The phrase
"couple millimeters" means a very small distance of a few millimeters.
Full definition
Illuminating the cover of the May issue of G3 is a lake - dwelling filter feeder no more than
a couple millimeters long.
The camera on the back now protrudes out
a couple millimeters, as it does on newer iPhones.
The Huawei Watch 2 doesn't have the large bulge on the back though it still has a heart rate sensor, coming in
a couple millimeters thinner than the Watch Sport because of it.
For a sense of scale, it's
a couple millimeters larger than the HTC U11, and a hair smaller than the LG V20 — that's big.
Magnetic resonance charging, which has a radius of a couple inches rather than
a couple millimeters, is a little more like it.
This makes the whole phone
a couple millimeters shorter, but really, HTC needs to go further.
The M9 is
a couple millimeters shorter than the M8, though still unusually tall for a 5 - inch phone thanks to the black bar with the HTC logo that sits beneath the display.
HTC has managed to trim the length by
a couple millimeters by reducing the width of the black HTC - branded bar beneath the display, but it's still a rather long phone.
Although Android phones have had wireless capabilities for years, it's a very particular kind of wireless capability: you have to physically place your phone on a special pad, and taking your device more than
a couple millimeters away from the pad takes it off charge.