0.16mm is roughly the diameter of a strand of human hair. (0.1 to 0.18mm.) In a consumer product, that's basically imperceptible -- and, in all but the most precision-engineered products, it would be within standard manufacturing tolerances.
So I suppose there already is a phone with an analogous form factor.
Yeah. I got a kick out of looking at the specs and the Edge and the Air had the same exact imperial measurement of 0.22 inches.
It just spurred the rage that we still haven't adopted metric in the US -- even after spending a good chunk of the 1970s learning it in school and being promised metric would be the new measurement standard.
In all seriousness everybody still probably needs to learn it in school, because the scientific literature is entirely in metric. Even papers authored by Americans and published by, e.g., the American Chemical Society, all use µg/mg/g/kg and µm/mm/cm/m for their measurements. If you don't have an intuitive understanding of those measurements, you can run into visualization problems.
The funny part is that in elementary school here in the mid to late 90s, growing up in a rural area, metric was only touched upon for a day at most and until high school chemistry and physics classes, I very rarely had to deal with metric. Which sucked! My math classes kept to U.S. customary system / imperial units for example.
(It wasn't even told to me that it was the default for most of the world. It was disappointing to learn later how much resistance to metric there was in the U.S.)
weird. i did elementary in the midwest during the 1980s and we spent equal time on metric and imperial, in fact i think it was some kind of requirement that both were given equal attention
It turns out they have been teaching metric in (US) schools, through the grades, not just for an hour or whatever, again. Why? I don't know, but I approve.
>but I literally had store security walk up to me and ask me not to do that.
Are you suggesting they did this because they expected it to bend because it was thin?
If so, I doubt it. Regardless of thickness, I suspect security would ask someone not to physically damage their devices.
I kinda metered the amount of force I was using very closely. For lack of a better description, I tested the springiness very carefully. But yeah, would've paid for it.
It's 0.16mm thicker than the Air. I've got to admit it was surprisingly pleasant to hold.
I even did a low key bend test and it did not bend, but I literally had store security walk up to me and ask me not to do that.
https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-s25-edge/