There's still a fair amount of
bezel around the display too, and the front - facing speakers mean the phone is potentially taller than it needs to be.
The front looks traditional, with somewhat chunky
edges around the display that house the selfie camera, as well as the capacitive Android navigation buttons and the fingerprint sensor.
As you can see, the phone will sport really thin black
bars around its display, which was to be expected, but its bezels remain quite thin despite of that.
The devices looked and were built like proper watches, complete with an incredibly useful rotating
ring around the display, plus handy buttons on the sides.
You even get a slight
lip around the display in order to avoid scratching the front glass when the phone is face down.
According to the renders, it will have minimal bezels
around the display panel — helping it achieve its edge - to - edge look.
With bezels
around the display measuring a mere 4.2 mm, there's only a hint at a black border, with the metal of the lid framing the edges neatly.
The half - inch - wide bezel
around the display gives you a place to rest your thumbs that's not glass, which cuts down on fingerprints.
You can have up to three apps open at one time; each appear as small windows, whose size you can change and
move around the display.
There is a thin bezel that stretches
around the display area, but the glass stretches nearly from one end of the tablet to the other.
Plus, it's been enhanced with stronger sensitivity that allows even users wearing gloves to
tap around the display.
While the smaller of the two handsets did get a small design tweak around back, it keeps the large bezels
found around the display.
And the bezel
around the display seems rather large, making the screen itself smaller than we'd expect from a similarly - sized laptop.
It still feels solid in the hand, build quality is as robust as ever, but the plastic inner bezel
around the display feels a little dated.
The
numbers around the display might not suit everyone, but there's not too much to complain about here, and it does suit a lot of different watch straps, too.
In use, the case can protect phones from drops up to 6.6 ft. onto concrete; a raised lip
around the display keeps the screen save if it is dropped face - down.
It is a tad cumbersome to have to place to
fingers around the display, but it does work, and seems to be fairly accurate when measuring the heart rate.
It is quite possible that the device will sport black
bars around the display, though they'll probably be really thin.
The textured
ring around the display can be turned to move through menus and we think it's the most intuitive and convenient control method implemented on any smartwatch to date.
The half - inch - wide bezel
around the display gives you a place to rest your thumbs that's not glass, which cuts down on fingerprints.
Select any dark wallpaper, which should blend in with the black
layer around the display, offering that bezel-less look.
An 8.3 - inch screen could mean a very thin
bezel around the display, with more room for the display, like on a phablet.
The combination of a thick and thin bezel
around the display make it uncomfortable to hold with two hands, unless you invest in one of Amazon's cases.
We're seeing plenty of manufacturers that are trying to remove as much
space around the displays of their mobile devices as possible, but few are considering that this may actually introduce usability issues.
The thick bezels
around the displays also adds extra width to the G Pad 7.0, making it less comfortable to hold in one hand than a 7 - inch tablet should be.
The thick bezels surrounding the 9.7 - inch screen are everything we're moving away from in the mobile industry; and while we still need some edges
around the display so we can hold the tablet, it would have been nice to see them slightly shaved down.
This weird little joystick fits perfectly at the driver's fingertips where it can used move a
cursor around the display above.
Where the ZenWatch 2's design was boring and generic enough to put you to sleep, the ZenWatch 3 has an eye - catching stainless steel case with rose gold
accents around the display, case and crown button.
zForce uses a small frame
around the display with light emitting diodes and photoreceptors on the opposites sides hidden behind a infrared - transparent black bezel.
But as I
go around the displays looking at all the hybrids and diesels and flex - fuel cars, it sure looks like the piston engine is going to...
Its tiny bezels all
around the display help make it more immersive when compared to a 16:9 display, but not all content works better in this aspect ratio.