Rumors also suggest that Apple will soon announce a new iPad with a 10.5 - inch display squeezed into the same form factor as the 9.7 - inch model, thanks to
much slimmer bezels.
Straight away the first thing we noticed about the new phone is how
much slimmer the bezels are compared to the Moto X4.
by spurning HTC to partner with LG, which offered a design with
much slimmer bezels for that 6 - inch phone.
Google reportedly deviated from its original plan for the Pixel 2 XL by spurning HTC to partner with LG, which offered a design with
much slimmer bezels for that 6 - inch phone.
The ZenFone Max Plus improves upon its predecessors with a 5.7 - inch, 18:9 display and
much slimmer bezels at the top and bottom.
Leaked images seemed to show a device around the same size as the existing Galaxy S5, but with
much slimmer bezels and a new battery door pattern.
Samsung released a teaser video for the event, which essentially confirms the Galaxy S8 will have
much slimmer bezels than its predecessor.
His design shows the same overall size Watch, but will
much slimmer bezels.
The new phone's dimensions are almost identical to that of the original Pixel, but thanks to the new 18:9 display ratio — and, more importantly,
much slimmer bezels, top and bottom — you get somewhere near 5 / 8th of an inch of extra vertical screen real estate.
Not exact matches
Paperwhite ditches the chip - prone silver paint of the previous Kindle generation for a black finish, a soft - touch - painted back panel, and its new capacitive touch sensor lets it
slim down, with a
much thinner
bezel.
Apple could have spent the past half decade gradually
slimming down the
bezels around its iPhone,
much as the majority of its Android rivals have done by evolving the design of their handsets.
It looks clean and simple, and there's not
much wasted space here, with
slim bezels surrounding the screen.
The good news is most phones with
slim bezels have figured out
much more elegant solutions.
The
slim top
bezel of the P20 features a 24 - megapixel camera whose exact specifications are yet to be disclosed, though it likely relies on an f / 2.0 lens,
much like all recent Huawei - made flagships.
Extremely
slim bezels mean there's
much more screen stuffed into the shape: 83 percent of the phone's face is all yours for tapping and viewing.
Since the
bezels will be
much slimmer than on the U Ultra and U11, we can expect the U11 Plus to be only slightly bigger than the U11 in terms of physical dimensions, despite sporting a 0.5» bigger display.
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.
The
bezels around the screen are
much slimmer than before, helping to make this the best - looking display yet on a Moto.
However, they managed to make it easy to use by keeping the
bezels slim and the phone
much longer than increasing the width.
The 10.5 - inch iPad Pro has
slimmer bezels than the other models, which means you get more screen space in a form factor that's not
much larger than that of the 9.7 - inch iPad.
Samsung pretty
much blew us all away with the 18:9,
slim -
bezel design of the Galaxy S8, and the S9 doesn't stray too far from the winning formula.
The device seen in the image above shares
much more similarities with the more recent handset, boasting an 18:9 display panel and relatively
slim bezels.
Not only does the Nova sport a super-high-res, easy to maneuver Full HD 5 - inch display, but its
bezels are unusually
slim, and the stylish rear cover borrows heavily from the
much - praised Google - endorsed Nexus 6P.
It's got a larger screen than the iPhone, and is noticeably taller, but those
slim bezels mean it's
much smaller than it could be if it followed Apple's
bezel - heavy design approach with the 8 Plus.
Renders of the upcoming devices have leaked, and they appear to show a
much improved design with an aluminium frame, a
slimmer chassis, and smaller
bezels.
We can also expect the new device to have some of the
slimmest side
bezels of any phone on the market since LG has been a trailblazer when it comes to creating phones where the display takes up as
much of the front panel as possible — the LG G2's display, for example, takes up more than 75 % of the device's front panel, better than any other smartphone.
Slim bezels on the sides also make it that
much easier to handle.
Note how though the device is significantly taller, the
slim bezels means it's not
much wider:
The LCD iPhone is expected to look very
much like an iPhone X and will include Face ID and
slimmer bezels.
The devices will reportedly have no Home button,
much like the iPhone X, and feature
slimmer bezels.
+ Premium design;
slim bezels, all aluminium chassis + Powerful and efficient Huawei Kirin 950; amazing battery life and performance figures + Comfortable to hold even with the huge 6.0» display + Fast fingerprint sensor; includes multiple gestures + EMUI 4.0 based on Android 6.0 is
much improved over its predecessors + Built - in pedometer and altimeter to keep track of your activity + Great audio quality from the 3.5 mm output + Excellent 6.0» 1080p IPS NEO display
The Galaxy Alpha's front is otherwise
much like the Galaxy S5 or the Note 4 on a smaller scale, with Samsung's
slim home button doubling as a fingerprint reader, a screen that fills the face, and a dot - finish
bezel.
The large screen is made
much more manageable by Samsung's Infinity Display, bringing curved edges and
slim bezels to the Note for the first time.
Furthermore, it's unclear how
much of the
slimmer bezels date back to muskie.
As with the XPS 13, the Carbon's
slim bezels and minimal excess bulk results in a system
much smaller than the screen size, in this case 14 inches, might suggest.
There's no doubt that HTC has been working on
slimming down the
bezels, because the U11 Plus has a
much higher screen - to - body ratio than its smaller sibling.
While I initially only appreciated the front fascia for how
much sleeker it looked with
slimmer bezels, I came to realize just how
much more screen real estate you get with this phone, after comparing it with older devices of the same dimensions.
The Mi A2 will boast a 5.99 - inch display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, and when you combine this with considerably
slimmer bezels, we should end up with a
much more modern - looking phone compared to the Mi A1.
The Galaxy S9 and S9 + are two of the sleekest smartphones on Earth, and now they have
slimmer bezels to make their Infinity Displays that
much more immersive.