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Look, Ma, no bezel! Samsung working on a frameless Galaxy B Android handset for Q3

Look, Ma, no bezel! Samsung working on a frameless Galaxy B Android handset for Q3

Posted: 24 Feb 2012, 04:09, by Daniel P.

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Look, Ma, no bezel! Samsung working on a frameless Galaxy B Android handset for Q3

Now this is getting ridiculous - just when one decides to buy an awesome phone he read about yesterday, today comes a rumor about something awesome-er and knocks down yesterday's determination.

Such is the case with the latest rumor, coming out of Korea, that Samsung is almost ready with an Android phone it's been prepping for a while that sports no screen bezel, and might launch it in Q2 or Q3. This coincides with the info we noticed in OLED technology presentations that Q2 will see Samsung's OLED factory switching to mass production methods for new screen types.

Tentatively named Galaxy B, the source says this phone will have a bezel only to host the earpiece and the camera at the top, no side frame, and no buttons underneath it. We don't have to tell you what this means of course - that Samsung might have finally cracked the code how to cram a 5" display into a 4.3" body, or something of that magnitude.

Not to mention that it will probably look futuristic, like those concept videos we've seen here and there, where your device is mostly a screen - we actually used the one from Corning for the thumb.

Samsung certainly has the engineering prowess to pull this off. It has been hammering (litterally) AMOLED displays with plastic substrates, and its investment Corning came out with a Lotus Glass layer for its AMOLED displays, so we have all prerequisites for a frameless screen existence. Read about the benefits of plastic substrate OLEDs in our interview with researcher Michael G. Helander.

Whether this rumor ties with Samsung spokesperson's claim about outing a phone in the first half of this year with flexible OLED display we don't know, but if it does, Samsung will certainly keep the lazy summer months interesting.

source: MK via SammyHub

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1. Guest_star posted on 24 Feb 2012, 05:25 0 0

very nice

2. andro. posted on 24 Feb 2012, 05:40 6 1

Perhaps this is why we haven't heard anything of the galaxy s3 yet,could this be it?

22. remixfa posted on 24 Feb 2012, 12:44 2 0

what better device to push new designs and tech, but their super fueled flagships. I really hope that its in the SGS3. :)

3. RaKithAPeiRiZ posted on 24 Feb 2012, 05:45 1 0

hey this and that CES video image match ..........

4. the_s2 posted on 24 Feb 2012, 05:50 7 0

iFans, where are you? xD

9. PAPINYC posted on 24 Feb 2012, 08:27 1 9

"Sorry, iDoNot understand or relAte; we need large bezels and tiNy lcd's on our iOS deviCes. Can iGet you diRections to the mall? The weather today will be 25° and snow (in MiAmi)."

"……please don't forget to turn me off."

12. cellphonator posted on 24 Feb 2012, 10:13 1 0

BORING, as usual.

29. alx33 posted on 24 Feb 2012, 18:45 2 0

OH MY GOSH JUST STFU PLEASE! THIS ARTICLE DIDNT EVEN MENTION AN APPLE PRODUCT SO PLEASE JUST STFU AND HOP OFF THIS POST!

5. SleepingOz posted on 24 Feb 2012, 06:01 8 0

MIND-BLOWING!

6. cyborg009 posted on 24 Feb 2012, 06:47 0 0

Holy fk...that is unreal !!

7. darac posted on 24 Feb 2012, 07:35 3 0

ok, this will finally kill the iPhone.
not a set of inside features, but this one. it will make any standard phone to look outdated, including the iPhone5.

8. Stinger2U posted on 24 Feb 2012, 08:21 1 0

Although the concept looks great, I can't help but wonder how many accidental presses (touches) this phone will receive. Looks to me that you'll have to learn how to hold this phone in order to avoid any accidental presses. Even though my last two phones had bezels (DUH:-)) if i held them with a tighter grip a piece of my skin would touch the screen ever so slightly, and therefore activate a certain app or function. My personal opinion is that this will be a pain in the ass to use. Of course unless those pesky engineers figure something out :-)

33. bayusuputra posted on 25 Feb 2012, 03:32 0 0

personally, i don't think i will be bothered with the lack of side bezel, other than in tablets where you need some place to rest your fingers.. but in mobile phones, i don't think it will be that troublesome.. but i agree that it may lead to accidental presses.. but from my own experience, it is actually the capacitive buttons that are always accidentally pressed, not the side of the screen, unless you grip it really hard your palm skin is squeezed from the side of the phone to the screen.. but, until now, that will only be an opinion of mine.. i have not used that kind of device, so i could only infer.. but my opinion may change after the device is out and i can play with it.. but so far, that's great news..

36. Captain_Doug posted on 12 Mar 2012, 10:26 0 0

Even with tablets, the bezels currently there are a little too big. I hold a 7-8" tablet with one hand easy(around the back) and then i use my other hand to interact, if i plan on using 2 hands i put it down on a surface. Phones don't need bezels(an outside layer of metal/rubber is fine) 7-8" tablets don't need much and 10" tablets need a good thumb size bezel. That or a handle on the back.... Just kidding.

10. Bluesky02 posted on 24 Feb 2012, 08:45 2 0

My only concern is, will it easily break if fall down?
Yet, it look so amazing!

19. crysiswarmonger posted on 24 Feb 2012, 11:40 0 0

Flexible amoled

Gorilla glass is amazingly strong.

I would worry about finding it... where is that phone.

34. bayusuputra posted on 25 Feb 2012, 03:35 0 0

i don't think so.. there are some phones with glass that are protruding from the body, like the nokia N9/lumia 800, but i don't think they'll break that easily.. especially with protective glass, which should be present in this phone according to the article..

11. serpa4 posted on 24 Feb 2012, 09:24 8 0

It won't be an iPhone killer. People who buy iPhones are after iOS, not cool technology. Otherwise it would have been beat by existing phones. IPhone don't offer anything, technology wise, that current phones don't have.
I'd love the SGSIII with or without the display technology.
Accidental touching can be controled by software like palm check on laptop computer touch pads. Right handed, the finger wrap-around and touching the edge of the screen will look different then the tip of a finger as well as the edge of your thumb touching the screen.

15. sprockkets posted on 24 Feb 2012, 10:46 1 2

"People who buy iPhones are after...."

Looks, man. Looks.

23. MayorMcJustin posted on 24 Feb 2012, 13:01 0 0

People who are after the iPhone are after just that half eaten silver apple on the back of the phone. How many times do you see people with an iphone that is running a rediculously outdated OS. You cant say looks because before the 4, THEY DIDNT DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT.