I held the first truly bezel-free phone

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/tecno-bezelless-concept-01.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cast your mind back a decade or so, and smartphone makers were <em>obsessed</em> with shrinking the bezel on phones. Screens got bigger, the black bars around them got smaller, and for a while it looked like truly edge-to-edge displays were imminent. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Then, progress just stopped. The bezel shrunk down until it was a millimeter or so on every side, on just about every phone, and phone manufacturers seemed to agree as one that this was probably far enough. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Tecno, a budget brand in the same family as Itel and Infinix, has stepped up to see if it could push things just a little further. Its new device, the Bezelless, is strictly a concept phone, never …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/985009/tecno-bezelless-concept-phone-ifa">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>