Its slim, fashionable design fits neatly on the wrist and comes in berry with gold bezel, powder grey with rose gold bezel, azure blue with silver bezel, and black with slate bezel.
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The bezel is just a hair skinnier than the iPad Pro's bezel.
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The back of Samsung's "bezel-less" SUHD TV. The "bezel-less" claim is an exaggeration, surely, but not by much.
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It has a slim bezel, 144Hz 1080p matte display, and a Windows Hello-capable IR camera in the top bezel.
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"It a watch was caught in a fire, one of the first things that will get damaged will be the bezel of the watch, especially if it is a plastic bezel or a Bakelite bezel," he added.
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Although Vizio touts the Quantum as bezel-free, there is a tiny half-inch-wide bezel which is close to nothing.
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The touch bezel navigation is a joy to use, and a natural progression from the signature rotating bezel of its older watches.
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There's still a large bezel below the display and a bezel on the top to house the webcam, but I'm fine with that.
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Thin-bezel phones are quickly going to take over the market, and anyone stuck with a fat-bezel device will feel behind the curve.
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Instead of a mechanical bezel that rotates, the glass bezel around the screen is expected to be touch sensitive and allow for rotating gestures to work.
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The Pixel (right) always looked dorky with it's home button free bezel, but it looks even worse next to the micro-bezel on the S8+ (left).
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Birthstone Bezel Ring, $100The Birthstone Bezel incorporates a personalized birthstone on a solid gold chain to give the jewel the illusion of floating on your finger.
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It a 4K touchscreen display that Lenovo describes as nearly bezel-less, but it does still have that massive bezel on the bottom portion of the display.
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It's wrapped in that white bezel—and the way a white bezel looks next to a vibrant display is what really makes this look appealing for me.
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Companies like Dell (and Lenovo, briefly) have solved the problem of the thin top bezel by putting the webcam in the bottom bezel under the screen instead.
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The nearly bezel-free Xiaomi Mi Mix kicked off the Great Bezel Race of 2017, and now it seems like its successor may be right around the corner.
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While you can't find a bezel at the top of the device, the View 20 still has a chin — a small bezel at the bottom of the device.
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This was in part made possible by housing the camera behind the large bezel that matched the size of the bottom bezel where the home button is located.
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But the iPhone X itself doesn't do a lot we haven't seen tried on smartphones before—Samsung has experimented with bezel-to-bezel OLED screens and facial recognition.
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Instead of meeting the bezel at sharp points, the edges of the display and bezel share a nice curve that makes the display feel much larger and more open.
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Adding the touch bezel interface to the Galaxy Watch Active should be particularly welcome after complaining in our review that it lacked the rotating bezel of previous Samsung smartwatches.
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And while the S211's blank bezel below the display isn't quite as feature rich, it creates a nicely balanced aesthetic without the ridiculous excess of previous fat bezel phones.
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The new phone's screen-to-bezel ratio is greater than 90 percent, and though its bottom isn't shown in the image, it's only slightly taller than the top bezel (below).
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The bottom bezel is said to be "almost 50 percent slimmer" than the G6's, and of course there's that notch at the top in place of a top bezel.
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The phone in the photo has a very slim bezel on top (note the speaker in the middle) and a slightly heftier, but still quite slim bezel on the bottom.
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The display has a small chin at the bottom, a smaller bezel at the top, and yes, virtually no bezel on the sides when you look at the phone head-on.
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But the bezel... well, you're going to notice that bezel every time you see an iPhone X or XS anywhere near an XR. It's very large, and it definitely makes the iPhone XR seem less premium than the iPhone XS. To be clear, the bezel is there for a reason: it houses the LCD backlight.
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The laptop's webcam has been moved from the incredibly awkward spot on the lower left side of the bezel to the slightly less awkward spot in the middle of the lower bezel.
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Out of the box, the Frame has a thin, black bezel, but you can buy a customizable bezel with a walnut, beige wood, or white finish for an extra $200 or $250, depending on the size of your TV. The decorative bezel snaps right on to the TV using magnets and takes about 60 seconds to install.
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The notch can be turned on or off if you prefer a full bezel at the top of the phone, and you can also customize the bezel, so that it isn't entirely black.
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The bottom bezel is fixed in place and all you can do to optimize your design is reduce the top bezel by turning it into a notch instead of a full-width bar.
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That said, you might not need to buy a bezel separately unless you want a second one — during the sale, if you buy a Frame TV, you'll get a matching bezel for free.
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Too bad you have to use the bezel to steer.
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What does seem imminent is the end of the bezel.
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The bezel is quickly getting killed off on premium phones.
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There's no notch, although there is a bezel on top.
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There's still a rather big chin and top bezel, though.
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There's also a tiny sliver of bezel on the bottom.
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I'll take a tiny bezel over a notch any day.
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And yes, friends, it is missing the signature rotating bezel.
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The bottom bezel on LG's new flagship is considerably smaller.
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The bezel around the screen could use some shrinking, though.
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They come with a black leather band and black bezel.
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The spinning bezel is back, because of course it is.
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The "chin" has the widest bezel, but it's barely wider.
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Early leaks suggest an even smaller bezel — well of course!
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Fortunately, the bezel control is back in the Active 2.
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The Galaxy Watch, meanwhile, already has a rotating mechanical bezel.
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If Apple is doing away with the home button, there will not be a need for a large bezel on the bottom so Apple could reduce the size of the top bezel as well.
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It's fabulous that the screen runs "edge-to-edge" and doesn't have a thicker "chin" bezel below the screen like most Android copycats, but the thicker bezel running all around the screen may bother you.
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The Vapor 2 gets rid of the distinctive touch bezel. Sad.
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In the Gear S3, the bezel is a digital navigation device.
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The laptop weighs only 3.3 pounds and has 7.8mm-thick bezel.
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Most of these bezel-less displays show up on larger devices.
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The Motorola name is still stamped across the smaller bottom bezel.
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The rotating bezel was a terrific addition to that last device.
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Apple did it by significantly decreasing the bezel surrounding the screen.
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However, cramming the Motorola logo onto the bottom bezel is questionable.
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The black bezel underneath is what the naked TV looks like.
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But what's the point of that near bezel-less screen, then?
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Lola Brooks bezel-set ruby ring, $1,125 at Love Adorned; loveadorned.com.
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The other being that considerable bezel/hinge between the two screens.
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The G2.2 Power will reportedly have a slightly thinner bottom bezel.
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Over the last few weeks, the company has teased an upcoming Z23 phone with what appeared to be a truly bezel-less design, meaning it was expected to have no notch and no bottom "chin" bezel.
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To show just how effective the decorative technique is, he placed a bezel covered with bris de verre next to a real diamond, and it was easy to see that the bezel had a brighter sparkle.
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The rotating bezel is still present — which is always a good thing.
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I liked the bezel before and find it just as effective now.
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But the bezel that runs down the middle is hard to ignore.
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Its bezel is bejeweled with no less than 68 Swarovski Zirconia crystals.
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The slim bezel is about as wide as that silver Vizio logo.
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As futuristic as those phones look, they're not quite fully bezel-less.
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Although, its amiability ends with a thick bezel and highly reflective gloss.
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One thing you may notice is the thicker bezel around the display.
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But the bezel around the 1.1-inch screen isn't exactly small, either.
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The future has arrived, and it's leaving the bezel behind for good.
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The display appears bezel less, giving you the optimal amount of screen.
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The bezel is gone, at least, replaced with a thinner black one.
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But there's a certain satisfaction in twisting the older bezel that's lacking.
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The decorate white bezel snaps on with magnets and costs over $200.
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Instead of an actual rotating gear, the Active227 has a digital bezel.
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Refinements include a thinner bezel and crown, and redesigned numerals and indexes.
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However, as with the previous Versa, there's a big and unsightly bezel.
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Fitbit also (finally) got rid of its logo on the bottom bezel.
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The bezel is the border between a smartphone's display and its frame.
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It's so nice to not have a bezel running down the middle.
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Introducing #MiMIXAlpha, 4D surrounding curved display, delivering a true, bezel-less experience.
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To lend fuel to my bezel-free fever, John Gruber has heard "scuttlebutt" about a bezel-less iPhone in 2017 (presumably that would be the iPhone 8, since it seems weird to call a total redesign the iPhone 7S).
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Tilting and twisting the bezel lets people control the watch like a joystick.
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Swipe up quickly from the bottom bezel to return to the home screen.
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You just have to get used to the bezel breaks between your doodles.
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It's unclear if the copper gold model will come with a white bezel.
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The top bezel is still beefy so it can handle a 10603p webcam.
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Some of the phone's display would roll underneath a bezel on the bottom.
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There's still bezel above and below the screen, but they're narrower than before.
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Worst case, it has a huge bezel at the top, as Engadget claims.
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The images also confirm on-screen navigation keys and that tiny bottom bezel.
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What's more, its surrounding bezel is machined from a single piece of aluminum.
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But still, its existence shows how quickly the bezel-less trend is spreading.
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The differences are largely in thickness, bezel, and their built-in sound system.
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And it helps to almost completely eliminate the top bezel of the phone.
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The screen does, however, have a pretty massive black bezel around its edges.
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Both Android phones have metal and glass bodies and huge bezel-less screens.
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The extra width all comes out of the bezel, which has basically disappeared.
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There's one 15-inch, bezel-free, horizontally-oriented touchscreen panel — and that's it.
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And despite it being narrower, there's still a "chin" bezel below the screen.
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The bezel does look uncommonly big as if it is missing some hardware.
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Granted, Samsung has been extremely vigilante in its ongoing war against the bezel.
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The most stunning of these is the Infinity Display and bezel-less design.
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Zoë Chicco 14K Yellow Gold Single Bezel Turquoise Necklace 14-Inches, $265; bloomingdales.com
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If it's protected by the bezel of the design then, it's - not proud.
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I'm just ready for a fully bezel-less phone at a low cost.
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Here's the corner of the Frame with the optional "customizable bezel" partially removed.
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In the process of removing the bezel, Apple also eliminated the home button.
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"Stainless steel and glass meld seamlessly to minimize bezel," says the video's narrator.
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The Sofie's more feminine design and pavé bezel is more geared towards women.
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There is a bezel, but it's hard to perceive at just 2.3 millimeters.
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There is a bezel, but it's hard to perceive at just 250 millimeters.
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The top bezel is 5.8mm thick, seemingly too thin to fit a webcam.
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A right swipe from the left bezel returns you to the home screen.
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There are already phones like the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 that have bezel-less displays on three sides, but they still need a thin bezel on the phone's "forehead" or "chin" to house the selfie camera (and often other sensors, too).
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Having two buttons and a rotating bezel make a huge impact on everyday usability.
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Besides the smaller screen, a lot of people complained about the missing bezel control.
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The only noticeable bezel rim, really, is the chin, where the selfie camera resides.
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As such, there's still the remnants of a black bezel around the edges here.
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The Vapor's unique touch-sensitive bezel will also be supported by Android Wear 2.0.
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Everyone seems to think bezel-less devices are the immediate future, and I agree.
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They work fine, but they are a little clumsier than the old rotating bezel.
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It ditched the rotating bezel and gained the ability to monitor your blood pressure.
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Well, the bezel, and a Lightning port that's vertically off-center on the bottom.
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The watch has a bezel that looks like it should rotate, but it doesn't.
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In landscape orientation, the left bezel is about 2500mm and the right is 24mm.
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While it falls short of being completely bezel-less, it might as well be.
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The bezel-less revolution has been steadily rolling through smartphones for the past year.
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Yes, bezel-less screens look fantastic, but that's only a piece of the puzzle.
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That means the bottom bezel is going to be tougher to get rid of.
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But buttons also take up a lot of space on an e-reader's bezel.
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That's because it comes with one puzzling feature that's surprisingly useful—a rotating bezel.
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It's just the familiar dense monolith of technology, with the top bezel magically erased.
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So on top of that big bezel you need to deal with software keys.
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Think only heavyweights like Samsung and LG can create smartphones with nearly no bezel?
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Around the sides is an aluminum bezel that both looks and feels really premium.
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The lens cap is bright white to contrast with the large surrounding black bezel.
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LG previously said the V30 will have a near bezel-less 6-inch screen.
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch Active has two side buttons instead of a rotating bezel.
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The bezel wasn't merely for show — rotating it controlled the Tizen OS-powered interface.
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The Tizen-powered smartwatch is comfortable and the rotating bezel makes navigation a breeze.
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Anyway, there's this one rumor I keep coming back to: the bezel-less iPhone.
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It has a 13.3″ screen, with a slimmer bezel (now black, rather than aluminum).
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Now, about that Fitbit logo on the thick bezel below the screen... it's hideous.
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A magnet on the iMac's side bezel held an Apple remote in place too.
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The watch looks similar to the Gear S2 Classic with its less-obvious bezel.
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The reMarkable and its bezel fit comfortably within the screen area of the DPT.
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I've been using Speck phone cases for years because of their raised bezel design.
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Then, that fall, a thin-and-chiseled, nearly bezel-free iPad Pro was revealed.
