16mm thick. As you would imagine, the rest of the specs seem like they are a century ...