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Bezel Wars!

The larger bezels on the iPhone 6 Plus is for additional security when holding the device, especially in landscape mode. Apple also likes to maintain symmetry in their devices (unlike the Sharp, with the massive bezel at the bottom and nothing on top). Can't imagine trying to hold the Sharp in landscape mode. Is the front facing camera actually on the bottom of the Sharp phone?

I've been using a 6 Plus now for about 2 weeks and I find the bezels to be just right, like my iPad Air.
 
I think its pretty sexy myself.. just add touchID.. no way should phones get released without touchID..
 
Shabbis said:
Is the front facing camera actually on the bottom of the Sharp phone?
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I never noticed it, but now that you mentioned it, actually the front camera on bottom of the phone is better for taking selfie where your forehead isn't covering 90% of the area

I'm not saying it's the best design, but I am liking the fact that it has almost no bezel.

I guess it's too early. When Apple does that in 2016 it will be revolutionary.
 
Tiger8 said:
I never noticed it, but now that you mentioned it, actually the front camera on bottom of the phone is better for taking selfie where your forehead isn't covering 90% of the area
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No it isn't. That has to do with how you frame the image, not the location of the camera lens on the device.
 
Oh no, it also has a notification LED :eek:

I like the small bezel look though I don't care for how large the bottom of that phone is. Perhaps when curved/side display screens get to be mainstream we'll see Apple incorporate them and the whole front glass will have that infinity pool look?
 
how can you call it bezel free with 4 inches of bezel at the bottom? do on screen buttons and get rid of the bottom, make it thinner and update the screen then call me
 
i was gonna do a thread about this phone but i noticed there are a bunch of them. this phone is awesome looking, its a game changer for sure. cant wait to buy this phone...your move apple & samsung. this phone even has Harman Kardon aka JBL audio when you plug in your head phones. Mind Blown.
 
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I understand wanting more screen and less bezel but yet the thought of a little to none bezel free phone makes me nervous. With my luck i would crack the screen somehow on the first day.
 
The large bezels on the 6 Plus were the ultimate reason for me moving to the 6. The 6 also has large bezels relative to screen size, but the overall size is still very easy to manage.

If the iPhone 7 Plus is a smaller phone with the same size 5.5" screen, similar to or at least approaching the footprint of the LG G3, I'll definitely switch to the Plus.

Bezels, bezels, bezels.
 
Doesn't bother me. At all. I'm sure they'll be reduced when the iPhone 7 comes out. The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will be the same on the outside as is always the case with the "s" models.
 
Newtons Apple said:
Bezel is a non issue to me.

Do you think Apple is making the bezel big just to p|ss people off?:rolleyes:
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Not at all.

The bezels on the iPhone 6 are basically a non-issue, as the overall size of the phone is still pretty compact by today's standards. The bezels on the iPhone 4 were even bigger, but again, it didn't matter, as the overall size of the phone was quite small.

The problem enters with the 6 Plus, which was not designed with the size in mind, but only as a blown up 6. Larger screen Android phones have been designed around their screen size for quite some time. The proof is in the fact that a Galaxy Note 4 has a footprint of 18.66 square inches, while the iPhone 6 Plus' footprint is 19.03 square inches, yet the Note 4 manages to get an extra .2" of screen in there.

Apple's got some improvement to do in their phablet design for sure, but I think they like it that way. They've sold a crap-ton of the things already. They can only improve from here.
 
I don't understand complaining about bezels on the iPhone. Especially the bottom one.

Do some people really want Apple to drop the physical home button, shorten the bezels on the top and bottom and put in a virtual home button? What's the point in that? Why waste screen real estate for that?
 
Surf Monkey said:
The bezels serve a functional purpose. There should be a part of the front of the phone that isn't touch screen. It's the bezels. Personally I don't find them to be too big at all. The anti-bezel hype strikes me as exactly that: hype.
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This reminds me of "You're holding it wrong"...
 
Bearxor said:
I don't understand complaining about bezels on the iPhone. Especially the bottom one.

Do some people really want Apple to drop the physical home button, shorten the bezels on the top and bottom and put in a virtual home button? What's the point in that? Why waste screen real estate for that?
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Yes please, I'd LOVE that!
 
sunking101 said:
A smaller, more modern looking phone without a mechanical home button?
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So you just want a smaller screen and no actual button?

Because if it's a virtual home button, to me, that's bezel. That's essentially unusable screen real estate. It could go away during videos but then you've got to tap the virtual home button a couple of times.

I'll admit that I'm a little biased because I LOVE the physical button. But, I never understood the idea that an onscreen button bar will let you make the phone smaller and easier to hold because all you're basically saying to me is that a phone with a smaller screen is easier to hold.
 
Tiger8 said:
Ok, I think Sharp has released a game changer, the Acqous Crystal, a truly edgeless (or closest to edgeless) phone:

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And at only $149, off contract! Talk about a debut

Yet our $650+ iPhones and Galaxies and HTCs are stuck with the same Bezel from 2007. We'll have to wait to September 2016 to see any progress in that. Oh well
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Where in the U.S. can you buy these Sharp Aquos phones? For $149, I don't mind shelling for it and keeping it as a backup. Also, isn't AQUOS what Sharp called their LCD flat panel TV's?
 
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