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Gorgeous as it is, the bezel-less 8K QLED solves none of 8K's problems.
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With the Pros, there's a very crisp delineation between the bezel and the display.
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Other smartphone makers have taken a different approach to eliminating the notch and bezel.
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Unlike the Tab Active 2, though, the Tab Active Pro's physical Recent, Home, and Back buttons are located in the lower bezel when the tablet is in landscape position — the Tab Active 2 has them in the lower bezel in portrait position.
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All the most important controls and info can be accessed just by twisting the bezel.
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Samsung's rotating bezel and touchscreen combo is still the best smartwatch interface on the market.
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You can expect a bezel-free display, no Home Button, facial recognition, and other goodies.
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On most devices, these live above the display in a wide bezel or a notch.
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The first is a new bezel-less design similar to that of the Galaxy S8.
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Even the arrangement of the sensors and cameras built into the top bezel look unchanged.
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Liu De, co-founder and Vice President of Xiaomi Xiaomi's (almost) bezel-free Mi Mix.
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The only curves left are the around the bezel, which is thinner than on iPads.
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New bezel-less design: The biggest change to the S8 is the entirely new design.
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Simply touch the bezel on this digital gauge and it changes what information is displayed.
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The sides are completely encased in a bumper, monopolizing considerable bezel space on the front.
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Customers can pay extra to customize the Frame through their bezel color and material choice.
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For example, "why the huge bezel" and what is the fascination with gold-colored gadgets?
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Where do you put the front-facing camera on a bezel-less phone, for instance?
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It has a stainless steel metal bezel, a glass face, and an always-on display.
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The 13-inch Notebook 9 Pro features a slimmer bezel and an updated backlit keyboard.
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That bezel-less (but notched) display on Apple's device is also sumptuous to look at.
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Android still has to display a menu bar, which it does below the simulated bezel.
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Samsung's leaned in further on the curves, leaving little to no bezel on the thing.
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There are a few kinks to iron out when it comes to bezel-free tech.
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This solves the issue of needing a bezel or notch for camera to sit in.
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The Galaxy Watch is powered by Samsung's own Tizen OS, controllable via the rotatable bezel.
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Like a big camera bump, poorly placed volume buttons, and an obnoxiously large bottom bezel.
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That said, nixing the rotating bezel doesn't mean the Galaxy Watch Active doesn't have one.
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READ ME:Beautifully designed—so much so you can forgive Samsung for nixing the rotating bezel.
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The TV is bezel-less so it completely blends into whatever surface it's hanging on.
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The Galaxy Note 8 and Essential Phone, two devices that also have bezel-light fronts.
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The Latitude 13 comes with the same "InfinityEdge" screen, so the bezel are almost nonexistent.
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Most notable is the removal of the Samsung's signature bezel around the watch's 40mm display.
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It has a light gray aluminum body with a glossy black bezel surrounding the screen.
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Sharp actually made a phone with one bezel back in 2014: But am I satisfied?
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There are differences, of course: the bezel on the back is angled instead of curved.
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And every picture looks bigger thanks to the ultra-thin bezel along all four sides.
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Samsung got so, so close to completely eliminating the bezel on its 88-inch flagship.
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Tizen OS is fast, smooth, and easy to navigate, especially with the digital rotating bezel.
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On the opposite side, the bezel is super thin, as is the e-reader's body.
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There's also a sizable bezel beneath the screen that houses a barely visible home button.
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The company is trying to create a bezel-less phone with the Mi Mix line.
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S8 advertising focuses on features such as almost bezel-less screens rather than highlighting safety.
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And it is great: Amazingly crispy image, stunning dynamic range and a barely-there bezel.
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Anyways, what we mean by bezel-less is the Q950TS consists of 99 percent display.
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The neatest part of the watch is the touch-sensitive bezel around the circular screen.
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This computer is best known for its striking, almost bezel-less touchscreen with 4K resolution.
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But HP has engineered the world's smallest Windows Hello-enabled IR webcam for that bezel.
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The near bezel-less display adds to the device's streamlined look and immersive user experience.
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Every element, from the bezel to the buttons, were designed to absorb and displace shock.
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A Rubik's Cube game filled the screen with the classic cube, but didn't let me use the bezel to turn the puzzle cube an Asphalt racing game tries to employ the bezel for steering, but it was so sluggish and unresponsive that I gave up.
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LG is bringing its impressive bezel-less smartphone display to a new mid-range Q22 handset.
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The company's bezel-less Mi Mix, in particular, won it plaudits for innovative thinking and design.
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The 43 mm Fossil Sport (left) has a slightly larger bezel if you have eagle eyes.
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It's big bezel and sharp angles can't even beat the gentle curves of an Apple Watch.
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It also features a larger display and is missing the Samsung logo across the top bezel.
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This thing is also sturdy, with a virtually bezel-free display, great keyboard, and exceptional touchpad.
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But the bezel practically disappears, and the webcam is placed exactly where a webcam should be.
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BlackBerry 'Ghost': a bezel-less, premium Android handset from licensee Optiemus; coming soon to India. pic.twitter.
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"Eighty-nine percent of smartphone users want a narrow bezel with a larger screen," explains Kang.
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The 210S has a round face, a fiber-reinforced polymer body, and a stainless steel bezel.
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TL;DR: these buttons take time to learn, even with button identifiers etched on the bezel.
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The two phones are similar in that they're both all screen with a tiny surrounding bezel.
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The device is rumored to feature a 5.7-inch display with a minimal bezel surrounding it.
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The biggest upgrade for the Galaxy Watch Active 2 might be its rumored touch-sensitive bezel.
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While I didn't lament the loss of the rotatable bezel, many other reviewers and consumers did.
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Dell finally returned to putting the webcam along the top bezel in the new XPS 13.
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A device like this that also used the bezel display we've seen on existing Galaxy devices.
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By adding bezel-reducing curves to the top and bottom edges of the screen, of course.
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The Spectre x2 frames its 12.3-inch screen with bezel space all around, which is alright.
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This isn't the first time Apple has shown interest in creating a bezel-free iPhone, either.
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It's never going to get a super high resolution Retina display or a super thin bezel.
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The bezel remaining at the top of the device hides the 8-megapixel front-facing camera.
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When in an upright position, the arm disappears into the back of the monitor's slim bezel.
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The new X360 has a handsome design with a much smaller bezel than last year's model.
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Judging by a patent published yesterday, however, Apple might be fixing to leave the bezel behind.
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Thankfully, the webcam isn't on the bottom bezel aiming up your nose like on other laptops.
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The phone's not quite bezel-less — there's still a "chin" below the screen — but close enough.
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According SamMobile, the Gear S3 will retain the Gear S2's round display and rotating bezel.
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The forehead bezel across the top represents a change from the Pixel 3XL's notch, pictured below.
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The forehead bezel contains a ton of new sensors to enable face unlock and Motion Sense.
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Its bezel is now a faded gray and the face has turned a warm brownish hue.
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If you covet a bezel-less experience, the Note 10 Plus is the phone for you.
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The two circles on the top bezel could be an iris sensor and front-facing camera.
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As for features, the Active26 brings back Samsung's signature bezel navigation—though in an updated format.
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And with a thin bezel, it's that much easier to focus on the task at hand.
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For the first time, the Versa 2 won't have a neatly inscribed "fitbit" on the bezel.
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It won't take months or weeks for everyone to start demanding bezel-free phones, it'll be instant.
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What I still want to know: what color is the bezel on the other side of it?
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Again, it's not yet clear what kind of imaging units Google might include inside of this bezel.
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Previously, it was believed that this cheaper LCD display would require a 4 to 4.5mm bottom bezel.
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It comes in both gray and white, though the bezel around the display will always be white.
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It's got wireless charging, storage expansion, a gorgeous, almost bezel-free screen, and a truly sumptuous design.
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Yet perhaps the most interesting element of this new wearable is its complete lack of rotating bezel.
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Microsoft hasn't changed the overall design in years, so it feels overdue for a bezel-killing update.
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Oh, and there's a giant "REPUBLIC OF GAMERS" logo on the chunky bezel, which just feels tacky.
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It also lacks a rotating crown or bezel, so all your scrolling has to happen with swipes.
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Once you open the device up, you get an almost-square, almost bezel-free 8-inch screen.
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Samsung Display's principal engineer, Kim Tae-woong, says the company is currently focused on bezel-free displays.
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It's also not strictly true to say that the Pixel 2 XL is a "bezel-less" phone.
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Of course, no notch means there's a sizable "forehead" and "chin" bezel above and below the screens.
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You will also definitely notice the huge bezel around the entire display, which flows into the notch.
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It's a self-winding watch with a diving bezel and two internal rings that show the time.
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Honor is back with the V2400, its newest flagship, which comes with a nearly bezel-free display.
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Unfortunately for Motorola, the side-mount is its only option because of the phone's thinner front bezel.
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The S217 Edge is somewhat different, with both sides of the screen sloping toward its metal bezel.
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That's thanks to a thin-bezel design that results in a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio.
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It's bezel fit making it a bit more modern, which fits in very well with her style.
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Other edge-to-edge LCD phones have a "chin," but the larger bezel evens all that out.
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It is what it is and it looks just fine with as minimal a bezel as possible.
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The Wall Clock features a white bezel — there's no black model — and has a 10-inch diameter.
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But just recently, Honor followed up Samsung's phone with its own punch-hole wielding bezel-less handset.
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Sadly, it was underpowered and had a noticeably large chin to compensate for having no top bezel.
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It's worth noting up front: the Oasis' extended bezel and underside bump take some getting used to.
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It's improved over the first Pebble: it's thinner, with a much smaller bezel and an added microphone.
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Thankfully, the top bezel can be explained away with the addition of a Windows Hello-compatible camera.
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The UX410 also has a slim 6mm bezel and comes with a 14-inch Full HD display.
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Pros: Date display, Indiglo light-up dial, water-resistant up to 50 metersCons: Bezel does not rotate
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To take a reading, you simply place a finger on the bezel for about 20-30 seconds.
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Xiaomi's bezel-less Mi Mix smartphone grabbed a huge amount of attention when it launched last October.
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With this, Apple replaced the fingerprint sensor found on previous models, allowing for the reduced bezel size.
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It has a gold-tone case and bracelet, a blue unidirectional bezel, and a magnified date display.
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You'll get 1080p resolution, a frameless bezel with a thin chassis, HDMI connections, and built-in speakers.
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There's a little bezel on the top and bottom, but the bottom one is a little bigger.
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The bezel-less TV from Samsung is indeed a real product being announced here at CES 2020.
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Samsung may be unveiling a new bezel-less TV at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show next week.
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The screen also ran from bezel to bezel, and though some weren't initial fans of the "notch" at the top, that notch also housed the cameras and sensors that enabled Face ID, which made it even easier to unlock the phone than consumers were used to with Touch ID.
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The entire black bezel can be rotated to control and navigate through various parts of Samsung's Tizen OS.Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)If true, this would be a huge break from previous Samsung smartwatches, which for the past few years have featured a rotating bezel to help users navigate Samsung's Tizen OS. The rotating bezel functions similarly to the crown on an Apple Watch, and can be twisted left or right to select apps, view notifications, and even dismiss alarms or calendar alerts.
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The bezel is fairly sizable, owning, in part, to the light sensor and far field microphones up top.
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The Mi Mix was one of the first phones to come out with nary a bezel at all.
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That crazy bezel-light screen, and that front-facing camera poking out right into the middle of it.
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The two buttons combined with the Gear Sport's rotating bezel are the perfect way to control a smartwatch.
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Style-wise, the Vapor 2 has done away with the frosted glass touch bezel on the original Vapor.
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Razer squeezed not one, but two cameras, into the bezel, as well as a whole mess of microphones.
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Rumors also point to the removal of the spinning physical bezel in favor of a touch version. Etc.
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Expectations call, in particular, for an edge-to-edge screen with no bezel and no physical home button.
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The bezel is a matter of millimeters — Samsung is clearly channeling some innovation from its mobile side here.
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It will evidently have a 6.1-inch LCD, bezel-free screen, Face ID, glass back, and aluminum edges.
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Now you can hem and haw over the last few percentages, but to me, that's bascially bezel-less.
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The pricier the set, the thinner the display, the more attractive the bezel, and the nicer the audio.
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It's one decided downside of this bezel-free future we're all hurdling toward: the camera is an afterthought.
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It has the same largish bezel around the screen, sturdy aluminum back, and magnets to hold smart covers.
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The notch and the bottom bezel won't do much to make it stand out from the crowd, though.
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Blass shared images of the Pixel 2 XL with a black bezel, both with and without a case.
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No notches in sight, and there's scarcely any bezel, just a sliver at the bottom of the phone.
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Like the need for a crown to set the time (with the Freak, you simply turned the bezel).
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Its AMOLED quad-HD display is large and bright, with a nearly 80 percent screen-to-bezel ratio.
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This 13-inch laptop also has Asus' bezel-free display with a 95 percent screen-to-body ratio.
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The phone also lacks water resistance, which was added a year later, and a bezel-free screen design.
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It's a very different design decision than curving the screen to eliminate the bezel entirely, like Samsung does.
