A few days after Ice Universe teased an upcoming Vivo smartphone with a curved glass display and a screen-to-body ratio of “over 100%,” Oppo has begun showing images and photos of a phone that appears to have a similar design. That’s not surprising, since Oppo and Vivo are both subsidiaries of Chinese tech company BBK. […]
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Elephone PX smartphone has a dual-camera pop-up selfie shooter
Smartphone makers have been coming up with creative solutions to the question of where you hide the camera on a bezel-free phone. Apple (and a lot of other companies) stuck it in a notch in the screen. Vivo created a phone with a pop-up camera. And Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Lenovo opted for a slide-down screen […]
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Honor Magic 2 will be a bezel-free phone with slide-out cameras
Huawei is the latest company to unveil a smartphone with virtual no top bezel, no notch, and… no camera visible until you actually need to use it. Instead, the camera is embedded into a panel that slides out only when you want to take a photo, and which hides behind the screen when it’s not […]
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Bezel-free phones with camera cut-outs are now a thing (thanks to Sharp, Essential, Apple… probably)
14 Comments on Bezel-free phones with camera cut-outs are now a thing (thanks to Sharp, Essential, Apple… probably)Essential may have been the first company to unveil a smartphone that’s nearly all screen on three sides… but which makes up for the lack of a top bezel by leaving a cut-out for the camera. But rumor has it that Apple plans to take a similar approach for at least one of its upcoming […]
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How do you feel about the war on smartphone bezels?
Over the past few years we’ve seen smartphone bezels get thinner and thinner, until they’ve almost started to disappear altogether. But that’s led to some odd design choices. Xiaomi put a muffled speaker below the screen of the Mi Mix. Samsung moved its fingerprint sensor to the back of the phone on the Galaxy S8 […]
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Maze Alpha is a big, slim-bezel, dual-camera smartphone
Smartphones with slim bezels are all the rage these days. The Samsung Galaxy S8 grabs a lot of the bezel-free headlines these days, but the LG G6 also has pretty slim bezels. Xiaomi’s got a virtually bezel-free phone. And Chinese phone maker Elephone has a similar model on the way. I guess what I’m saying is that […]
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Bezels? Where we’re going we don’t need no bezels…
I don’t mind a little bezel on my smartphones — it gives me something to hold onto. But I know some folks have been longing for a phone that has nothing but screen on the front. We’re not quite living in the bezel-free future yet… but we’re getting closer. Chinese company LeTV is reportedly working […]