The original Mi Mix from last year is believed to be the device that triggered the ultra-thin
bezel design trend that's currently being adopted by other major smartphone manufacturers.
However, the LG V30 will also be jumping aboard the slim
bezel design trend this year going by the teaser photo that LG shared yesterday.
Not exact matches
With the Mate 10, Huawei has followed the thin -
bezel -
design trend seen on many recent smartphones.
The Chinese original equipment manufacturer seemingly opted to follow the latest
design trends in the industry and deliver a smartphone with a tall screen surrounded by slim
bezels, yet opted to differentiate itself from its rivals by retaining the physical Home button found on the Nova 2i that now barely fits onto the new handset's bottom
bezel.
It also appears to fall in line with the current market
trend by adopting a display with a 2:1 (18:9) aspect ratio, however, the live photos accompanying the TENAA application seem to show that this is not a full - screen border-less
design, but rather it adopts a more conventional look with relatively thick top and bottom
bezels.
For the iPhone X, Apple decided to use a nearly
bezel - free
design for the phone's 5.7 - inch display, something that has been a growing
trend on many other Android smartphones for the past couple of years or so.
While the
design trend this year is clearly revolving around displays with notches and smaller
bezels, Vivo is ditching the notch, the buttons and the external fingerprint readers, and putting everything into the display of the phone.
HMD Global seeks to emulate the
trending design of smaller
bezels with the Nokia 9.
No -
bezel displays have already highlighted themselves as one of 2017's smartphone
design trends, which is no bad thing.
As you'll have noticed, it's in line with the biggest
trend in phone
design for 2017 — that of slimming down the
bezels around the screen as much as possible.
In the age of the «bezel-less»
design trend, the phones have minimal
bezels and edge - to - edge displays, such as the iPhone X, Galaxy Note 8 and Mi Mix 2.
This is also where we must mention
design, mainly due to the recent
trend of putting longer displays with smaller
bezels on smartphones.
But where those phones had stale 16:9 screens and outdated
designs, the XZ2 fully embraces the modern
trends, with a 5.7 - inch Full HD (1920x1080) 18:9 screen, slim -
bezel all - glass
design, and a rear fingerprint sensor.
And the common
trends in smartphone
design are making other components bigger: dual cameras with bigger pixels, big front cameras, smaller
bezels, and waterproofing.
In the laptop world, Dell's XPS 13 gets a lot of credit for having a great
design, excellent battery life and that nifty Infinity Edge display that started the
trend of slimmer
bezels on laptops.
Tiny
bezels are the hottest
trend in smartphone
design in 2017, and so far Samsung is leading the pack among top - tier smartphone vendors.
While thin
bezels have been a general
trend among smartphone makers in 2017, pundits have suggested that such a
design for the Galaxy S9 could make it look a lot like the iPhone X. Whether this means the device would have a top notch similar to Apple's smartphone remains unknown, but sources told SamMobile that the Galaxy S9 may have a top
bezel thinner than its bottom
bezel.
Reinforcing the
trend of bezel-less displays, V30 + ditches
bezels, and is packed in a beautiful
design that never fails to impress.
With the Mate 10, Huawei has followed the thin -
bezel -
design trend seen on many recent smartphones.
Design wise it's on -
trend, with a thin
bezel, hairline finish and angular pedestal.
As suggested by the newly uncovered renders that are said to have been made by Sony itself, the company's non-premium offerings will retain the majority of its established OmniBalance
design that some consumers and reviewers started criticizing as outdated over the course of this year, primarily due to its relatively large
bezels launched as part of new mobile offerings amid a major
bezel - free
trend in the smartphone industry.
Modern smartphone
design trends are about reducing
bezel size, but Motorola hasn't bothered here, which leaves their
design looking dated.
The current smartphone
trend right now is making
bezels incredibly thin, while making devices appear to have an all - screen
design.
That refreshed XPS 13
design quickly kicked off a
trend in laptop
design — to the point that computer manufacturers now actually brag about how slim their
bezels are, as if we were talking about a smartphone.
This gives the device with a slim
bezel design matching the current
design trends.
Keeping up with today's smartphone
trend, the X5 features a «borderless»
design with minimal
bezels.
The overall look of the supposed Le X indicates LeEco has been following the latest industry
trends in 2017 and opted to
design a smartphone with minimal
bezels and an elongated display panel featuring an aspect ratio of 18:9, i.e. 2:1.
Following the overall smartphone industry
trends, the iPhone 8 may feature a
design with thin
bezels and no physical home button.
The Mate 10 phones see the Chinese giant get on board with the skinny -
bezel trend of 2017 while leveraging its ability in silicon
design to supposedly improve AI - related performance.
The Asus Zenfone 5 thus represents both sides of the new phone screen
trends: the good of slimming
bezels and the bad of a deliberately derivative
design.
Its display is somewhat less conventional, with an unusual 18:9 aspect ratio and rounded corners, although its ultra-thin
bezels are very much in line with current industry
design trends.