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when it comes to modern technology minimalism is the name of the game and

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the lightweight sleek devices we use today look nothing like the clunky boxes

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of yesteryear however there is still one

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very noticeable limitation in humanity's quest to build the most futuristic

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looking gadgets possible bezels those bulky frames that surround our screens

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and that companies seem to be tripping over themselves to get rid of not just

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for a sexier aesthetic but also to cram as much screen real estate as possible

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into smaller and smaller packages but whether we're talking about a phone a

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monitor or a tv it seems like bezels are

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still a necessity for the time being but why to answer we reached out to

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sashacron at ASUS a manufacturer of all three of those product categories and

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we'd like to thank him for providing us with an assist on this video let's start

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with the simplest reason that we still have bezels the edges of modern lcd and

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led displays need to be protected because they're made up of multiple

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layers that need to be sealed up somehow i mean think of trying to take a triple

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decker sandwich home from the deli without wrapping it up in plastic first

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but that's not the end of it beyond structural protection and support it

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turns out that bezels often house the equipment that drives the display itself

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such as circuits and traces that run up

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to the screen and if you're talking about a monitor these components are

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often stored in the bottom bezel that's why that particular one is usually quite

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a bit bigger now it is certainly possible to put the

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components behind the display but this can add a fair amount of thickness which

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may impact the product's appeal to consumers but okay

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hold on a second Linus my smartphone has super thin bezels and doesn't even have

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a gigantic chin why can't they just do whatever they're

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doing in smartphones well part of why phones get all the love is out of

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necessity phones obviously have a greater need to be more portable than

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other everyday electronics so it makes sense that quite a bit more work has

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gone into eliminating phone bezels versus the ones on monitors or tvs

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and phones have the added benefit of receiving extra structural support from

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having the logic board and the battery built in there's also an economic reason

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profit margins on phone displays are quite a bit higher than on monitors

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laptops and tvs because panels get produced in large batches which means

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that you can make many more phones from one batch than you can larger displays

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also phones tend to be relatively expensive for their size meaning that

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manufacturers can invest more in developing ways to reduce their bezel's

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footprint so some phones have their screens

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partially folded around the edge so that the part of the screen that needs

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protecting is tucked underneath the phone's back cover allowing for narrower

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bezels in some cases this can actually be clearly seen from the outside such as

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with samsung's galaxy edge series other times the panel drivers can actually be

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folded behind the display something that is much more difficult to do on a gaming

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laptop you see quickly switching pixels

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on and off to get high refresh rates and

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fast pixel response times requires a lot of current which means thicker wires or

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traces are required to carry it now on phones these factors tend not to matter

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as much so manufacturers can get away with using thin traces that are easier

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to fold not so on something like a gaming laptop

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so all of this has meant that we look to be on a slow march towards phones with

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very very minimal bezels even phones that are nearly all screens such as

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xiaomi's concept mix alpha but as for

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the larger displays well it's certainly possible to make a

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very thin bezel out of a transparent material like glass so that it's less

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obvious but to get a truly bezel-free display

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the most promising technology right now looks like micro lead you can learn more

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about that up here but it can get away without using bezels because the

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circuitry that drives the leds is embedded in an extremely thin substrate

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that forms part of the display itself so it doesn't need the bezels either for

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structural support or to hold electronic components of course if you really want

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a bezel-free display experience right this second you could always just go out

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