While mini reigned as the buzz word in mobiles for quite some time, slim and lightweight phones, which were not necessarily small, arrived in the market and found a quick fan following. Motorola started the trend of slim phones with their very famous MotoRazr V3. This phone was much appreciated for its sleek, stylish and contemporary look, though it wasn't fully loaded phone in terms of functionality. Priced at Rs 30,000 when launched in India, it was nearly twice as expensive as any mobile phone in that category. Recently, Nokia also forayed into the slim phone range of phones with its latest Nokia 6300.

Samsung launched the world's slimmest mobile phones in all three categories—the bar phones with their Ultra Edition Series, including the X820 that boasts of a profile of 6.9 mm; the clamshell phones – D830 which is a 9.9 mm profile; and the slider phones – the D900, which is a 12.9 mm slide-up, the thinnest slider ever designed to come equipped with a powerful 3.13 megapixel camera. Samsung’s latest addition to the slim phone range is the P310.

Similarly, Motorola's slim phone range is quite remarkable. Their SLVR series (all bar phones) has an impressive line-up too with the L-2, L-6, L-6i, L-7, L-7i, a complete range of Slim phones in all the price ranges, affordable to high-end. They also had clamshell slim phones in V-3i (MotoRazr) and K1 (MotoKazr).