10 Smartphones with Little or No Screen Bezels That Seem to Be from the Future

It's 2015 and the way things are looking, smartphone manufacturers - especially ones hailing from China - are rampaging against the screen bezel. What used to be a niche is now a small crusade that's invading markets left and right, laughing at you for buying an expensive smartphone whose screen bezels are wider than a hair's width. From Oppo and Sharp all the way to LG & Samsung, slim screen bezels are slowly but surely becoming a characteristic of high-end smartphones. It will only be a matter of time before bezels go the way of the dinosaur and all Android flagships start looking like Sharp's AQUOS Crystal phones. 

Moto Droid Razr i

Long before anyone cared how big their screen bezels were, Motorola marketed the Razr i as wielding the first edge-to-edge display. Alas, the (partly) successful exercise in eliminating the side bezels was made futile by the smartphone's incredibly bulky frame! But underneath all that girth hides a smartphone that was both well equipped for its time and aware of future design trends! The Moto Razr i has a Gorilla Glass-covered 4.3-inch Super-AMOLED screen with a 540x960 resolution and runs on an Intel Atom Z2460 chipset with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. It also has as much RAM as the latest iPhone (1GB). It also rocks an 8-megapixel cam, and it's powered by a 2000mAh battery. The operating system is Android 4.1.2. Overall, we'd say this one holds up pretty well, although the latest achievements in smartphone design render make it look quite unflattering.

Sharp SH-01G AQUOS ZETA

Sharp's later smartTV and smartphone output has the "look ma, no bezel!" look as its defining characteristic. Indeed, the company hates screen bezels as much as it loves spelling everything in uppercase! The Sharp AQUOS ZETA SH0-01G is a recent example of the company's EDGEST design philosophy in motion, giving you a nearly all-screen experience. The 5.5-inch 1080p display reaches to all sides and covers over 80% of the smartphone! In addition, the gadget runs on Qualcomm's capable Snapdragon 801 chipset and has 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 13.1-megapixel main cam, 4K video recording, and operates with Android 4.4 KitKat. Unfortunately, Sharp never brought it outside Japan, as it is an exclusive to local carrier Docomo.