I'm waiting for the obvious «iPhone-esque» small tablet, with
smaller bezels on the side so you can work it better in portrait mode, instead of giving up that capability in return for some misguided attempt to make the tablet usable from all angles.
The teaser that Honor sent out is an invitation for an event that'll be held in London in December, and along with the text «Max your view», there's also an outline of a smartphone with very
small bezels on the sides, top, and bottom.
The screen stayed the same size, but bumped up to a fantastic 1920x1200 resolution, with
small bezels on the sides to keep total size down but with larger bezels on the top and bottom for holding in landscape mode for video.
They have
small bezels on the sides and top, but will have a huge chin at the bottom.
The 10.5 inch iPad Pro has a really
small bezel on the sides which makes the size of the two iPads almost the same.
The screen is huge and it leaves very
small bezels on the sides.
Not exact matches
The
bezels on the
sides of the tablet have also gotten
smaller in this year's model, intensifying the look of the larger top and bottom
bezels, and giving the entire tablet an elongated look and feel.
Bezels on either
side of the screen are
small but still leave enough room to hold the tablet without becoming awkward.
The new design includes a more compact keyboard, with the numbers row removed (accessible via symbol key), clustered,
smaller, navigation buttons
on both
sides, and a trimmed white space around the
bezels.
The
bezel is simple and clean, like the iPad 2's, with just the hardware features you need: well - positioned power and volume controls at the top, front and rear cameras placed unobtrusively (and they have much better image resolution and quality than the iPad 2's), an audio jack at the top,
small speaker notches
on the
sides, and charging / syncing connector at the bottom.
It's interesting that even with the
smaller size, they copied Apple's full, wide
bezels on all four
sides.
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.
Spotted by Britoid
on the forums of The Verge, the device appears to be a bigger tablet than the Nexus 7, yet
smaller than the Nexus 10, along with relatively thin
bezels on all
sides.
The iPad mini has narrower
bezels on the
side, which Apple used to keep the form nearly as
small, but with a larger display.
The
smaller one has the same giant
bezels as the original Pixel, but the Pixel 2 XL adopts much skinnier
bezels and curved edges
on the
side of the diplay.
That would mean a slightly thicker body,
smaller bezels, and stronger metal
on the
sides.
The Apex has miniscule 1.8 mm
bezels on three
sides of the device — the
smallest in the industry, according to the company — with the bottom bar at 4.3 mm.
Samsung chooses to go with asymmetrical
bezels, thicker
on the top than
on the
sides, and then goes a step further by curving the display in a way that the
side bezels seem even
smaller.
Yes, it has the
smallest display of the three — a 5.65 ″ one — but it is similarly endowed in resolution terms (2160 x 1080px) and comes with the 18:9 aspect ratio that seems set to become a trend, with narrow
bezels on the
sides and slightly wider ones
on the top and base.
Earlier leaks have printed a picture of the Mi Mix 2s with no
bezels whatsoever except a
small notch secluded
on the top right
side.
LG Display says the
bezels required by its new panel are 10 percent
smaller on the
sides and 20 percent
smaller at the top.
The Gear S2 has two buttons
on the
side — one for «back» and another for «home» — as well as a rotating
bezel to help alleviate navigating a rather complex interface
on a
small screen.
Since the beginning of it, Smartphones displays always had
bezels on both
sides as displays getting bigger,
bezels are getting
smaller.
We have seen various types of displays like complete 3
side bezel less displays like the Mi MIX 2, displays with narrow
bezels on top and bottom with curved edges like the infinity display of Samsung Note 8,
bezel less display with a section
on top like the Apple iPhone X display and other displays with
small modifications.
It sports a 5 - inch display with
small bezels on the left and right
sides that really looks nice and make the device even more compact.
We got the black model of the device, and it was certainly a handsome one with its narrow
bezels on the
sides and even relatively
small «chin» below its 5.7 - inch display (although there will be some who will frown at the
on - screen navigation touch buttons which take up the lower part of the screen).
It's also important to point out that both the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus have very
small bezels on the top and bottom, but the
sides appear to have little to no
bezels at all.
First of all, the LG G6 has super thin
bezels on all
sides, allowing that 5.7 - inch display to fit into the footprint of a phone with a much
smaller display.
The device sports a large 6 - inch display that fits into a
smaller chassis, thanks to the narrower
bezels on all the four
sides.
It makes for no
bezels on the
sides and very
small bezels top and bottom.
We've had
small side bezels on phones for years, so that is no longer exciting to people.
Samsung's flagships retain water resistance, a larger battery
on the plus versions, a headphone jack, and a microSD slot, all while not having a notched screen yet have
smaller side bezels than the iPhone X. That's great engineering.
The shape of the tablet and the placement of some buttons indeed looks like the Nexus 10 tablet, as some blogs have noticed, but the device appears to be a bit
smaller than the 10 - inch Nexus and the
bezels on the
sides of the tablet are nowhere near as wide as they are
on the Nexus 10.
LG answered to the calls with the G6, which has much
smaller bezels on all four
sides when compared to the LG G5.
Bezels on either
side of the screen are
small but still leave enough room to hold the tablet without becoming awkward.
Huawei does its best by offering
small bezels — less than 3 mm
on the left and right
sides — and extreme thinness of 7.18 mm.
Samsung's Galaxy S8 devices came with infinity display featuring
smaller bezels and curved edges
on both the
sides.
This is not the first time we've seen phones with
small bezels on three
sides, since the Xiaomi Mi Mix and its sequel exist, but those phones generally opted for a large chin.
The new display goes edge - to - edge
on the
sides, with very
small top and bottom
bezels.
Whatever your feelings are about it and whether it's just an easier engineering shortcut, the
small, black bar is there and, looking
on the bright
side, results in less
bezel around the watch overall.
The design of the phone is getting a little outdated and a little tired looking, especially when compared to Samsung's Infinity Display
on the Galaxy S8 — the
bezel free
sides and
small bezels at the top and bottom make the large
bezels on the iPhone almost «clown - like».
Samsung has managed to make the Galaxy S7 Edge the more compact phone by having a
smaller top and bottom chin, thinner
bezels, and adding curves to the glass
on the left and right
sides.
The top and bottom
bezels will be a fraction
smaller, although the
bezels on the
sides look somewhat larger.
Tiny
bezels run down the
sides of the screen and above it, where a
small speaker sits due to Xiaomi abandoning the piezoelectric speaker inside the display
on the first Mi Mix.
The Huawei P20 has a glass back and a metal frame like many recent flagships, and also follows the recent trend of having a notch at the top of the screen, allowing for
smaller bezels overall (though you can essentially turn this off if you'd prefer, by adding a black
on - screen
bezel either
side).
The display gets closer to the edges
on every
side, making the
side bezels a lot
smaller than any other OnePlus phone.
A reoccurring theme of late is that the iPad mini will «look like a big iPod touch» with
smaller bezels along the
sides in portrait mode and separate volume buttons and not a «rocker» and a mic
on the back.
Despite the
smaller display, the Honor 7 has a lower screen to body ratio, with Huawei making the display frameless
on the Ascend Mate 7 but having to add
small bezels to the
sides of the Honor 7 screen.
Still, we can see a phone that has a much
smaller bottom
bezel and no
bezel on the other three
sides.
By moving the camera down, LG was able to use
smaller bezels to
on the
sides and top of the screen.