Frameless phones - fad or revolution?

If there is one particular trend in the smartphone market that has captured the minds of manufacturers and buyers in 2017, then it is undoubtedly “frameless”. The struggle to create a phone with the largest possible touch screen surface area has become a trend with great benefits for the end user. A larger surface gives you much more options and allows you to take better photos or watch movies in better quality. Today, every self-respecting brand should have such equipment in its assortment!

What is all the screaming about?

Frameless phones are clearly not some kind of miracle invention that functions as a separate screen. These are still well-known smartphones, wrapped in a plastic case that is so thin that the edges of the screen, which take up too much space, have become as thin as a sheet of paper. The consequence of this is the ability to put in a pants pocket a device with a screen approaching six inches, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. A large working and display area, combined with a huge pixel density, gives the effect of the most clear image, which phones can envy both computer monitors and modern TVs.

What to choose?

In recent months, the “controversial” design of Apple’s flagship phone, the iPhone X, has been the most talked about. The strange, notched screen at the top did not please everyone, but the American giant has proven many times that it can effectively predict, and sometimes even create fashion. However, here the "apples" were not the first. A few months earlier, Samsung's top phone model, the Galaxy S8, hit the market. The rivalry between the two companies has been going on for years, and every time a new model is launched, consumers ask themselves: who will overtake whom and for how long? Of course, you don't have to spend your entire paycheck on one Galaxy. You can settle for something a little smaller - there are many models on the market that meet this basic principle: they have a huge screen. The LG G6 (or its weaker sibling Q6) is a great deal. The increasingly daring Xiaomi also has its own bezel-less models (Mi Mix 2), and the famous Sharp continues this trend with models from the Aquos series.

Worth staying longer at Sharp. Although the fashion for screens without transparent frames has emerged only in the last year, the first successful attempts to create such equipment are actually older. Aquos Crystal is a Sharp phone that debuted in 2014 and had a 5-inch frameless screen - it differed from modern models only in a thicker so-called. with a beard at the bottom and a much less impressive resolution ("only" 720 × 1280 pixels), but he was a pioneer. So, you can see that the idea of ​​big screens is definitely not new this year.

Today, among large-screen phones, we have a huge selection of models from a wide variety of brands, so everyone can easily find something for themselves.