These phones include taller
screens with smaller bezels, keeping the size of the phone the same but giving you more screen real estate and a larger screen - to - body ratio.
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.
The notch adds a negligible amount of screen and information (it is almost no gain at all for information) vs a
phone with smaller bezels believe it or not.
The Pixel 2 design is slightly different from the
original with smaller bezels, a streamlined body, and a glass panel on the back where the camera lives.
They have become very
thin with small bezels, so there's barely any room to put decent speakers on the product.
They will both feature a dual - curved
screen with small bezels that, according to the latest leaked images, looks gorgeous.
The technology is also coming at the right time: we expect to see a lot of
devices with small bezels around the screen in the near future, like the soon to be announced LG G6 and Samsung Galaxy S8.
In an effort to make bigger phones
with smaller bezels easier to handle, manufacturers are adopting an 18:9 aspect ratio — think Samsung's Galaxy S8 or LG's V30, and others.
Like the other recent leaks, the smartphones in the photos come
with small bezels above and below the screen and the handsets have a fourth physical button on the right side, which will ostensibly be used to activate the Galaxy S8's virtual personal assistant Bixby.
Considering that it was the first major smartphone to
release with small bezels and a 18:9 aspect ratio, signs point to the next phone keeping in line with that general design philosophy: a large, tall screen in a compact build.
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Now, however, Apple has given its full - sized iPad Air a mini makeover, with the 9.7 - inch slate sporting a cleaner and sleeker
aesthetic with smaller bezels and chamfered edges.
While flagship makers battle for the top
spot with small bezels and pixel - perfect cameras, Motorola has been winning a more quiet, but equally important fight: to offer desired features in a phone without costing too much.
Real innovation would have been a 4.3» iPhone
6S with smaller bezels that has the same foot print as a iPhone 5S while fixing the camera hump.
We may see an Apple
Watch with smaller bezels, which would probably be the easiest way to adopt those bigger displays without increasing the size of the watches.
Most of the regular Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Vivo, OnePlus features a big display
with small bezels with a fingerprint sensor at the front or back.
The 10.5 - inch iPad Pro is rumored to have a body that's similar in size to the current 9.7 - inch iPad Pro, but
with smaller bezels nearly edge - to - edge bezels resulting in a 10.5 - inch display.
Meanwhile, would you like Google Pixel 2 to come
with smaller bezels when compared to what the Pixel and Pixel XL have to offer?
Coupled with the small bezels, and despite having a screen as big as on the iPhone 6 Plus, the G Flex 2 manages to almost be a one - handed device, which is kind of amazing.
It has a 5.7 - inch 18:9 display, with a HD + resolution of 720 x 1440, and the fingerprint sensor has been moved to the side of the device to allow for more screen real
estate with smaller bezels.
It remains to be seen when the first
mid-rangers with smaller bezels from Samsung hit the shelves, but expect more news in this regard later this year, most likely at the IFA show in Berlin (taking place August 31 — September 5).
That's an event steeper difference than last year, when the two models were about $ 100 apart, but that falls in line with Google positioning the XL as the more premium
model with the small bezels.
Until now, Samsung has been using flexible OLED
panels with small bezels on flagships only, especially because the technology is expensive and premium models are the only ones that can accommodate the price.
In the other corner we have the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, perhaps the thinnest and lightest 10.5 - inch tablet on the
market with small bezels, fingerprint scanner, and lots of bells and whistles.
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.
The LG Q6 offers the same style of «FullVision» 18:9 display as the
G6 with small bezels to carry on the flagship phone's looks.
The Pixel 2 and OnePlus 5T do have many technical specs in common; however, the OP5T looks better from the
outside with its smaller bezels and new 18:9 display ratio.
The Pixel 2 XL, on the other hand, received a major upgrade,
now with smaller bezels and dual front - facing speakers.
The sleek, new Pixel 2
XL with its small bezels takes on the more dated looking, but equally powerful, Moto Z2 Force with its larger bezels.
As the first of a new breed of
smartphones with small bezels and wide - screen displays, the G6 is a compelling alternative to phones such as the Google Pixel XL.
The LG G6 did away with the LG G5's unpopular painted metal and modular body for a new sleek, all glass
design with smaller bezels.