LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest

SmartAboutThings (1951032) writes "LG Display has announced that it has developed a 5.3-inch Full HD LCD panel for smartphones with the world's narrowest bezel at 0.7mm. It's even thinner than a credit card, making the screen give you the impression that it 'overflows.' The company calls the construction Neo Edge technology; it uses an adhesive instead of double-sided tape to attach and seal the panel's circuit board and backlight unit.

Comments

Drop test?

[CaptainStumpy]

Being the world's thinnest ain't worth crap if it shatters when the wind blows. How strong is this .7mm bezel?

Re:Drop test?

[stephanruby]

Being the world's thinnest ain't worth crap if it shatters when the wind blows. How strong is this .7mm bezel?

As a proud owner of an LG G2 (their last flagship device before the G3), I can attest that the G2 feels like a precious jewel and is super fragile. I dropped it only once (before getting a cover for it, and that made a small chip to the glass bezel). And I actually know a few people with G2s and all those people I know have gotten covers for their G2s for the same reason I did, because the device chipped so easily.

Compare that to the Sony Experia Z Ultra, I let my nephews play with that one, and it must have been dropped 30 times without even as much as a scratch on it (which is really surprising, that device looks super fragile too).

That being said, the last time I had to replace a screen digitizer on an LG, a model before the G2, it cost me $30 to buy a replacement digitizer and change the digitizer myself (following a detailed youtube video). Try to do the same on a Samsung Note, and the replacement digitizer will cost you more than $150 because it uses Wacom technology. Or try to do the same with an iPhone, and I suspect that it will cost a lot as well since most people I know who have iPhones with broken screens don't bother to replace the screen at all (if they don't have the extra insurance to begin with).

Re: Drop test?

[ArcadeMan]

Nintendo DSi owner here. Dropped the damn thing over 100 times. Still working.

Re:Unintentional touch events

[rrohbeck]

Yeah that's pretty useless for a phone. But I'd looove this tech in the next set of large monitors for my multimonitor setup.

Narrowest *LCD* bezel

[timeOday]

OLED doesn't particularly need a bezel, by design. Here is a 55" TV with a 1mm bezel.

Re:Narrowest *LCD* bezel

[Skylinux]

Great but the image stops way short of the bezel. What good is a 1mm bezel if the image stops 5mm before it in every direction?

Usability Nightmare

[bill_mcgonigle]

News for LG - some people, nay - lots of people - put their so-beautiful-we-can-hardly-stand-it LG phones in cases.

I run a GS4 for a daily driver, and it has as thin, but not micro-thin bezel. If I'm selecting some text that goes to the edge of the screen, I still have to pull back the silicone "layer 1" the wraps just around the edge.

This is not a good feature.

Maybe the new LG is shatter proof and waterproof, though, in which case I withdraw my criticism. I would never be so cynical as to suggest that making cases impossible to use would improve profits through increased unit accidental destruction.

Narrow Bezel vs. Thin

[TechyImmigrant]

Narrow bezels are nice.
Thin cases are very, very poor tradeoff.

Twice as thin == 1/3 of the potential battery volume, bendgate and a less robust design.
I'd love my Nexus 5 to be a couple of mm thicker with the extra volume filled with battery. I expect there are some iphone6 owners in the same spot.

Am I the only one who doesn't care?

[Ihlosi]

Am I the only one who doesn't care about ever-thinner cellphones/smartphones? They're just getting harder to hold and use, and easier to break.

Re:Am I the only one who doesn't care?

[narcc]

Judging from the comments above? Nope.

Personally? I'll take easy-to-hold, larger batter, or no-accidental-touches over thinness any day.

Re:Phone Case?

[greenfruitsalad]

how will this work with fingers? i had a phone with narrow bezel (galaxy s4) and could not use it. it always assumed i was tapping the sides of screen with my palm, thumb, etc.. there was just no non-interfering way of holding it securely. when i got a case for it, the opposite happened - i could not tap on anything close to the edge. i got rid of it.

Re:Phone Case?

[ArcadeMan]

Phones are still in their "just because we can do it doesn't mean we should" phase.

Thinnest vs battery life, touch-screen displays that to up to the edge vs usability, etc.

Re:Can some doctor please...

[ArcadeMan]

This is just a job for the marketing department. Instead of pushing for thin phones vs their competitors, they should be pushing for battery life. Then the competitors will also need to push for battery life. Imagine an iPhone 6+ with the thickness and the curved back of an old iPhone 3GS. The battery life would probably be at least twice of what it is now.