French device maker Archos hasn’t been a big name in the Android tablet space for a while, but the company continues to crank out entry-level and mid-range smartphones year after year. The latest include two phones that actually look pretty good on paper, especially when you consider their prices. And then there are the other […]
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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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Asus VivoBook S15 leaked (15 inch screen in a 14 inch body)
Slim bezels are all the rage with smartphones, but also with laptops. A few years after Dell kicked off the trend with the redesign of its XPS 13, companies including Lenovo, HP, and Asus have followed suit with premium notebooks that purportedly cram a 13 inch screen into an 11.6 inch body (or 14 into 13, […]
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Xiaomi Mi Mix slim-bezel smartphone inspires knockoffs
Xiaomi’s Mi Mix is a striking looking smartphone with ceramic body, a big 6.4 inch display, and super-slim bezels on the top, right, and left sides. But while the Mi Mix is a premium phone that sells for over $500 in China, a number of other companies have drawn inspiration from the Mix design and unveiled […]
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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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Elephone smartphone prototype: Slim bezels, ultra-wide display, physical home button
Chinese smartphone maker Elephone is showing off pictures of a new phone that looks more than a little like rival Xiaomi’s Mi Mix. Like the Mi Mix, Elephone’s new device has super-slim left, right, and top bezels with a bit of a bezel below the screen. But the Elephone model has one thing Xiaomi’s phone does […]
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This is what (part of) Andy Rubin’s new phone looks like
One of the co-founders of Android left Google a few years ago. But earlier this year it was reported that he had a new startup called Essential Products that was developing a new phone. Now we have the first peek at that phone… or at least part of it. Andy Rubin posted this image to […]
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Screen sizes don’t tell you how big a phone is anymore
For years we’ve been able to get a rough idea of how big a smartphone was by looking at the screen size. The original iPhone had a 3.5 inch display. The HTC Evo 4G seemed enormous when it first launched, thanks to its 4.3 inch display. These days there are phones with screens as big […]
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AsusPro B9440 is a 2.3 pound, 14 inch notebook
2017 seems to be a good year for laptops with super-slim bezels. Dell kicked things off a few years ago with its XPS 13 line of laptops that had featured 13.3 inch displays in computers the size of 12 inch laptops, thanks to skinny bezels around the sides of the screen. This year Dell is […]
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Asus Zenbook UX410 is a 14 inch Kaby Lake laptop with slim bezels
Asus has a new laptop on the way, and and although the Zenbook UX410 has a 14 inch display, it’s expected to be the size of a laptop with a 13.3 inch or smaller display thanks to slim bezels around the screen. According to the new product page for the laptop, the Asus Zenbook UX410 […]