2017 may be the year that Samsung, LG, and Apple (probably) jumped on the bezel-less bandwagon. But Xiaomi beat those companies to market when it launched the Mi Mix in 2016. Now Xiaomi is launching a second-gen model with a smaller body, more powerful specs, and an eye-catching design with slim bezels, an aluminum frame, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Xiaomi’s Mi Mix is a crazy 6.4 inch smartphone for bezel-haters
Some folks seem to wish the front of a smartphone was nothing but screen, seeing bezels as wasted space. We’re not quite there yet… but Xiaomi’s upcoming Mi Mix smartphone comes pretty close. The phone has a 6.4 inch display and 91.3 percent screen-to-body ratio. That’s thanks to ultra-slim bezels around the top and sides, […]