A Bezel-less Phone from 2014! - Sharp Aquos Crystal

Modern day smartphones have tiny bezels, but where did this trend start from? Today we are looking at the Sharp Aquos Crystal released in 2014, the pioneer of the bezel-less smartphone! (Except it is actually a Sharp Aquos Crystal 2 from 2015)

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[madonnasplasticsurgery]

I’m glad someone is shining light on this phone. I was sure it was totally forgotten

[mysticyato]

My dad had this phone for a while before he passed away. I saw this video in recommended and was honestly astonished. I had completely forgotten about that until today.

[patrickrodriguez]

The motorized selfie camera is the peak of bezel-less phones for me as I barely take selfies anyway. I have a OnePlus 7 Pro and it can still keep up with current flagships in terms of design. The full screen front really looks more futuristic than some phone with a hole punch.

[VanillaSpooks]

“Sir, please stop licking the display units”

[bestechYtBotBH]

hey, lol, I remember owning the sharp Aquos Crystal for a few months back in around 2014. It was absolutely ahead of it's time!

[tabbycat]

Sharp has always been known for their screens, and their TVs were really good back in the day. I wish that Sharp lead the US Android market back then, imagine a flagship version of this.

[scpactualise]

I never heard first iPhone in 2007. But i found secret known as The LG Prada (LG KE850) was the first smartphone with a capacitive touchscreen made by LG Electronics and designed by Prada was released in January or May 2007. The Prada was announced in December 2006, a month before Apple's iPhone unveiling in January 2007.

[possibly_ben]

honestly i miss bezels, you could actually grab the front of the phone without accidentslly touching the screen, but now all of the front is just screen

[jaaanska]

I still remember being so impressed by the Huawei Mate 10 Pro in 2017. It even smashed the Galaxy S8.
Someday in ~2012 I told friends about how the next step in smartphones would be a full screen front. They laughed. Now we're here.

[LeoAriWibowo]

Ahhhh... my old phone. A phone that can spark conversations with curious people because of its peculiar shape.
But because of its shape, it was really hard to find a case and screen protector for it.

[S己G]

Honestly though, *some* bezel is actually a positive for myself.
When I got my first phone that didn't have top and bottom bezels, I kept accidentally touching it, only on the side that it was smaller at.

[YoutubeWatcher]

Funny how iPhone 3GS' side bezes are smaller than iPhone 12's side bezels.
MKBHD showed this phone back in the day. It was modern looking then, like now. Looks better than any of the new "bezel-less" phones of today (aside of the curved displays which are dying now).
Sharp should make a new one with camera punch hole and bezel-less on all 4 sides. I'll buy that.

[gugubope]

please, companies, i beg you, stop trying to get rid of bezels. give me my holdable phones and square screens back. let my monitor screens survive a small bump on the side without shattering. PLEASE

[nothyperealfr]

A. i will not forgive you
B. for the flappy bird game my trick is to use the animation scalings in the developer settings oh and also this game is hard asf even with the scaling

[KevsOutside]

Why are you showing me a bunch of broken phones

[petertrex]

26:00 this is called "emoper" short for "emotional helper" it is likephone-specific voice assitant thing and acutally slows the phone down considerably because it's always runnig.
and the percentae is "emotion" so if you thrown the phone or be rough with the device, the percetange will go down.
This thing also talks to you when you wake up like Google does now.

[LightningXCE]

I love this phone specifically because it mirrors a lot of the Zune HD design language with the hardware.

The Aquos Crystal is so beautiful but holy crap holding it will absolutely trigger so much stuff on the sides of the screen ahaha

[echoingdespair]

A. I will not forgive you /j
B. Flappy Bird mini game in android 5 is genuinely hard
C. Wish I knew Japanese to make subtitles noting what's on screen
D. Cool phone

[DusableLewis]

I actually owned this phone when I was in middle school and it was the coolest thing ever. I got it on sale at a boost store for like $200. A lot of software didn't understand the camera, but overall it was super futuristic for the time and very ahead of its time.

[Burger_Party]

Sharp Aquos Crystal 2 is a 2015 devices so totally clickbait you do not even change the title?