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Face ID — the TrueDepth camera system from the iPhone X (and newer) — is hidden in the top bezel.
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But the laptop's worst feature is easily the placement of the webcam on the bezel below the screen.
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The display is vibrant and enjoyable to look at, and the rotating bezel is just fun to use.
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Face ID is of secondary importance to iPhone X purchasers more attracted by the new, bezel-phobic design.
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The phone's unusually long because of the dual 3603-megapixel fisheye lenses connected to the phone's top bezel.
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That could mean a much thinner bezel around the display—a move Dell popularized with the XPS 13.
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Though LG released a similarly bezel-less device earlier this year, it suffered from an excess of simplicity.
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The sizable bezel below the screen is a bit of a no man's land, devoid of all function.
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And if that wasn't enough, the Noa N10 also has a bottom bezel that the iPhone X lacks.
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It also has all of the same internal components as its pricier variants and a bezel-less display.
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Its screen folded into the keyboard to create a tablet, controlled by a few buttons on its bezel.
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Buying a phone is a more complicated decision than just grabbing the one with the thinnest screen bezel.
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And from the press photos, the bezel around the face is nice and narrow, so that's a plus.
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That immersion is somewhat of a Pyrrhic victory, however, because the bottom bezel and logo are ridiculously oversized.
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Other reviewers suggest that this extra bezel space is needed to fit guts in such a thin phone.
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A slimmer design, and a visually minimal bezel around the display, drastically improves the Pebble 2's appearance.
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The very good face unlock system could have been accommodated in a bezel or a notch, for instance.
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Here's detailed diagram made by Google showing all the tech crammed into the Pixel 4's top bezel.
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On previous versions of the XPS 13, it's just been this ugly little mole on the bottom bezel.
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Is Samsung's Galaxy S8 too beautiful for you, with its sleek lines and huge, nearly bezel-less screen?
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Xiaomi's new game-changing bezel-less Mi Mix handset is one that needs to be seen in person.
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That's in addition to upgrades like fitting more data on the screen, rounder edges, and a thinner bezel.
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For some reason, though, there's a huge bezel at the bottom of the display, which is incredibly odd.
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Smartphone makers have been working hard to create the perfect smartphone display: seamless, bezel-less, big, and beautiful.
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The new watch still has a rotating bezel and the now familiar circular UI, but it feels believable.
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But the front of the phone, along with the bottom bezel and capacitive keys, is everything that's borrowed.
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Impressively, with some hardware ingenuity, the G5 can still replace its battery thanks to a removable bottom bezel.
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The digital rotating bezel around the screen is the most interesting upgrade on the Galaxy Watch Active 22.
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Samsung's new Galaxy Watch still lacks the line's best feature Brian Heater misses the mechanical spinning bezel. 6.
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The "Grande Complication" platinum watch has twin rotating tourbillons and a bezel paved with 107 baguette-cut diamonds.
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The Timex Expedition Ranger's brushed stainless steel case and bracelet are contrasted by a black bezel and dial.
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At 5.8 inches, the Xs is a smallish phone, but it's all screen—the bezel is barely there.
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Buttons are great, because I'd rather have that bottom bezel used for something other than just blank space.
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That bezel is made of scratch-resistant black ceramic, and the watch is water-resistant to 1,000 feet.
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Its stainless steel case and bracelet are contrasted by a black dial and a teal and black bezel.
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A larger silver bezel sits on the bottom, and the side of the display has a textured trim.
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For starters, it has a slimmer bezel than before, making it look even more like a premium model.
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Nobody likes a cracked a screen, a dented bezel, a destroyed charging port or a crushed headphone jack.
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The bezel is narrow, a bit more than a quarter inch, a little thicker on the bottom side.
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It certainly makes bezel-laden phones like HTC's U11 and Sony's Xperia series feel desperately unoptimized in their design.
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Other Android phones followed, with makers such as Essential, LG and Huawei releasing their own almost bezel-less phones.
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The screen to body ratio is also pretty low, thanks to some beefy bezel on its top and bottom.
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All the hardware makers are providing high-resolution screens; they're going bezel-less to give you more real estate.
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Another design standout, Sony's 55-inch X930 set has a super-slim bezel and a 653-inch-deep frame.
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Another design standout, Sony's 55-inch X930 set has a super-slim bezel and a 1.4-inch-deep frame.
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With the P30 series, Huawei is removing that odd-looking bezel and integrating the fingerprint sensor in the display.
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The rear camera has been reoriented, and the bezel on the phone will be thinner on the Y-axis.
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While this effectively hides the hole-punch effect, it unfortunately looks as if there's a thicker bezel up top.
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That speaks to the design leadership of OnePlus as well as the corresponding weakness of Google's bezel-tolerant aesthetic.
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This isn't a new idea — Samsung already does this with some front cameras to hide them within the bezel.
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Analysts now believe Samsung will likely unveil a foldable phone once demand for its bezel-less displays slows down.
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It just doesn't have that swanky, no-bezel screen found on the iPhone X. Supposedly that screen killed TouchID.
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Unsurprisingly it had a lot to do with the component Tetris required to fit in a "bezel-less" display.
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The camera is seen as the Essential Phone's weakest feature and the Achilles Heel of the bezel-less device.
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The watch's body is made of stainless steel and the rotating bezel and two side buttons have nice action.
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Of course, a little bezel is require — after all, you're going to need a place to put your hands.
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The watch also has a ceramic bezel, a fairly top-of-the-line feature in an entry-level watch.
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And embedded in the top bezel is a 4993-megapixel FaceTime HD camera capable of recording 2499p HD video.
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The large "forehead" bezel might turn people off, but at least the phones aren't more copycats of Chinese phones.
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It's not placement on the back so much, which was likely necessary to make that beautiful bezel-less front.
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Here look, a bezel:But to Samsung's credit, it is a very impressively small bezel for a TV this size.
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Practically every phone released this year has had some kind of notch or cutout with a bezel-less display.
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The button and plastic rear cover feel a little cheap, and the thick bezel makes it tough to swipe.
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Getting rid of the bezel area and home button will widen the screen, giving users more space and freedom.
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Sharp keeps making smartphones with incredible, almost bezel-free displays, and today it's announcing another one: the Aquos S2373.
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Sometimes, in smartphones of previous years, the bezel would crack first, then leading to a weakness in the glass.
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It's beveled on all four corners and then has a beveled bezel into which is set a sapphire crystal.
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The reality of the S8 is a solid device that furthers the company's valiant quest to vanquish the bezel.
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As for that screen, the thin 2mm bezel around the edge of the device can be simply peeled away.
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The first Mi Mix dazzled with its forward-facing bezel-less display, ultrasound speaker tech, and sleek ceramic body.
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The handset was shown off in all its virtually bezel-free glory at tonight's big press conference in Barcelona.
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The report makes no mention of a 'notch' design that would eliminate most of the top bezel, as well.
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The bezel is apparently the main reason for keeping Tizen around — Wear doesn't support that sort of input method.
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The iPhone XR also has a slightly thicker bezel, or border around its display, compared to the iPhone XS.
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In 230, we saw the LG G230, which was among the first phones with an almost bezel-free display.
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Chinese smartphone maker Oppo unveiled a futuristic new 'waterfall screen' that makes the phone look almost entirely bezel-less.
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The almost bezel-less display has been matched, and rivals are managing to create AI chips to challenge Apple.
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Someone should've said: Look, if we can't do this bezel-less screen thing right, let's not do it all.
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It's expected that Apple will reveal a brand new iPhone with a nearly bezel-free design on the day.
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The watches are defined by a seamless rounded bezel, a spartan dial and a supple, paved solid-gold bracelet.
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Current status: Never shipped Asus' Bezel Free Kit was one of the most interesting gaming gadgets of CES 2018.
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Its bold red chin bezel might not be a great fit for everyone (reader Torontopoly says it's more of a "light copper" and that product shots are deceptive of its true shade,) but AOC's monitor mostly makes up for it by eliminating the rest of the bezel that's wrapped around the display.
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Microsoft almost beat Apple, Samsung, and Google to the punch when it comes to bezel-less, full-screen smartphone displays.
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At that point the race to go full bezel-less would practically be over, and Vivo would be the winner.
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And then there's that rotating bezel, which can be spun in either direction to navigate between notifications, widgets, and apps.
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Over the course of 2017, companies like Apple and Samsung proved that nearly bezel-less phones are now the norm.
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The Watch 214.2 also lacks a rotating bezel or crown, so all of your interaction happens on that tiny screen.
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The LG G6 has a similarly minimal bezel to the S8's, but it feels clumsy and unrefined by comparison.
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In standard Samsung wearables, the bezel around the screen is used as a scroll wheel between apps and within them.
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On the bottom "chin" bezel, you'll find a selfie camera (more on that below) tucked in the bottom right corner.
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Only the 23.8-inch model features the micro-edge display however, with the 27-inch monitor showing thicker bezel edges.
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A crown of multi-colored jewels graces the rotating bezel — 32 sapphires, eight tsavorites, and one diamond, to be exact.
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The OnePlus 7 Pro is a rare exception, bringing a devastatingly handsome, bezel-less display to the sub-$700 market.
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Back in the bulky bezel days, there was one obvious place for manufacturers to put their shiny new fingerprint sensors.
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This time around, Samsung has removed the rotating bezel, one of the primary navigational methods used in last year's watch.
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The iPhone 8 will look similar to our imagining of the iPhone in 2020, with a virtually bezel-less screen.
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This patent doesn't prove anything, but it provides another hint that killing the bezel is very much on Apple's mind.
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Update January 8th, 11:15AM ET: Added comment from Asus confirming the Bezel-free Kit works with non-Asus monitors.
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The L2 is the GMT model, which tracks a second timezone by adding an inner rotating bezel with hour markings.
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The 7X was announced back in December and designed to offer a modern, reduced-bezel design at more budget prices.
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The Pixel 4 isn't going to go in for all that: it's just going to unapologetically have a top bezel.
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But even those will become more and more rare as they also get bezel-less and edge-to-edge displays.
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That design will purportedly have an all-glass enclosure and bezel-free edge-to-edge glass (maybe with OLED screens).
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But it's definitely distinctive, and it's an interesting workaround to incorporating a front-facing camera into a bezel-less display.
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As smartphone design evolves, however, its chunky bottom bezel—where the home button lives—is starting to look mighty antiquated.
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The combination of near-bezel-less design and top-notch specs makes it arguably the most desirable flagship right now.
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It doesn't appear to be the Galaxy S8, which has a more rounded edge on its super-slim top bezel.
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The front has been updated so the display is no longer recessed below the bezel, leaving a totally smooth face.
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A few years ago I reviewed the Sharp Aquos Crystal, which had the same bezel-free design on three sides.
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The new watch isn't "edge to edge" as some early leaks put it, but the bezel size has shrunk considerably.
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According to their site, this is the first watch with a bezel and dial made from a proprietary cement blend.
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Included among the patents were designs for a mobile device screen with bending edges, which would replace the device's bezel.
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Gear S2 users will be able to access iHeartRadio Live and Custom radio stations simply by rotating the watch bezel.
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Laptop webcams are traditionally across the top bezel, but the Matebook X Pro's bezels are literally too thin for that.
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Kuo doesn't mention a curved display or a new form factor, like a bezel-less design, which was previously rumored.
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It highlighted and set off the black glass of the screen and bezel, producing a specular outline from any angle.
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It has a slight curve to it, like the first Gear Fit, but lacks the weird bezel of its predecessor.
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If motion detectors were embedded into the screen, it would reduce the need for room in the bezel for sensors.
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With just the tap of a button and a twist of the bezel, you'll dive right into the watch's apps.
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Before Apple integrated its iSight cameras into iMacs, older computers had a hidden magnet centered on top of the bezel.
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The Pixel 4 will have a large "forehead" — or top bezel — where a stack of technology and sensors will sit.
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The 2018 12.9-inch Pro is also smaller than the original 12.9-inch Pro model, thanks to the slim bezel.
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"I embarrassed myself attaching a display to the computer bezel with a screwdriver," Mr. Gassée recalled in a recent interview.
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A bezel insert is the featherweight aluminum disk with numbers on it that surrounds the dial of a diver's watch.
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Both of the cheaper iPhones have bezels — the border surrounding the display — whereas the iPhone X has eliminated the bezel.
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This is supposed to help with cooling and also, conveniently, hides a good chunk of the display's large bottom bezel.
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All those rumors about Samsung's new TV have officially been confirmed and, yes, the company's latest flagship is bezel-less.
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Kotb's ring features what looks like a massive radiant-cut bezel-set stone, surrounded by a halo of pavé sapphires.
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The Pro X I've been reviewing has a thumb-sized crack in the glass on the right-hand side bezel.
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The bezel is smaller than past models, taking up just a tiny bit of the top and bottom of the device.
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By 211, hipsters will probably start using "fat bezel" phones as a symbol of their rejection of the ultra-modern society.
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This thing isn't the thinnest TV ever made, but strong angles, and a tiny bezel make it feel prettier than competitors.
