Sharp's AQUOS Crystal is all screen!
 

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http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/19/s...is-all-screen/

Re: Sharp's AQUOS Crystal is all screen!
 

There is also a better device called Aquos Crystal X, but sold only in Japan:

5,5 inch screen full HD, Quad Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (2.3 GHz), GPU Adreno 330 (578 Mhz), 2 GB RAM and 32 GB internal storage.

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With capacitive screens bezel-less design is rubbish. :(

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You'll better get used to it! That bottom bezel is going to disappear soon to! Change is a comin'!

Final form
Halfway there

Opinion about phone: love it! Put some Sailfish in there, make it taste real good! Hmhmmmm

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Waow !
did you just copy/paste the engadget article

so much for the respect of copyrights and licences on a site that is supposed to promote open source licences ...
If you want open source licences associated with your favorite softwares to be respected, start by respecting the work of others !

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I realise a lot of people here are probably living in a bit of a timewarp and still glued to their N800, but which ultra slim bezel phone have you recently had a problem with? None I'm guessing.

I've played with a Sharp Aquos Zeta (Docomo version of these Softbank phones with very slightly larger bezels) that a friend brought back from Japan. The screen is insanely accurate.

+1 to seeing this with Sailfish on it.

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Hmm, while I agree that a capacitive without a bezel would be a nightmare to hold and operate, the phone IMHO looks really ugly without a bezel.

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I just recently picked up an HTC One M8 (mainly because I wanted to get into writing apps for Android). A beautiful phone, indeed! However, this was the order of events when I first tried to pick it up:

1) Whoosh! This phone is slick. Literally. Slipped right out of my hand the first time I tried to pick it up. I'm used to my N900, which fits neatly in the palm of my hand; this thing is too big for that, so I needed to get used to curling my fingers around the edges in order to get enough of a grip on it.

2) Whoops! This thing has no bezel; every time I curled my fingers around it, I kept starting apps or randomly executing tasks in the currently running app. What I really needed to do was not to curl my fingers around the phone, but instead just hold the edges more tightly with my fingertips.

3) OUCH! As is the current fashion, this phone is wafer-thin. Maybe I'm just getting old, but gripping the edges of this thing tightly really hurts. (I can't wait until they start producing phones that can also shave your beard.) So, what I really needed to do was not to hold the phone tightly with my fingertips, but rather hold it lightly with my fingertips.

4) Whoosh! This phone is slick...

I've slowly started figuring out a method to successfully keep this phone in my hand without killing myself, but I have to admit I spend much more time admiring it sitting on the desk than admiring it in my hand. :)

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I would put this down to transitioning from an N900 to a thin, thin bezeled, massive screened keyboardless Android phone.

Unless you have tiny or incredibly greasy hands, I doubt you'll have too much of a problem in future.

Anyway, the Sharp is square edged and thicker. You wouldn't have the same issue.

Edit: Also, some people do struggle to hold phones anyway. Why not just get one of the rubberised cases like the standard one that came with the N9 (which has to go down as the most slippery phone ever made).

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Well, I've discovered that I'd still prefer a smaller device, at least if I'm going to use it as a telephone. While it is downright beautiful, it's also downright ungainly; holding this huge plate of glass up against my head is just never going to be as comfortable as would a smaller device.

(And, btw, it turns out that having sweaty hands is actually the key to getting a grip on an HTC One. :) If your hands are clean and dry, the phone will slip out of your grasp as quickly as if it were a bar of soap...)

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See my edit re: cases.

Also, the phone you now have is huge. The Sharp in question is much more pocketable .. it's a full 15mm shorter. One of the things about having effectively no bezels on 3 sides is that you can pack a big screen into a relatively small package ... compare this to the Jolla, which I have - not a big screen, but biggish package because of huge bezels.

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Ah, well, the idea of making this phone even wider than it is now is kind of off-putting. :) I've been looking into it, though...

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If you can't get used to it, swap it for the smaller and cheaper Google (LG) Nexus 5. It might be more to your tastes anyway, since many more developers have it, and what looks like being a very strong Sailfish port is coming along, as is Ubuntu Phone (though the latter has disappointed me on my Nexus 4).

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Ah, I did look at the Nexus phones, but (so far as I could tell) they don't yet feature an infrared port. (I'm working on porting my "Pierogi" infrared control app to Android...)

I don't really mind having an ungainly Android phone, as I'm still using my N900 for most of my daily mobile computing needs.