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When we see Huawei put a 5000mAh battery in a model like the MediaPad X1, that’s one thing; the seven-incher may have phone capabilities, but it’s still really hard to argue that we should be talking about it in the same breath as more petite phablets. But then there have been phones like the Phillips W6618 we told you about back in April, which marries a 5300mAh battery to a regular five-inch phone-sized handset. If you very much like the sound of devices like that, we’ve got good news for you, as manufacturers seem interested in delivering plenty more along those lines. Today we hear about another Android phone with a giant battery, the THL 5000.
Even more impressive than the 11.6mm-thick Phillips W6618, the THL 5000 squeezes its 5000mAh battery into a body that’s just 8.9mm deep. One of the tricks that helps keep the battery (and by extension, the phone) so thin is the use of a silicon anode, like Ubuntu was planning to use in the battery for its failed Edge model last year.
The rest of the 5000′s hardware sounds decent enough, as well: there’s a five-inch 1080p display, 13MP Sony camera, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage (with microSD expandability). The biggest sore spot may be the MediaTek SoC, but even then it’s one of the newer eight-cores-at-once designs. And when the phone finally goes up for sale, it should come in at just around $300.
We don’t plan on seeing the 5000 or any other THL devices making a big splash in the West, but the launches of more and more phones like it have us optimistic that it’s only a matter of time before we see a 5000mAh option like this from a Samsung or an LG.
Source: THL, phoneArena
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