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It comes in 41mm and 43mm, and the only noticeable difference is the bezel on the 23mm watch is slightly larger.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)READMEA genuinely stylish smartwatch, but ditching the original Vapor's touch bezel means it loses any distinctive style.
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The bezel is backed by a pair of wide, rubberized buttons (despite the classic look, there's no crown on this smartwatch).
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In front, both phones features what are practically bezel-less screens with only the tiniest of outlines running along their edges.
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The clashing black plastic bezel around the display just adds to that feeling that you're looking at a (relatively!) cheap laptop.
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The company launched the Mi Mix 2, a beautiful, nearly bezel-less device with pretty crazy specs and a moderate price.
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The display measures 6.4 inches on the diagonal, but the bezel-free design should make it feel like a smaller phone.
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Samsung initially showed off a bezel-less OLED phone prototype in 2013, before unveiling the Galaxy Note Edge a year later.
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Having used the Apple Watch's digital crown and the rotating bezel on Samsung's Gear S series, I have to respectfully disagree.
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Nevertheless, it's still an interesting concept and it adds to the growing diversity of mechanical solutions to the eternal bezel problem.
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In the top bezel area of the Pixel 4, Google has housed a number of sensors that enable two new features.
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It looks like Sony is avoiding both the bezel-less and dual camera trends that most other manufacturers are moving to.
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The biggest change from prior Samsung watches is the lack of a rotating bezel, which is a bit of a bummer.
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It's a model of minimalist efficiency that includes an extra-thin bezel and a display that swivels back to 180-degrees.
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The next iPhone is rumored to have a bezel-less screen not unlike the Samsung Galaxy S8 and an OLED display.
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There are also patent disputes covering everything from the bezel of the iPhone to the chevron found on a cheerleader's uniform.
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And there's something for everyone: A regular Xperia X, the side bezel-free Xperia XA and speed-boosted Xperia X Performance.
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With an all-glass back and huge bezel-less screen, the iPhone X is practically begging to be dropped and shattered.
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And since the screen is already quite small, the bezel gets in the way when you swipe on the watch's face.
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Indeed, Samsung touts its new 88-inch KS9500 SUHD TV flagship as the world's first bezel-less television, which—spoiler alert!
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ZTE also released a foldable phone last October, but there's a huge bezel between the two screens, so we were underwhelmed.
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Huawei proudly proclaims the Mate 20 has only a 8493mm side bezel, and its screen notch is just 8.9mm in width.
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The solar cell ring is housed inside the watch's bezel, which Matrix says can store power from indoor or outdoor light.
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Users touch both sides of the bezel to take a measurement, and the watch will vibrate when it has a reading.
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Apple is using codenames for both its face recognition feature and the bezel-less phone, called "Pearl ID" and "D22" respectively.
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We've also heard rumors of Apple going with a bezel-less design for its higher-end tablet, so it makes sense.
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Well, they bring us closer to the dream of a truly bezel-less phone, and they do it in dramatic style.
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It just highlights the fact there seems to have been plenty of room for the rotating bezel that could have been.
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At first glance, it's a handsome 24-hour analog watch with a black resin bezel and dial, and black leather strap.
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Since the phone has no upper bezel, Xiaomi had to remove long-standing smartphone components like the earpiece and proximity sensor.
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The hinge would allow the two screens, when lined up, to make up a single display with no bezel in between.
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The mirror wakes up suddenly, one glowing blue-white circle appearing like the eye of Sauron on its thick black bezel.
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Besides the size, one of the biggest changes with the Galaxy Watch Active is that it doesn't have a rotating bezel.
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But unlike Samsung's Galaxy Watch or previous Gear smartwatches, the new one doesn't appear to have the company's signature rotatable bezel.
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The white bezel doesn't really match this copper color Nothing compares to seeing a genuine fake iPhone 8 in the flesh.
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Of course, from the front, the thing is pretty much all screen, with a proportionally small black bezel on all sides.
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If you take a closer look at the Duchess' necklace, you'll see it's detailed with three round turquoise bezel-set drops.
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Like many an iPhone before it, the new iPad Pro ditches the home button in favor of a much slimmer bezel.
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Lenovo's new Yoga 215.5, the successor to last year's Yoga 2910, includes a "near edgeless display" that's just 9103mm of bezel.
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So when you give it a white bezel, the white plastic shows it up and makes it look even more grey.
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There's no ugly chin like you'd see on a Dell XPS 13, either — the bottom bezel is as thin as possible.
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Several other technologies have been introduced over the past few years to enable so-called "bezel-less" designs on modern phones.
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It's obvious from the "oohs" that the new Daytona, with a techy Cerachrom (ceramic) bezel, is going to be a hit.
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The Mate 10 Pro is nearly bezel-less, with a design reminiscent to Samsung's new Note 8 or the LG V183.
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Diamonds spell out the Italian brand's logo across the openwork dial, and baguette-cut emeralds are set invisibly on the bezel.
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Additionally, a pink gold, 0.633-millimeter Offshore Chronograph features a rainbow bezel of baguette-cut sapphires, set on a rubber strap.
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As a result, the bezel doesn't have features like the metal parts protecting the operating buttons that were on previous models.
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Samsung added a touch-sensitive bezel to the ring around the screen, which makes navigating its Tizen operating system much easier.
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Aside from the new "digital" bezel, as Samsung calls it, the Active 2's design is very similar to its predecessor.
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Visually, at least from the front, the new iPad Pro looks the same with the uniform, slim bezel around the screen.
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Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
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One other note on cameras: the Pixel 203 XL's extremely busy front bezel no longer includes a wide-angle selfie camera.
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I've always disliked seeing the bezel division between two connected displays and now it's not a problem on Samsung's big screen.
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Oddly, the company has opted to move away from the rotating mechanical bezel with the Active line, which has long been Samsung's key differentiator in the category — perhaps in the spirit of maintaining that kind of minimalism, the rotating mechanical bezel is, simply put, the best way I've come across for interfacing with smartwatches, including Apple's crown.
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You may not need the bezel-less OLED display, facial recognition tech, or dual-12 megapixel camera over what you have now.
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We've already seen other laptop makers shrink bezel sizes to the very limits of what's possible, far beyond even Apple's slimmest borders.
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Presumably, this would allow Apple to expand the iPhone screen and introduce a bezel-free design, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S8.
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The bezel-free design would leave no room for a physical Home button, which has always been where the TouchID sensor lived.
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You've got options: iPhone X — Enjoy a nearly bezel-less screen, face ID, hands-free Siri, portrait mode, and up to 7893GB.
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To turn it into a VR headset, it's up to you to 3D print the bezel that fits display onto your face.
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Some of the the magic will happen by trimming the bezel on each watch to increase viewable area on the watch face.
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Such a design could also serve as a glimpse at the iPhone 8, which is also rumored to have bezel-free screens.
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True black would be the shade of black found on the bezel, versus the dark gray that renders on the Switch's display.
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The bigger details are the True Depth sensor hidden in the bezel, and the A12X Bionic CPU packed in under the display.
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It confirms a new look with a slimmer bezel, the death of the Home button, and a powerful new face-recognition feature.
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This "Lunar Ring" uses separate LEDs for the half that's inside the bezel and the OLED screen itself for the other half.
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The Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch display crammed into what feels like a normal-sized phone, with a barely-there bezel.
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It could be another decade before the bezel is extinct and we're literally just holding a sheet of glass in our hand.
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Everyone's moving to longer bezel-less and edge-to-edge displays, but Razer's sticking with the tried and true 16:9 rectangle.
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Nothing about the new head-on image gives any further clues about how Samsung might replace its traditional rotating-bezel UI, however.
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There's an unobtrusive waterdrop notch in the display, along with a bottom bezel that's only very slightly larger than the other three.
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After releasing a phone with a hilariously huge notch last year, Google is going back to a notchless, big top bezel design.
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That display is surrounded by a small bezel to protect it from scratches, and it sits atop a blessedly thin 10mm body.
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On a brighter note, this phone is also said to feature a nearly bezel-free display that has a 90Hz refresh rate.
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With no space on the thin bottom bezel to house a fingerprint sensor/home button, Samsung really didn't have many options left.
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Apple's rumored bezel-less iPhone could be made possible with an OLED screen full of holes, according to a patent granted today.
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TechCrunch reports that the information reveals the iPhone 8 will have a bezel-less design as well as an infrared face scanner.
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This is ideal compared to bezel-less displays that shove camera sensors below the screen, resulting in unflattering angles on video calls.
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The front of the screen is around two-fifths bezel, leaving room for a 25-inch display with an awkward aspect ratio.
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Alternatively, Speck is also selling a clear iPhone XR case for $40, but its cases offer more protection with raised bezel guards.
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Samsung has all but murdered the bezel and it looks greatAspect ratios seem to be the rage this year for smartphone companies.
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The Move ECG features three electrodes to take measurements: two inside the back of the watch and a third in the bezel.
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To shave the bezels down, Huawei had to move the webcam (normally on top or bottom bezel) somewhere else: into the keyboard.
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Yet I'd gladly sacrifice a millimeter (or even two!) for a better screen-to-bezel ratio, or a real physical home button.
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The Samsung logo on the top bezel is gone, meaning that the tablet could potentially have space for a rumored iris scanner.
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The screens are over 30 percent larger than the Series 3 and sport curved corners that blend more seamlessly with the bezel.
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The crystal is made from hardened mineral glass and is somewhat recessed and protected by the bezel helping it remain scratch-free.
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Last year's 10th anniversary iPhone event found the company intent on pushing the state of the art on iPhone (and bezel) technology.
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The bezel surrounding the display is on the large and plasticky side, both of which stand out on the bright white model.
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Unfortunately, the screen doesn't go all the way to the bottom; there's a bezel down there that hosts the oval fingerprint scanner.
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The picture appears with lifelike contrast with Dolby Vision HDR inside a bezel-less design, meaning you get the most screen possible.
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Luckily, it's a pretty loud, decent speaker (a charitable person might say that's why the bezel on the bottom is so large).
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It's a perfectly stylish round smartwatch that comes with a bunch of different color options both for its bezel and its bands.
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Samsung has already shown in its MicroLED television "The Wall" that the technology can be used to create a bezel-less experience.
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By slimming down the bezel, they're able to cram an 11″ screen into the same body that previously fit a 10.5″ screen.
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The video aligns with much of Google's own Pixel 4 teases, including its large top "forehead" bezel and the camera system's design.
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The large top bezel aligns with Google's own teasers, where the Pixel 4's advanced radar-based "Soli" sensors will be mounted.
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The company has extended the screen's top protective layer, which some reviewers had mistaken for a screen protector, beyond the phone's bezel.
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So far, the rumor mill says the Pixel 4 will:Have a large "forehead" bezel for the Pixel 4's "Soli" radar technology.
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The reMarkable, on the other hand, is smaller (about 10″x7″) and a triplet of buttons on its lower bezel invite interaction.
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This year, Parmigiani Fleurier — long known as a traditional haute horlogerie house — introduced a rainbow bezel on its classic Tonda 1950 design.
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The display has been upgraded from LCD to AMOLED, though it's still surrounded by a pretty massive black bezel on all sides.
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Omega has also utilized an aluminum dial done in an aged "tropical" brown that matches the bezel ring found on the watch.
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So imagine the delight when TAG Heuer updated the coveted 1962 racing chronograph, featuring a reverse panda dial and brawny black bezel.
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The Wi-Fi-enabled timepiece, with a rotating black- and white-diamond bezel and sharkskin strap, came with a host of applications.
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Its screen's curved edges seem to melt into the aluminum case, and the bezel is so thin as to be almost invisible.
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As it turns out, we need not have worried, because even tiny, neophyte Chinese companies are getting in on the bezel-killing business.
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Lenovo is teasing the bezel-less Z5 for June, and the Pixel 3 might be following with a similar design in the fall.
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Whether Samsung likes it or not, September 28th will be the date when the majority of people first learn about bezel-less screens.
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He also says that there will be no notch in the screen, rather a large bezel with five different "imaging units" inside it.
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And even better, the company has nearly eliminated the phone's bottom chin, with an even smaller sliver of bezel than the S10 has.
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It is also reportedly making the space between the screen's protective layer and its bezel smaller to prevent debris from penetrating the device.
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This in-car tablet had a tougher coating and less intrusive bezel; that radar gun had a clearer display and a faster processor.
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This is a pretty thick smartwatch That design, by the way, maintains one of the Gear S2's best features: the rotating bezel.
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I'm also not a fan of the thick bezel around the screen; it makes the screen look even smaller than it really is.
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I noticed the new bezel-less curved TV, but we did not see a reappearance of the bendable TV. What happened to that?
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It looks... the same, so don't expect to see Moto follow LG and Samsung in shrinking down that top bezel and bottom chin.
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The G6's standout feature is about to be matched (or possibly exceeded) by the Galaxy S8 and Samsung's version of bezel minimalism.
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Aside from nearly non-existent bezels on the sides and a truly small bezel on the bottom, the NEX's front is just screen.
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We're so close — only a week left until we get all the S8 details and a chance to check out that skinny bezel.
