iPhone 15 Pro Max to 'Break Record' for Thinnest Bezels on a Smartphone

[Student of Life]

While welcomed, a thinner bezel is long over due on the laptop side instead.

 

[anthogag]

15 Pro Max thinner bezels proves, without second thought, Xiaomi sucks. 🤮

 

[bLackjackj]

Not to mention that the iPhone still has the huge floating notch! Not long until Apple removes that too, if the leaked road map is to be believed.

 

[tridley68]

Can't wait for my yearly upgrade

 

[WWPD]

Begun, the bezzle wars have. -Yoda probably

 

[topmounter]

RIP New Ideas. Long love the war on bezels...

 

[majkom]

I have zero desire for less bezels. It only means that the case will be even uglier and will have a harder time protecting the phone.
The iPhone has never been possible to use without a case, it has always been slippery like a soap. Now, more or less totally made from glass and a pricetag above a good laptop, they are soon way too fragile and way too expensive to actually use day-to-day.
I don't need a rugged phone looking all "tactical", but ffs, make them have some impact areas and able to take some abuse.
The 3G/3Gs were great, the screen was pretty well protected from drops, and the plastic case made it somewhat less slippery.

Imho 5c was best regaedung holding and usability

 

[snak-atak]

give me a break

That’s exactly what your screen will eventually get with these super thin bezels.

 

[mrj101]

I just want it to be lighter.

 

[Razorpit]

Ugh, I’m a sucker for smaller bezels. I don’t think it’ll get me to upgrade from my 14 Pro Max though with the rumored price hikes and likely minimal difference in day-to-day usage.

Well I guess the question is how much of a sucker are you. 😂

 

[sonicrobby]

It will probably also break the record for largest camera bump on any phone

 

[jonnysods]

Keep the screen size the same for the regular Pro model, and reduce the form factor please!

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Gonna be hard to place a screen protector correctly.

 

[cdsapplefan]

iPhone 15 turning out to be a Beast of a Phone, definitely will be waiting in line for it!

 

[814MB]

I’ve been an iPhone user since Verizon started carrying them. Current 13 Pro user. The 14 series is the first time I’ve opted out of a new phone every year, and the route the 15 is looking - no thanks. I’m starting to be put off by the design. I do not want a telescope mounted on the back of my phone to take photos. I do not want bezels so thin I’m afraid to drop the phone on a pillow. iPhone seems to get more slippery every year. The Apple design team is doing a great job of making me check out Android options.

 

[Rogifan]

How about they try slim down the giant camera bump?

Or keep improving battery?

We might get less bezel but will need to pay more!

I think the bezels are fine as they are. Soo much better than the old design with the huge forehead and chin. God those designs pre X were awful. I don't know how people can still use those phones!

How do you slim down the camera bump without degrading the camera quality or making the phone thicker (which would probably make it heavier)?

 

[nt5672]

So are we gonna be back to bend-gate? Or will it be some other failure mode, yet un-heard of?

 

[TwoBytes]

I guess apple has to justify the 20% price increase with 'thinnest ever' something whilst hiding the lackluster battery performance...

 

[school computer user]

Question: I don't use an iphone but I like to know how do y'all get used to the notch or dynamic island, I get that the dynamic island seems easier to forget when watching a video or playing a game but what about the notch?

 

[814MB]

How do you slim down the camera bump without degrading the camera quality or making the phone thicker (which would probably make it heavier)?

As a 6’2” man I’d welcome a thicker phone if it meant: 1) thinner camera tumor, 2) bigger battery

 

[riverfreak]

Reading this article, I was trying to evaluate the bezels on a 14PM.

It was then I noticed how the thin line around story boxes on the MacRumors main page actually seems to accentuate the bezels.

So even the thinnest bezels will still look like, well, bezels.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

That’s awesome! Say good bye to the bezels! 👋

 

[satchmo]

They could broken this record 2-3 years ago. Reducing the bezels one millimeter each year is simply called a feature now.

 

[UK-MacAddict]

I find this a super boring measurement.
Say what you will about Samsung, but they bent the edge around the corners and that worked very very well. A thinner bezel is like promoting an efficient Diesel engine in the electric car era: It's really not impressive.

Was going to say didn’t Samsung smash this out the park with the curved edge displays.

 

[dwaltwhit]

I'm sure this will not age well, or at the very least show how un-cool I am, but I need a little bezel to be able to handle my phone. I already sometimes open new emails by accident when I reach across to return to all my inboxes in mail. Also, the edges are the least usable space. Do I want giant bezels? Absolutely not. Will "The worlds thinnest bezels®" keep me from buying a new iPhone? No.