The interesting problem with mobile devices is to get the most big display whithin a small and still mobile device. 5,5" is quite huge to fit into a (front) pocket. Jolla phone already is uncomfortable enough to carry around. Chen decided to go for a 5,5" display for his reasons, so a remaining parameter is the bezel around the display. In order to minimize the bezel around the device other interfaces/sensors have to be moved elsewhere.

Searching for solutions or compromises was my intention, not having a shiny or "cool" display without bezel. A phablet with keyboard will be no use for me, because I wouldn't carry around such an uncomfortable thing with me all the time. For this purpuse subnotebooks exist :-)

As pichlo mentioned, having no camera on the same side as the display is indeed a problem for video calls. So this was a dump idea.

Another point is the increased fragility of borderless displays, according to biketool. If a bigger bezel would help here I don't know. Usually I avoid dropping my stuff. I agreee that additional bumper cases are s**t.

True, but the closed device will certainly be thick enough to hold the device avoiding unwanted touch actions.

Thanks :-)

I interprete your answer as "Be grateful Chen tries to give us such a device and avoid to endanger its creation by demanding too much". Yes, I have to agree with you. As Chen did not react to these ideas, it seems that he agrees with you, too.

No need to apologize. You want to be sure that the project succeeds. I doubt, that our discussion will decide anything. Still it makes sense, as it could give Chen an idea, what might be possible or wanted by the potential customers.

What makes me wonder: Will an already existing case or housing be modified or will it be designed and produced from scratch? I guess this is a real tremendous task! A few here will remember the unfortunate story with the alternative N900 back case, won't you?