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It has a tiny 11.6-inch screen, a huge bezel, a tiny trackpad, a cramped-looking keyboard, and a whole lot of plastic.
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And earlier this month, Chopard introduced its Alpine Eagle, another stainless steel watch with visible screws on the bezel and an integrated bracelet.
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Like the original Mi Mix, the phone's display stretches to the edges on three sides, with a single narrow bezel below the screen.
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This appears to be a mechanism for controlling the watch function by swiping on its bezel (in addition to swiping on its touchscreen).
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The bottom bezel is still pretty big, though at least that gives you a convenient place for the home button and fingerprint reader.
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When it's folded, you have one 6.6-inch, notch-free, and bezel-starved main display combined with an elongated 6.4-inch rear display.
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The general consensus is that the iPhone 8 will feature a new design with an OLED display and a nearly bezel-free look.
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And even the practically bezel-less laptop trend that was sweeping the industry last year has already become standard across most mainstream machines.
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And if you've ever used a Gear S2 or S3, you'll know just how satisfying controlling Tizen OS with the rotatable bezel is.
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And the phone will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor and a tiny notch at the top of its bezel-less display.
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On the XPS 13, the webcam was mounted to the bottom bezel and on the MateBook X Pro, it's hidden in the keyboard.
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Here's a silly example of that: I read in bed and the Voyage has a larger bezel on the bottom than the Oasis.
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They did, in order to make this kind of bezel-less phone happen, is they got rid of a physical home button. Correct.
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Unlike the second-gen iPhone X and iPhone X Plus, this new iPhone could feature a slightly bigger bezel and an LCD display.
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It's eschewed any kind of buttons on the bezel, which means if your fingers are greasy then your e-ink display is greasy.
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I would constantly tap the back button accidentally — especially on Samsung devices, where it was a touch-sensitive area of the bottom bezel.
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From stereo speakers to a bezel-less screen that's possibly the best of any mobile device, there's not much that Samsung didn't cover.
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As you'd expect from a Chinese flagship phone in 2019, the Reno is a near-as-dammit bezel-less device without a notch.
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Then, in "The Bezel Wars," our hosts discuss the Surface Go, iPad rumors, and the Windows 246 S life Dieter has been living.
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Meanwhile, gaming laptop displays have evolved to use higher refresh rates, 2100 percent sRGB and Adobe RGB compliance, and have bezel-less displays.
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The QTM052 is designed to be small enough that device manufacturers will be able to embed it into the bezel of a phone.
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The 5.7-inch smartphone has a dual-edged curved display, bringing the virtually bezel-free curvature to the line for the first time.
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Samsung Galaxy S8All images: GizmodoIn a year when going bezel-less was the hottest smartphone trend around, Samsung's Galaxy S8 did it best.
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Additionally, you can use the rotatable bezel to control PowerPoints for things like advancing slides and timing how long you spend per slide.
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Sure, the bottom "chin" bezel is still hella thick, but the overall Note 29 footprint is more compact because of the narrower bezels.
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It was big – in the sense of being physically large, due in part to the inclusion of a camera in the bezel/strap.
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It might take a little getting used to if you're used to the rotating bezel UI, but I didn't find it very complicated.
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The Gear S3 will likely stick with its round display and rotatable bezel, which is used for navigating around the Tizen operating system.
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Dell's 13-inch XPS 13 has a wonderfully minimal bezel around the display, a great keyboard, good trackpad, solid construction, and attractive design.
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The very thin bezel and the classic, retro-style lugs lend to this effect, as does the relatively thin 17mm Horween leather band.
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That's because it does not use a notch, bezel, or hole-punch cutout to house its front-facing camera and facial recognition sensors.
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I didn't hide my disappointment very well when I saw that Samsung had killed the mechanical spinning bezel for the original Watch Active.
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Several reports have suggested the company's iPhone 8 will also have a bezel-less design, featuring a front panel that's almost all screen.
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The display is slightly smaller than the Surface Pro's, with more unsightly black bezel around the edge, but it's also higher resolution (2880x1920).
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It's nicer-looking, works faster, and personally, I like that the logo name is no longer slapped onto the bezel below the display.
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The home button is gone from this bezel-free phone, and can be awakened with an arbitrary tap or by raising the phone.
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Apple managed to squeeze a larger screen onto a smaller body by eliminating the iPhone's bezel, which is the border surrounding the display.
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A prominent bezel on a watch that otherwise looks like an Apple device marks this as a pretender to the Apple Watch's throne.
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The watch emits a click-like haptic buzz as you move your finger over the bezel, simulating the clicks of the physical wheel.
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Fashioned from a wafer-thin slice of polished Arizona turquoise, its numerals and bezel are studded with more than 100 brilliant-cut diamonds.
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The touch bezel interface felt intuitive when we reviewed the Galaxy Watch Active 2, so hopefully it will translate well to its predecessor.
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This pair comes in 14-karat yellow, rose, or white gold, and has a simple bezel setting to show off the sparkling diamonds.
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Well, just like on the 2-in-2.93 version of the XPS 13, that massive lower bezel is a thing of the past.
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I tried to peel it off multiple times and failed, as it's beyond the bezel and impossible to get your fingernails close to.
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Also notable here is the oversized top bezel, presumably so that Google can fit in the Project Soli-powered "Motion Sense" radar sensors.
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That's largely because Samsung reduced the bezel around the screen to a mere 53 mm, making it look like it's purely all screen.
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I've been extremely complimentary of Samsung's TouchWiz changes in 2017, and I also love the ergonomics of the almost bezel-less Galaxy S8 Plus.
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On those watches, the rotating bezel is an analog tool used to set or adjust time markers, or keep track of additional time zones.
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Image: Apple / GizmodoIf you had any doubts about Apple releasing a bezel-free iPhone in September, you can probably throw those out the window.
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On the Galaxy Watch and past Samsung smartwatches, the bezel rotates and acts as a control ring to navigate around the Tizen OS interface.
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It's a huge waste of space, and despite what you may think, the bezel that runs down the middle never gets easier to ignore.
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It looks good for a phone in this price range, but a phone this tall actually needs a bottom bezel to balance it out.
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Even so, they provide a good look at the shape of the front, which is still littered with sensor/camera holes on the bezel.
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WinFuture also reports that the both devices will come with an in-display fingerprint sensor to avoid incorporating a chin bezel into the screen.
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Its solution to the problem of where to put the selfie camera on a bezel-less phone is… not to have one at all.
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Samsung's not the first company to push for a bezel-less phone, but it's now one of the highest profile to make an attempt.
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While the displays are larger, the actual dimensions of the phones aren't much different — largely because there's now hardly any bezel to be seen.
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Indeed, a lot of progress has been made on this front in recent generations, between thinner bodies and the rapid extinction of the bezel.
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Hence, the 5.99-inch AMOLED display, which, notably for a 2019 smartphone, has a Galaxy S9 chin and top bezel instead of a notch.
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So I flipped on the notch hiding option and got a reasonably sized top bezel that happened to display my notifications and status icons.
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These new Crystal Sound TVs embed a sound system directly into the display panel, using the bezel of the television as a speaker casing.
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While I prefer more screen and less bezel, the thickness of the borders around the screens don't diminish the quality of the displays themselves.
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Apple's killed the 9.7-inch iPad, but announced a new 10.5-inch iPad, that will have the same footprint with a lot less bezel.
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In its place is the new iPhone XS, a slightly superior version of the bezel-less smartphone Apple first released for $999 last year.
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The XR has the same A12 Bionic processor, the same front-facing camera with Face ID and Animoji, and the same bezel-less design.
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The top bezel is typically where the webcam goes, and if you kill that, you have to find somewhere else to stick the camera.
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The display is now a color 1.39-inch OLED panel with a DLC (diamond-like carbon) coating on the glass and a ceramic bezel.
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The ring itself fits perfectly with Williams' stylish but understated aesthetic; it's a large, heart-shaped diamond bezel-set onto a yellow-gold band.
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Further enabling your one-handed reading adventures are the physical page turn buttons that are easily accessible to your thumb on the front bezel.
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There will always be a tiny bezel for the selfie camera, but there's no reason to keep those thick bezels in your current phone.
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The Reno's bezel-less design is completed by a 6993-megapixel pop-up selfie camera that's by far the weirdest one I've seen yet.
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Developers including Steve Troughton-Smith and Guilherme Rambo have been tweeting their findings, notably the discovery of the new iPhone's bezel-less screen design.
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Mac Otakara thinks that the Cupertino dynamos are gearing up to release some fancy new iPad Pros, including a bezel-less 10.5 inch model.
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As Xiaomi's Hugo Barra noted in today's announcement, it's essentially invisible when you look at it from the side and has virtually no bezel.
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The reduction of the bezel was less of an aesthetic decision and more about cramming more information into the Watch's relatively limited real estate.
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The bezel is minimal once again, and the Chinese phone maker claims to have trimmed the lower border down by a significant 12 percent.
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In the Apple case, those designs are the rounded rectangle casing of the phone, a grid of icons on the screen and a bezel.
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This is the bezel that holds the cameras — one 20 MP telephoto and a 16 MP wide-angle camera — but it's just impossibly ugly.
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Dell only offers a full HD screen on this model, which comes with a much thicker bezel and a more rounded, less refined look.
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There's also Bluetooth and NFC, as well as a dual webcam with noise-cancelling microphones is also built-in to the bezel for teleconferences.
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Getting rid of the rotatable bezel means the touching and tapping the Galaxy Watch Active is the only way to interact with the smartwatch.
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Xiaomi has announced the newest version of its bezel-less Mi Mix family, and it doesn't sport a notch like its Mi 8 flagship.
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Housed in that sliver of bezel is an infrared camera, flood illuminator, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, speaker, microphone, front camera, and dot projector.
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There's also 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a bezel-reducing design, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and the latest version of Android 8.1 Oreo.
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It's only when you look at the side of the phone that you can see where the screen ends and where the bezel begins.
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It also has an ultra-thin bezel and a USB Type-C port that you can use to transmit data or charge another device.
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Diamond Bezel Necklace, available on AUrate, $320A diamond necklace doesn't have to be thousands of dollars, as fine jewelry startups like AUrate are proving.
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If you plan to use your the bezel for measuring diving times, regatta races, or alternate time zones, this isn't the watch for you.
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It's worth noting that unidirectional bezels rotate in one direction strictly for safety and shouldn't be thought of as inferior to a bidirectional bezel.
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The X brings a virtually bezel-free display to the iPhone line, along with a beefed up camera that includes dual-optical image stabilization.
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The menus are logically organized and the physical switches on the bezel of the screen work well as shortcuts for the on-screen features.
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The greatest crime Samsung committed with the first Galaxy Watch Active was removing the rotating bezel that had been its smartwatch trademark for years.
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The Fossil Carlyle looks like a typical Wear OS smartwatch, which means that it has a round OLED screen with a fairly large bezel.
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If you couldn't already tell that this is a golf-specific watch, the words "Golf Edition" etched along the bezel might tip you off.
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The hardware hasn't changed too much from what we saw before, beyond the addition of a Windows Hello-compatible camera on an inside bezel.
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The front of the phone shows a thin bezel around the display and a small cutout at the top for the front-facing camera.
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The 10-inch Portal that launched a year ago now has a sleeker, minimal bezel look with a price drop (from $199 to $179).
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That's just the NanoEdge bezel making it look easy, giving you more screen in less space for more important stuff like gaming and movies.
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The 13.3-inch screen does go nearly edge-to-edge on the top, left, and right, but there's a large-ish bezel on the bottom.
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Those of us in the know have grown blasé about bezel-less screens, while most people just aren't yet aware of what's coming from Apple.
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When it comes to bezel-free screens and more expensive smartphones, you could argue that those trends would have materialized with or without Apple's participation.
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Unlike nearly every other flagship ultraportable, the MateBook X Pro doesn't have a chin—that big ugly bottom bezel where things like the webcam goes.
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Other schematics we've seen from more reliable leakers have featured true edge-to-edge, bezel-free displays, with a "function area" built into the screen.
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But now, just as quickly as notch went mainstream, its demise is already in sight thanks to the first generation of truly bezel-less devices.
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Either way, the bezel—the band of material that separates your phone's screen from its body—has all but disappeared in the past few years.
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With the new larger size, the old 14-inch display has been swapped for a more standard 15.6-inch display with a slim 4.9mm bezel.
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Like the Gear S3, the Gear Sport features a circular AMOLED screen with a rotating bezel and two side-mounted buttons for Back and Home.
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This time, however, the design of the TVs – including a so-called "bezel-less" model — might be more interesting than incremental technology bumps within them.
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And that's to say nothing of almost anonymous brands like Doogee and Maze, both of which are now touting phones with almost bezel-less displays.
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A photo posted to Weibo (and republished by Slashleaks) shows a screen with a slim bezel running around it and no notch to be seen.
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Google came up with its own face unlock system for the Pixel 4 and 4 XL using those advanced sensors in the phone's top bezel.
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Stunning design aside, the Mi Mix 2 has a bezel-less edge-to-edge screen that sucks you in the second you power it on.
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Among the three new iPhone models will be one that features a bezel-less edge-to-edge OLED screen, and will unlock using facial recognition.
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One of the Galaxy Watch Active's major flaws is that it lacks the rotating bezel that made previous Galaxy Watch models a joy to use.
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To make matters worse, the software forced users to swirl their fingers around the perimeter of the display, as if to mimic the rotating bezel.
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Google should have copied the Surface Pro and made it so the keyboard can snap to Slate's bottom bezel, which would better connect the two.
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The thin, wide and mostly aluminum AirBar ($99) is designed to fit on the MacBook Air's roughly 1-inch deep bezel, just below the screen.
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It comes with tiny magnets that you affix to the bezel and that match up perfectly with the magnets on the back of the AirBar.
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Doogee isn't the first Chinese tech company to wave goodbye to the bezel, with a number of firms releasing cheap-ish phones with impressive displays.
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"Because the bezel-free display currently sells well, we still have enough time to develop foldable display," said Kim at a Display TechSalon event recently.
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Using the bezel control is fast, logical, and the best interface on a round smartwatch I've ever seen, and makes a mockery of Android Wear.
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The best part of the Galaxy Watch is its rotating bezel, which is a very natural and simple way to glide through the software interface.
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The Honor 221X has an edge-to-edge, bezel-less screen design and the FullView Display makes streaming movies and playing games a quality experience.
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The most enduring iPhone rumors suggest that Apple is coming for the bezel, and the new iPad might just be a precursor to that massacre.
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There is a tiny bezel that surrounds the screen, but the Mix 4 still has an impressive screen-to-body ratio of approximately 97 percent.
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The major difference between last year's Product RED iPhone and this one is that Apple has wisely gone with a black bezel on the front.
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Smartphone companies have been taking some liberties with displays – Samsung bends the edges ever so slightly to minimize bezel on the Galaxy S8, for instance.
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The forthcoming device also sports three rear-facing cameras, a U-shaped hole-punch bezel and what appears to be an in-display fingerprint reader.
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The report also said the new OLED iPhone might feature a "bezel-less" front design and the home button will be integrated into the display.
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The Note 8 is slightly larger than the S8 Plus, which was 6.2 inches, but it includes the same bezel-less design with square corners.
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The design is a little fatter than last year's Nexus 6P, and the bezel on the bottom lip of the phone is much bigger. Yuck.
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At this point, I think most people expect their entertainment-oriented phone to be virtually bezel-less, but for a midrange device, this is acceptable.
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Both phones have selfie cams that sit on a central notch that dips into their screens, big, mostly bezel-less displays, and smooth rounded backs.
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The phone's expected to be available in black, gold, or silver, the latter of which will be available with a black or white front bezel.
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These panels should allow Apple to offer a bezel-less design, with most of the front of the phone dominated by the brilliant new screen.
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The concept smartphone from Xiaomi and colorful French designer Philippe Starck, revealed on Tuesday, has won praise for its minimalist form and bezel-less screen.
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It doesn't have wireless charging in the base, but it gets some small upgrades: four USB 3.0 ports, better color reproduction, and a smaller bezel.
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It has a large bezel-less display, impressive dual cameras, powerful performance, all day battery life, and S Pen stylus features that are actually useful.
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As you can see in the top photo, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is going to have a slimmer bezel around the display and keyboard.
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The good news is there will be a lot more screen real estate jammed into a smaller form factor, including a virtually bezel-free design.
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The home button and earpiece are yellow, the power button is red, the volume rocker is green, and there's a blue bezel around the camera.
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The screen change makes the bottom bezel stick out like a sore thumb now, and it's disappointing Lenovo didn't try to match Dell's slimmer bezels.
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For starters, Samsung is skipping the notch altogether, jumping straight from skinny top bezel to pinhole cutout — what the company called its "Infinity O" display.
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This smartphone is a big improvement on Samsung's previous model with a new edge-to-edge immersive 5.8-inch screen and near bezel-free display.
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Similar to the other phones on this list, the Nokia 7.1 also features a nearly bezel-free design that's become common on today's pricier smartphones.
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The bezel rivets – with numerals at noon, three, six, and nine – are reminiscent of another Italian brand, Panerai, but they're supposed to represent porthole rivets.
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The Active relied solely on its touchscreen for navigation, even though the software was all designed around the watch having a rotating bezel for control.
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Our reviewers liked the new one, but unless you're desperate for the bigger size and the digital bezel, it's probably not worth the price hike.
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"The TCS3701 enables phone designers to take this trend to a new level, potentially eliminating the bezel entirely," AMS said, using the new device's name.
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The taller screen has also eliminated the area where Dell would stamp its logo in the bottom bezel, which I'm sure zero people will miss.
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And in that time, did the iPhone's top bezel, which again contains many important sensors, the FaceTime camera, and earpiece, shrink in any noticeable way?
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By adding the taller display, Dell has also completely cut out the bottom bezel to make the new XPS 13 look better than ever, too.
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Apple is clearly racing toward a bezel-less front, and in the above image the screen seems to extend all the way up the phone.
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The three products are: Samsung's Gear Sport has a 1.2-inch circular touchscreen, rotating bezel to cycle through options, and comes in blue and black.
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On Tuesday, German website 4KFilme says it has its hands on a pair of leaked renders showing the screen in all its bezel-less glory.
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Hot on the heels of Honor teasing the Magic 2 — a bezel-less flagship smartphone with a hidden sliding camera similar to the Oppo Find X — Xiaomi president Lin Bin posted the first official image of the company's own upcoming Mi Mix 3, which is also a bezel-less flagship smartphone with a hidden sliding camera similar to the Oppo Find X (via GSMArena).
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Bixby was also positioned as perhaps the second most important addition to the Galaxy line during the unveiling, behind only the S8's bezel-less display.
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Nope, because there's a giant bezel that runs down the middle, and its square aspect ratio makes for a lot of wasted space while watching videos.
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The Galaxy (nee Gear)'s spinning bezel is still my favorite method for interacting with smartwatch menus (and the top reason to consider a Samsung model).
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Normally, I don't care about notches—they are simply an interim method for creating extra screen real estate while we wait for full bezel-less devices.
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That said, out of all the phones that came out this year, it was Samsung's Galaxy S2100 that did the whole tiny bezel thing the best.
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It's powerful, it's sleek, it has the best display, and more than any other phone this year, the Galaxy S8 did the bezel-less trend right.
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While other laptop and phone makers have gone to extreme lengths to shrink the bezel, the Surface Go has a big fat one that feels quaint.
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Instead of going for a notch or hole-punch camera, Sony's phones utilize a thick bezel up top to house the selfie camera and ear speaker.
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The 9 Pro's HD (720p) webcam is located where it should be, in the top bezel above the screen, and it's perfectly adequate for video chatting.
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While the advantages of hiding a phone's front-facing cameras are obvious (less bezel), hiding its rear cameras benefits the phone's design more than its functionality.
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On the Galaxy Watch Active, Samsung removed the rotatable bezel found on its Galaxy Watch and Gear-branded smartwatches to achieve a smaller overall device volume.
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Google might spend the most time on Tuesday discussing the sensors hidden in the top bezel of the Pixel — which, by the way, has no notch.
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I don't mind the look, but it does mean the front of the phone is asymmetrical: the top, bottom, and sides all have different bezel widths.
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Certainly there must be some bezel, most likely at the bottom of the phone, as even the Mi Mix leaves a black strip at its bottom.
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Perhaps the most notable addition is a clip-on accessory that adds a 360 degree camera for people who want more 'environmental bezel' with their selfies.
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This TCL display comes with its own quad pedestal stand for easy setup, but the TV's super thin bezel lends it well to wall mounting, too.
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With its octagonal bezel, exposed mounting screws and razor-sharp lines, the Royal Oak, as many of its devotees will attest, can be an acquired taste.
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The bezel also allows for well-designed hinges that allow the display to travel the 21-degree arc that makes this a 2-in-1 system.
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Rumored specs include a 6-inch OLED bezel-less display, dual cameras, a fingerprint sensor at the rear, and the return of LG's Quad DAC system.
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The only way for that to be true is for Apple to remove the home button which hogs up a good chunk of the bottom bezel.
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HP trimmed some of the bezel surrounding the display compared to the earlier x22, but it's still large and I'd love to see it reduced further.
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You can also expect an upgraded camera, wireless charging (finally), and an OLED screen with a bezel-less display (similar to Samsung's Galaxy S8 infinity screen).
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The Oasis has physical page-turn buttons, a pair of oblong capsules on the thick bezel of the device, that are positioned perfectly beneath your thumb.
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The phone looks almost exactly like the iPhone 7 from the back, but in front there's one of those bezel-less screens I've been dreaming about.
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When you attempt to watch a video, a big portion of the screen is taken over by big, black letter boxing, adding the already sizable bezel.
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The white shell is pearly and stark, the screen is surrounded by a large bezel, and there are enough ports to cover all your basic needs.
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Pressing the latter opens up a beautiful circular ring of apps that you can then browse through either with a swipe or by rotating the bezel.
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Basically, the Vivo Nex is a bleeding-edge device designed for anyone who wants the most legitimately bezel-free phone possible at this moment in time.
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It's got a notch on its front and a small bezel, or a "chin," on the bottom with the Nokia logo branded across the right corner.
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Like most other Android flagships this year, the X21 has a notched display with a tall aspect ratio and a slight chin bezel at the bottom.
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Vivo thinks that, with time, it could also reduce the bottom bezel to 1.8mm, which would give the phone an insane 98% screen-to-body ratio.
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That version had the colors of the Olympics: a yellow home button, a red power button, green volume controls, and a blue bezel near the camera.
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I'd be remiss to not mention Dell's XPS 13, which kicked off the bezel-less screen design in laptops with its Infinity Display back in 2015.
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The display also has a rather large chin on it, and I would have preferred to see a more bezel-less panel like Dell's XPS 13.
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The Gear S23 has a rotating bezel, it runs Samsung's own operating system, Tizen, a number of sensors, and a three-to-four-day battery life.
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They're both nearly bezel-less and have perks like a fingerprint sensor, decent storage options, and the Vivo XL3 runs on the latest version of Android.
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The frameless windows are a nice touch, combining well with the bezel-less wing mirrors to recreate the hottest trend in smartphone displays on an automobile.
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Click here to view original GIFKilling the bezel and the home button means there's no room for a fingerprint scanner on the front of the S8.
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Like many ultra-thin bezel laptops, the Swift 7 features an unconventional webcam location: in this case, a pop-up webcam built into the keyboard base.
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Display bezels are dying off in a variety of laptops, and now, Asus claims that it has created the "world's slimmest display bezel" for CES 2019.
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The design choice means there's a lot more room for screen, which has been increased from seven to 10.1 inches (with a still fairly sizable bezel).
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The company has now introduced multiple phones with minimal bezels, albeit not completely bezel-free, so it seems the team could be refocusing on something new.
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It also offers four different bezel colors — black, white, walnut, and beige wood — that can be attached via magnets to match the decor within your space.
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However, by playing with the standards – lume on the hands, the size and shape of the bezel, the style of band – you can create something unique.
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Is it a second screen or merely a long cutout to accommodate a front-facing camera and other sensors normally placed in the bezel and notch?
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"The metal bezel will be made of stainless steel using a forging process to enhance its sturdiness and reduce costs and manufacturing time," the report reads.
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In order to do this, Apple is going to eliminate the bezel around the screen so the surface of the device is just a giant screen.
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"Most smartwatch makers seem to think if they do a rose-gold version and add crystals to the bezel, it'll magically appeal to women," said Fumo.
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I'd much rather have a thicker top bezel so the webcam's not aimed up my nose like on the Dell XPS 13 or MateBook X Pro.
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Contrary to some early rumors, the screen does not appear to have a notch, and has a fair bit of bezel both on top and bottom.
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Just as edge-to-edge bezel-less displays forced us to relearn basic navigation, phones that can fold up will also require a major behavioral shift.
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Chinese smartphone maker Nubia has announced the Z11, a smartphone with an edge-to-edge display and the sequel to last year's bezel-free flagship Z9.
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The smaller, thinner Swordfish watch has a look that resembles the Pebble Time Round, according to Android Police, with much less bezel surrounding the circular display.
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One example Samsung gave: you can now turn the bezel left or right to answer a phone call, rather than having to swipe left or right.
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The only giveaways are the thinner bottom bezel, the square camera module, and the single-tone back compared with the two-tone backs of previous Pixels.
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The ASUS VivoBook 14 laptop properly immerses you in whatever you're doing, thanks to its frameless four-sided NanoEdge display, with an ultraslim 5.7 millimetre bezel.
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It also removes the gaps that speakers and buttons create, paving the way for fully waterproof devices, and could even enable the coveted bezel-less screen.
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But place your finger on the edge of the display and turn it clockwise or counterclockwise and you'll see Samsung's signature rotatable bezel control has returned.
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Because of the almost bezel-free design, the iPhone X packs a 5.8-inch display into a handset that's only barely larger than the screen itself.
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By placing your finger on the bezel, you're essentially creating a circuit which is then used to measure your heart rhythms and detect for atrial fibrillation.
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According to Speck's website, "The raised bezel is designed to resist screen shatters or cracks for those times when your phone falls and lands face-down."
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The same goes for a GMT Master with a "Pepsi" bezel — when the royal blue and crimson has faded to a psychedelic sky blue and fuchsia.
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Also, the bezel around the Gear S2199.95's face can move and perform a variety of actions like adjust the volume or answer a phone call.
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Previous reports have said the size will start at 65 inches and be called the Zero Bezel TV, although neither of those details has been confirmed.
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Samsung may have a new, groundbreaking type of television to show off at CES in Las Vegas next week: a completely bezel-less, 8K QLED model.
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Replacing her engagement ring with Meyer's Turquoise Marquise Ring, Meghan has also been wearing the matching Diamond Bezel Turquoise Marquise Studs, both from Meyer's new collection.
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The extra sensors appear to create a very thick (by 2019 standards) top bezel, even as most high-end smartphones are featuring edge-to-edge screens.
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The iconic outline of an iPhone, featuring two big bars of bezel at top and bottom and a round home button, is going to be no more.
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Usually priced at $3,299, this massive near bezel-less display from LG is an OLED, which means it's flexible and emits light better than traditional 4K TVs.
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The 4K touch display framed by a white bezel makes it feel more like a smartphone than a yawn-inducing laptop, in a weird but good way.
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It works well, but as each semi-circle fills up, it can take longer to rotate the bezel to get the the app you want to launch.
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Its new flagship, the Mi5, has a 5.15-inch bezel-free display and a main camera with 5.53-axis optical stabilization that corrects latitudinal and longitudinal movements.
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Its new flagship, the Mi5, has a 5.15-inch bezel-free display and a main camera with 4-axis optical stabilization that corrects latitudinal and longitudinal movements.
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Kokorin hit up Dave Bling and Big Will at DWS Jewelry & Co. in NYC for a "Rainbow Rolly" -- comprised of multicolored VS-1 diamonds on the bezel.
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Without a big bezel above or below the screen, Huawei stashed the webcam inside one of its keys, smack dab in the middle of the function row.
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Aping the Nextbit Robin design also means there's a big bezel on the top and bottom of the phone with front-firing Dolby Atmos speakers built in.
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The answer is that it's gone, killed in part by the X's bezel-less design, which leaves no room for a Touch ID sensor below the screen.
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As a starting point, however, Apple took a good, long look at the iPhone for a few insights into how to remove some of that unsightly bezel.
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The company's newer phones, including the flagship G6 that was released last month without Daydream support, use IPS screens; Xiaomi's bezel-less Mi Mix also uses IPS.
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Cheap Android alternatives keep sprouting up every day (today's example is the Realme X), featuring bezel-less screens, more RAM and storage, and, increasingly, better cameras, too.
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Blass says that the device, which appears to have a rather slim bezel, will run Android — but that's about all there is to know at this point.
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There's far more bezel than we've seen in the other leaked prototypes, and it doesn't have the glass and stainless steel sandwich design we've been thirsting after.
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That's a good thing, mind you, given that the OnePlus 7 (and its bezel-free display thanks to a sliding camera) looks pretty great in those leaks.
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My guess is the iPhone 20173 will have a thin bezel at the top to house the earpiece, selfie camera and sensors, similar to the Galaxy S8.
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Because the 33-inch rear display has an until recently conventional 16:9 aspect ratio, there's a large bezel above it with room to house the cameras.
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Maybe something more like the bottom of this Samsung concept, minus the physical home button and top bezel: The benefits are obvious: bigger screens, smaller phone dimensions.
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My main frustrations with it are common to many Windows laptops: it has a giant "chin" bezel at the bottom and a cramped 16:133 aspect ratio.
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Pretty soon that 821 processor is going to be outdated, and we're going to want more battery power, a higher resolution display, and even less bezel space.
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A recent rumor from Sammobile claims that Samsung may soon unveil the Galaxy Watch Active 2, and that wearable is said to feature a touch-sensitive bezel.
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Given that the device is said to have a full, bezel-less design similar to that of the Samsung Galaxy S8, there are two schools of thought.
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The holes in the bezel we've seen show enough gaps that it was all but certain that the Pixel 4 would have face unlock and Project Soli.
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What you're probably doing right now, gazing at these images, is trying to decide whether or not the bezel around the screen could accommodate a touch sensor.
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Apple's solution to keep the home button Touch ID with a bezel-free, edge-to-edge display was long rumored to be a display-embedded fingerprint scanner.
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Even though it no longer uses the area for hardware navigation, the Active has a thick bezel surrounding its display, which makes the screen look rather small.
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There may not be a notch, but the fact that Google managed to fit all of this stuff into the bezel in the first place is impressive.
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It is one of the best looking displays you'll find on something this cheap, with blacks so dark they blend into the bezel and beautiful vibrant colors.
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Apple has officially announced an event on October 30th where the company is expected to announce a new bezel-less iPad Pro and possibly some updated MacBooks.
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Yesterday, Samsung released its flagship Note 8 smartphone which boasts a similarly toned-down bezel and the company's largest-ever phone screen; the device begins at $930.
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And based on the placement of a sensor in the top left-hand portion of the bezel, it seems unlikely that the V35 ThinQ will have one.
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Xiaomi's highest-end phone is the latest iteration of the line that kicked off the whole bezel-shaving trend we've been living through for the past year.
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Despite having the white back and gold trim, the front of the phone has a black bezel around the display like the other versions of the 6.
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That means, as promised, a dual-edged curved display for the 5.7-inch smartphone, bringing the virtually bezel-free curvature to the line for the first time.
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TL;DR: The bezel-less 2018 MacBook Air in space grey is on sale for $949.99, which is $249.01 off and its lowest price ever at Amazon.
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That puts it in the same range as the Moto G5 Plus, which has similar specs but not the nice, nearly bezel-free design and metal body.
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The plastic is gone in favor of a machined aluminum chassis, and the screen now has a far slimmer bezel that actually improves on the XPS 13.
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It shows what is presumably the power button on this new Kodak phone, embedded in a nice machined bezel and with a Kodak K stamped on it.
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Otherwise, this is one of the better LCD screens ever made in my opinion, and now it has less bezel and fun rounded corners — plus no notch.
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It's a design choice which might sit better with some users than the others — after all, Lenovo could've easily put an aluminum stripe below the bottom bezel.
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The video, uploaded by Samsung Vietnam according to XDA Developers, shows a foldable phone, a bezel-less, notch-less phone, and a new tablet — among other gadgets.
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The display, for starters, has no bottom bezel whatsoever, which looks futuristic, but would be a nightmare to handle and is probably impractical in engineering terms anyway.
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The new Nokia 5.1 Plus pictured in leaked images sports a 5.7-inch display, and the Nokia logo has migrated from the top bezel to the chin.
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In April 2017, Samsung Display's principal engineer, Kim Tae-woong said the company was focusing on bezel-free displays first and would then pivot to bendable displays.
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The bezel is big enough I can hold the iPad one-handed and not accidentally flick to the next page as I do with a larger iPad.
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Yonhap says Samsung has since decided to eliminate all confusion and extend that protective film layer underneath the bezel so you're not tempted to pick at it.
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The company's early watch models struggled for acclaim, but we found the Gear S2 to be surprisingly good, with an attractive interface and well-designed spinning bezel.
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But Dell's new monitor will pique your interest, with a 43-inch 4K display and the option to run as four separate 1080p screens, without bezel breaks.
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The screen's bottom bezel is conspicuously large, too, and new phones in 2016 without fingerprint sensors and USB-C ports are starting to feel a little outdated.
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Here, however, that refers to FullVision — essentially an optional black bar that sits on either side of the notch, creating the appearance of a flush top bezel.
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The sensor is located on the far left side of the top bezel and shoots out a beam of infrared light to detect and authenticate your iris.
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This is why the Suora piqued my interest, with its promise of a minimalist "frameless" design, which is basically the keyboard equivalent of a bezel-less smartphone.
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The Aquos mini SH-M03 is the latest mini version of the bezel-hating Sharp Aquos that made its way to Sprint a couple of years ago.
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"If you have to take your thumb off the bezel, and put it over the display and put it down, that's cognitive load right there," Green said.
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LG G8, $499.99 (originally $849.99) [You save $350]Like most recent flagship phones, the LG G499.993 has a full, nearly bezel-free screen with a high resolution.
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Images of the new Pixel 4 from Google appear to show a large bezel running across the top of the device to carry an array of sensors.
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The bezel change means the camera has been moved to below the display, and I tested it briefly and it's safe to say the angle is awkward.
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Reviewers declared this next-generation Daytona, with its techie Cerachrom bezel, a triumph, "the watch Rolex lovers have been waiting for," in the words of Gear Patrol.
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Lenovo vice president Chang Cheng is teasing a new phone on China's Weibo social network that's nothing but screen framed by an ultra-thin bezel (via CNET).
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The new photos show the OnePlus 6 will have a notched display and a thin bezel on the bottom that's slightly obscured by the phone's dark wallpaper.
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Here's the Galaxy S10 Plus for reference, with the punch hole camera on the top right, and a thicker top bezel than the Galaxy S11's render.
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Because of the thin bezel on the phone, Huawei followed the Samsung route and built the fingerprint scanner on the back, just below where the camera sits.
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The Mi Mix was a hit beyond Xiaomi's usual pool of fans thanks to a stunning front design which is nearly all screen and very little bezel.
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Steve Troughton-Smith took advantage of that to find out that the next iPhone is going to feature facial recognition and a brand new "bezel-less" design.
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" She bought its Big Bang Steel Diamonds watch because "it has a rubber strap, which makes it casual, but it's combined with elegant diamonds on the bezel.
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The new piece is reminiscent of the original: The lugs are inspired by the brand's Maltese cross emblem, and the retro box crystal rises above the bezel.
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The side of the watch has three built-in electrodes, so all you need to do is place your finger on the bezel to take a reading.
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Apple slimmed down the bezel — or the border surrounding the screen — to make more room for the display; the tablet's body is also slightly larger and heavier.
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About the only thing that Dell spins as an improvement, but still is a dud to me, is the webcam located on the bezel below the screen.
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This year it's a reminder that rolling TVs are coming and so is 212K and so are radical new designs that are bezel-less or ultra-thin.
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Brando refused, instead he altered the piece by removing the bezel from its face, making it appear more rugged to better fit his character in the movie.
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Engadget Chinese has the details, and they include a 10.8-inch LCD screen with a 2,560x1,600 pixel resolution, 540 nits of brightness, and a tiny, 4.9mm bezel.
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The Light Phone 2, in a lot of ways, is banking on the same premise: our phones don't have to be uniform slabs of bezel-less glass.
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Luxe is the standout model with a 42mm stainless-steel bezel and casing with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal lens and choice of leather or Milanese metal straps.
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It's got a circular case and a ceramic bezel, and notably, the ECG and PPG sensors have been moved to the side and back of the device.
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The front-facing camera, IR sensor, and proximity sensor holes on the top bezel all appear to be in the same position as the Note 8 as well.
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The Pro feels like the smaller phone, however, due to the narrower 13:9 aspect ratio it shares with many of this year's similarly sized "bezel-less" phones.
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All you have to do is twist the rotating bezel left to see your recent notifications, or right to view all your pertinent fitness stats and music controls.
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Its display, surrounded by that enormous bezel, makes it look comically old-fashioned next to similarly priced devices like the Dell XPS 13 or HP's Elitebook 735 G5.
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Though, if you really think about it, Sharp has never been a fan of bezels—remember the mostly bezel-less beauty that was Aquos Crystal back in 2014?
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The first thing to notice from the renders — again, these are company supplied graphics not independent product shots — is the impressive edge-to-edge screen and tiny bezel.
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The leaked image showcases the new sizing of Apple's soon-to-be-unveiled flagship bezel-less devices, which likely will have 5.8-inch and 6.5-inch screens, respectively.
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The two things such placement provides to viewer are: It's not flattering angle, exactly, taking the bottom bezel camera introduced by companies like Dell to its logical conclusion.
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It's similar in execution to last year's Sony Xperia XZ103, except Sony managed to remove its logo from the bottom chin bezel and replace it with more screen.
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It has the same bezel-less and notch-free design as the standard S10, so you get even more screen in a phone that's not too physically huge.
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The new Flip also has a bezel-free display with a hole-punch-like cutout for the camera, similar to Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones, unlike last year's Fold.
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The most expensive of the three new iPhone models, priced at nearly $1,000, will feature a bezel-less OLED screen, and will unlock using facial recognition, sources confirmed.
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The footprint of the system's lower half has been reduced by moving the home button below the D-pad, allowing for a slimmer bezel around the bottom screen.
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Sony is avoiding both the bezel-less and dual camera trend, and I'm not sure how many people will want to stick with an older look in 2017.
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The display's overall look is very bezel-heavy and won't turn heads in the same way that Samsung's Galaxy S8, the upcoming Note 8, or LG's G6 can.
