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Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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Without the bezels, all our phones will look the same. We'll be holding a slab of pixels with some OS, with some voice-activated assistent, with some apps. More or less the same. Even more so than now.

Unless someone gets a design patent on "rounded rectangle without bezels".

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I'm more function over form so and I can't imagine having a bezel-less phone that won't be a nightmare to use (using one hand).

I think machine learning can be employed to filter out accidental touches from the meaningful ones. It is already done in iPad Pro that allows to use Apple Pencil while holding your hand on the screen, and still detects meaningful touches.

Apple also implemented the same feature when the iPad mini (2012) came out [1]

[1] http://www.imore.com/ipad-mini-has-advanced-software-detect-...

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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Sharp did it 2 years ago with their Aquos Crystal Image: http://resize.indiatvnews.com/en/centered/oldbucket/750_533/...

Did anyone actually use this phone? If so, what are your thoughts?

It was fine if you kept it in a case. That protects from the errant touch events I mentioned in another comment here, as well as making it so I don't have to look at the back cover.

Maybe unrelated, I've had the phone for probably two years (it supposedly came out two years ago as well - didn't think I bought a brand new phone but I guess I did). Recently (past month or so), it's started rebooting at random throughout the day. I'd do a factory reset if I didn't dread the thought of dealing with all of my 2FA stuff.

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I'm more function over form so and I can't imagine having a bezel-less phone that won't be a nightmare to use (using one hand).

I'm not a fan either but Galaxy S Edge is quite popular and I think it has sides that are far more prone to unintended interactions. Yet, I never hear of anyone having that issue.

I have the Edge and frankly i hate this gimmick precisely for that reason. Never used cases on my previous phones, but will be looking for one this time. Love the extra large battery though, so it's not all bad.

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I'm more function over form so and I can't imagine having a bezel-less phone that won't be a nightmare to use (using one hand).

I'm not a fan either but Galaxy S Edge is quite popular and I think it has sides that are far more prone to unintended interactions. Yet, I never hear of anyone having that issue.

I am having that issue with Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. Whenever the screen is unresponsive it is because you are accidentally touching some part of the screen with your palm.

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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post #4

Without the bezels, all our phones will look the same. We'll be holding a slab of pixels with some OS, with some voice-activated assistent, with some apps. More or less the same. Even more so than now.

Unless someone gets a design patent on "rounded rectangle without bezels".

a circular bezelless phone, one a little chain, in my pocket. I want one.

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

One way to do so is to make the UI in a way that it does not have anything actionable on the bezels. Kind of a "virtual" bezel.

Then honestly what's the point? You are going to sacrifice structural integrity and add cost and complexity. A virtual bezel is about as "useful" as using virtual buttons on an Android device that has physical capacitive buttons, I never understood why people do that.

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Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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post #4

Without the bezels, all our phones will look the same. We'll be holding a slab of pixels with some OS, with some voice-activated assistent, with some apps. More or less the same. Even more so than now.

Personally, I'm more function over form so and I can't imagine having a bezel-less phone that won't be a nightmare to use (using one hand).

I had the Galaxy Note 7, an almost bezel-less phone, and did not encounter any issue with accidental touches. I expect bezels to continue diminishing. This will help create easier to hold devices (smaller) while keeping healthy sized screens (5").

Re: Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display

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Without the bezels, all our phones will look the same. We'll be holding a slab of pixels with some OS, with some voice-activated assistent, with some apps. More or less the same. Even more so than now.

Once we went to slabs with the original iPhone all our phones have generally looked the same. Thus this already happened.
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