Sharp outs Aquos mini SHL24 with the smallest 4.5" 1080p display, ultra compact EDGEST design

I'm not sure how functional it is to have the camera and sensor moved to the bottom. I see myself covering the bottom bezel often (which rarely happens with the top bezel). Having the camera at the bottom may be annoying to quite a few people, too. Another important thing is gaming. This phone has high-end specs. It can games such as Asphalt 8, Dead Trigger 2, Nova 4, Batman something, etc. perfectly. Most of those intensive games are made for landscape mode. It would be totally terrible to play games on this phone. Even on the Nokia Lumia 521 (which has a bottom bezel about 50% bigger than the top bezel), gaming makes my two hands feel odd afterward. It won't be any better on this phone with such small bezel and large bottom bezel. I personally think this phone's design is neither eye-friendly nor functional. It's just different.

You obviously have no idea how to hold a phone in landscape. My device is a Motorola DROID RAZR HD, which has pretty thin top & bottom bezels that aren't even. In my experience, I don't need bezels for any reason when holding my phone in landscape and don't block my pitiful bezels whenever I do. How I do it is I support the bottom edge with my pinky fingers, the back with my third/fourth fingers, and the top edge with my pointers. If I need to adjust my thumb position and feel comfortable, I slide my fingers out a bit. I think that "totally terrible" is a severe overstatement. At worse the offset of one bezel being smaller than the other may make the experience slightly more awkward on the Aquos mini... but you also have to remember that this really isn't a big phone. Compared to your Lumia 521, the bezels are smaller on all sides - including the bottom - because of the bigger screen, and the Aquos mini still manages to be smaller.

It's not like I've only hold only 2 phones in landscape mode in my life, duh. Being uneven like the 521 is already odd. Even your RAZR HD isn't even that badly uneven. Now look again at the picture above. And again, I'm complaining on how big the bottom is and how uneven that display is placed (along with the placement of sensors and camera). When I mentioned landscape mode in my comment, it was all about gaming. You need to read more carefully next time, I guess.

coz Sony just released the Z1 Compact which is a small form factor phone with high end specs. This Sharp phone has a 1080p IGZO display which has a higher PPI than the 720p of the Z1 Compact. Even though it's so much better in specs, I'd go with Sony for the community support on XDA.

its identical exempt for the screen, and this is NOT waterproof and lacks the epic camera plus with 720p screen you get better frame rate because the gnu pushes less pixels the z1 compact wins in every aspect but bezels and pixel density

Of course Sharp is nothing in comparison to Sony when it comes to camera.

If only Sony could work with Sharp on a smartphone...what I would give for that phone!!! Or Sony could buy out Sharp's technology...just like how Samsung bought LG/Panasonic technology for their UHD TVs.

That would be a Miracle!

Too many Apples and Sams going around worldwide so I can understand why they don't wanna compete. They probably make decent money in Japan, though not too much cuz Apple is famous over there.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57572921-37/samsungs-investment-in-sharp-could-prick-apple/ You are right Apple 2 billions investment in Sharp is unconfirmed while Samsung investment is announced.

Wrong again... that´s the bill/invoice Apple had to pay Sharp for all the panels they got from them, that is not investment...., is just parts for the phones and tablets. Investement means you put in maney for research & development, manufacturing upgrades and so on... you not get and invoice for that, just a prefernt treatment with future upcomming products... so again remember to connect your brains to your fingers before you post something...smh...