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Last year, for example, Xiaomi used Elliptic's tech to replace the infrared proximity sensor in the Mi Mix handset, allowing the company to eliminate the phone's top bezel.
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Last but not least, Wear 2.0 supports "rotational" input, in case your watch has a crown you want to spin or a watch bezel you want to twirl.
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Like the Mi Mix, the Doogee has that bezel-less wow factor, with a display that seems to run off the edge of the handset on three sides.
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It starts with its 6.3-inch Infinity Display that stretches to the very edges of the phone's frame, leaving just a small bezel above and below the screen.
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The laptop itself has a thin 7.8m bezel that gives the display an 80 percent screen-to-body ratio as well and also features Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics.
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There's precious little in the way of feature clues for the nearly bezel-less device, and going head-to-head against Apple's iPhone will undoubtedly require something radical.
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For years, users have longed for a phone that's totally made up of a screen—no bullshit bezel needed—and this looks like one way it could happen.
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Honor briefly showed off its upcoming Magic 2 phone a few months back, revealing a bezel-less screen and a sliding mechanism that opens up to a camera.
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A report today in the New York Times suggest that Apple's new high-end bezel-less iPhone is going to have quite the price bump, starting at $999.
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Also, Dell, Gigabyte, and others can take note from MSi here: there's barely any bezel at the top of the screen, but there's enough space for a webcam.
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Samsung is way ahead of most competitors you would realistically consider, like the Google Pixel, and the iPhone 83, which are both encased in unsightly prisons of bezel.
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The other area that might affect consumer purchasing is the bezel gulf, which basically means that the smaller Pixel has larger top and bottom portions around the display.
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The front has a notch like the iPhone X's, although the iPhone's is slightly wider, and is similarly bezel-less with an all-glass body and facial recognition.
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Doogee, known for its "manly" phones, has made a bezel-less and notch-less 5.99-inch phone with a neat sliding mechanism that hides the front-facing camera.
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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon may have just the thing with a new smartwatch interface that uses that fleshy bezel right next to the typically tiny displays: your arm.
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The super-thin, near-bezel-less tablet at 0:18 is dreamy, and the gaming phone at 0:37 appears to be all screen, without bezels or notches.
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Overall, the Nex S deals with the question of where to put a front-facing camera on a bezel-less device far better than any laptop I've seen.
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The bottom bezel might be slightly thinner, and the S Pen slot could be a little more flush with the device, but it's hard to tell for sure.
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But the real concerning thing isn't its source, but what it shows, because based on the render, the Galaxy Sport doesn't seem to come with a rotating bezel.
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So if kicking the rotating bezel wasn't the end of the world, the battery life is decent, the hardware is solid, and the design is good—what gives?
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It's a pretty striking look — once again — and it fits with the biggest trend in devices this year, minimizing the bezel in exchange for maximum front screen size.
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There's a nearly bezel-free edge-to-edge display on the front with no physical home button, and a new vertically oriented dual lens camera on the back.
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Normally priced at $1,998, this VIZIO 4K TV features a wide 13-inch display that's almost bezel-less and near edge-to-edge for an immersive viewing experience.
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At 5.63 lbs, the battery can last up to 15 hours—and the borderless display (meaning there's virtually no bezel surrounding the screen) makes the onscreen images pop.
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Some of the key features of the device include a so-called "infinity display", giving the device a bezel-less curved edge and a 12 megapixel back camera.
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The new laptops are supposedly thinner and lighter, and in the leaked photos you can see a smaller bezel around the screen as well as smaller speaker strips.
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For a big design, there's no excuse for this — the Moto 360 had to make that compromise for the ambient light sensor because the bezel was so small.
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It's quick and smooth and can be navigated by using one of two buttons on the side of the watch or by twisting and turning the watch's bezel.
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The pictures, tweeted by a smartphone leak account called Ice Universe, show a large 'forehead' bezel running across the top of the device, in place of a notch.
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Lenovo is known for having a slightly enlarged bottom bezel on its Yoga range, but it's usually offset by the bezels on either side and above the display.
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All the most exciting things, such as Vivo's outrageous bezel-less prototype with a pop-up selfie cam, were coming from west and east of my home continent.
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You can shop the eight pieces included in the Crowdsource Capsule below, ranging from $100 bezel rings with your birthstone to $760 for a single Diamond Quadricolor Hoop.
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The hue could look better on the real deal and Apple could go with a black bezel around the edge-to-edge display instead of a white one.
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The Royal Oak is widely considered to be one of the most iconic watches in the history of horology, with a unique octagonal bezel that is instantly recognizable.
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The watch has a unidirectional bezel, which can be used for accurately recording dive times and displaying different time zones, and is water-resistant up to 660 feet.
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The new watch is slightly thinner, but the black frame around the screen — what is known as the bezel — has been removed to create a larger display area.
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One of those is this 2100-millimeter steel model with a polished black ceramic bezel, a reverse panda dial (a current Tag Heuer favorite) and racy red detailing.
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Sure, $80 isn't nothing, but in the grand scheme of things, that's not a lot more for better sensors, a digital touch bezel, and other new features too.
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People go crazy for specific details on the dial, or a Speedmaster case that comes from a certain supplier, or just discoloration of the bezel or luminous material.
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Called "picture-on-glass" by LG, the E9 affixes its OLED panel directly on a pane of glass with a very thin profile and virtually bezel-free design.
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It also features a thin screen bezel, so if you decide to be a little extra and get multiple monitors, they'll offer a seamless experience across multiple screens.
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These include new functionality for Bixby Voice, more customization options for its watch faces, new Samsung Health features, and a touch bezel interface for the Galaxy Watch Active.
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Obviously the company hasn't actually introduced a foldable display à la Samsung's device, so there's a small bezel between the two, meaning there's limited flow between the two.
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The V249 ditches all of that crap and focuses on the essentials: premium design, big screen with bezel-less edges, and dual cameras that shoot professional-quality video.
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The company said it made room for the screen by reducing the size of the bezel — or the forehead and the chin — on the face of the device.
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Most noticeably, the Pixel 23 XL has an iPhone-like notch this time around, while the notchless Pixel 3 offers a reduced bezel but no edge-to-edge screen.
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The two devices are said to offer improved cameras, water resistance, and — for the Pixel 2 XL, at least — a new, bezel-free design similar to the Galaxy S8.
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The Ionic is, without a doubt, one of the ugliest smartwatches available right now, and no band can gussy up the huge black square of the display and bezel.
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IMAGE: 2speckpresido A no-nonsense option for the practical, Speck's Presidio Grip will give you no-slip grip, a raised bezel to shield the screen and overall impact protection.
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The first big takeaway is that giant notch at the top of the screen, which, combined with the phone's large bottom bezel, makes for a pretty awkward-looking device.
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Before spending time with the iPad Pro I was worried the slimmer bezel would be too small, and that resting my fingers on display would result in accidental touches.
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The design hasn't changed at all beyond a new gold finish and some matte chamfered edges, and the mobile industry's recent bezel-killing trends haven't done it any favors.
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The screen does leave some bezel at the bottom of the phone, but nevertheless it's as close to the whole front of a phone being display as I've seen.
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As for the selfie camera and sensors (light, proximity, etc.), both phones merely relocate them to the bottom bezel — an awkward place that's not ideal for shooting flattering selfies.
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The user experience is largely identical to that of the Galaxy Watch, and it's clearly meant to work best with a rotating bezel that can quickly scroll through menus.
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A 3:2 aspect, like that found on Surface computers or Huawei's line of MateBooks, would provide more vertical space while also getting rid of the unsightly bottom bezel.
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There are those ornate speaker grilles above and below the bezel (which are even louder than the last gen) and the fast fingerprint sensor smack dab in the rear.
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It used ceramic, came with a huge bezel-less screen, and eschewed a traditional earpiece and unsightly proximity sensors for ultrasound technology to hide these things underneath the screen.
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Even though we've seen the no-bezel trick on phones like the Galaxy S21, it still feels remarkable to have such a large display on such a small phone.
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This new one is rumored to have a touch-sensitive bezel around the screen, which should let you navigate by running your finger around the edge of the screen.
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Photography is now the biggest differentiator among Android phones, especially given how many companies have figured out how to do good design, big batteries, and (mostly) bezel-less screens.
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Xiaomi, the company that started the no-bezel smartphone craze with its futuristic Mi Mix in 2016, has a new iteration out, and once again it's breaking through boundaries.
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Chinese manufacturer Doogee has unveiled an impressive-looking bezel-less handset named the Doogee Mix, and it's almost a complete clone of Xiaomi's Mi Mix handset, announced last year.
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Its near bezel-less display is edge-to-edge LED in a slim and sleek presentation that will look good just about anywhere in your living room or bedroom.
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That screen is pushed to the outer edges of the phone's frame, taking up 83 percent of the front panel and leaving very little bezel above and below it.
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Both the gold and the platinum versions have the same specs as the standard Gear S2 Classic, and the case is the same as well, rotating bezel and all.
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If you loved the OnePlus 5, but just wanted to see it with one of those fancy bezel-deprived displays, this new phone is the answer to your hopes.
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It's large and bright and though there is a little bit of a "chin" bezel below the screen, it's also not like other Android phones don't have one either.
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We've rounded up the five biggest rumors about Apple's new iPads here: The biggest change for this year's new iPads are expected to be a new, reduced bezel display.
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The bezel is hardly noticeable, and you can reach most of the screen with your thumb—the phone feels very thin, partly because the body tapers towards the edges.
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Dell says it designed a new 21mm-thick webcam module using precision techniques employed in smartphone cameras to squeeze it onto the 213mm-thick bezel above the "InfinityEdge" display.
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Fossil today announced a new smartwatch in its Q line called the Q Control that comes with a touchscreen bezel that allows for quick scrolling through the device's interface.
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The Key2 looks a lot like its predecessor, except TCL — which makes most BlackBerry phones now — has slimmed down the top bezel and made space for slightly wider keys.
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Further contributing to the bezel-less effect is Vivo's glass-vibrating "screen soundcasting technology," which replaces the earpiece speaker, and it sounded pretty good in my experience with Apex.
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Like the battery bump on the reverse, utility thankfully trumps looks this time out, and two sizable buttons have been included among a black expanse of a side bezel.
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In the meantime, between Oppo, Honor, and now Xiaomi, it's clear that the battle for cracking the sliding camera bezel-less phone of the future has officially kicked off.
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But it's something the entire industry will have to address, lest we end up with the horror that would be a bezel-less laptop with a permanent screen notch.
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At a glance, it just looks like the phone has a thicker top bezel, although if you squint you can see where the notch ends and the screen begins.
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Its use here will make the S10 Samsung's first flagship phone to include any kind of screen interruption instead of building the tech into the bezel above the display.
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The border around the screen is slightly thicker on the bottom edge than the other three, but it's still only about the same thickness as an iPhone XR bezel.
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Gigabyte's new AERO 15 includes a 1080p 15.6-inch display that supports 144Hz refresh rates and has a small 5mm bezel (apart from a giant chin at the bottom).
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It shows very skinny bezels, with dual front cameras, and notably, an oblong home button that doubles up as a fingerprint reader and barely fits on the bottom bezel.
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There's no notches or cutouts to distract from that gorgeous display, and the remaining slivers of bezel are nicely balanced, giving the phone a stately, poised sort of look.
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The new watches use the same software and interface as the Gear S2 and S2 Classic released last year, including the clever rotating bezel for navigating the user interface.
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Also note that, unlike Huawei's MateBook X Pro, the MateBook 13 doesn't have a camera hidden in the keyboard — the 1-megapixel webcam is placed in the top bezel.
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There are no details yet on what Samsung may have changed this time around, but SamMobile says the S3 will stick with its predecessor's much-praised rotating bezel design.
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Nothing says sci-fi like a bezel-less screen, and Xiaomi's newly announced Mi Mix Android phablet is very sci-fi with its 24 percent screen-to-body ratio.
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It was light, its wristband was supple and comfortable, and it had a rotating bezel and a software interface that both felt fresh, unique, and just fun to use.
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Unfortunately, Lenovo hasn't fully removed or even trimmed down the bottom bezel, so it leaves the overall design looking a little odd when you stare at the Yoga 910.
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There's a polycarbonate frame; stainless steel bezel and case back; and Gorilla Glass over its 1.39-inch, 400 x 400 pixel, fully circular touchscreen display with ambient light sensor.
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This was the first ASUS laptop to feature a frameless four-sided NanoEdge display, giving users a 699.993 millimetre bezel for a seriously impressive 89% screen-to-body ratio.
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If for any reason the bezel is accidentally moved, it will display less time rather than more time, with the latter being a potentially crucial error while scuba diving.
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To prevent consumers from accidentally peeling off the protective layer, Samsung's reportedly extended it to cover the entire foldable screen instead of stopping near the edges of the bezel.
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Samsung uses OLED screens in its Galaxy S29 handsets, which have a similar "bezel-less" screen design to what we're expecting Apple will roll out with the iPhone 26.
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It uses the same thermoelectric tech to harvest your body heat, but this time around, it's a bit more useful thanks to a solar cell located around the bezel.
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