Comment by Tagbert
8 hours ago
Bezels are useful for devices that you can’t just hold in the flat of your hand. Provides a place to hold on to.
Also, this is an LCD screen. The substrate is rigid. An OLED, like on the iPhone is on a flexible substrate and can be bent at the edges to connect to the circuit board. That lets you put the screen closer to the edge.
I have had phones and tablets with IPS displays with way thinner bezels so that argument is void.
Only on 3 sides I think though? You still need an edge connector on one side (i think)
Yeah, but even on the "thicker" side they're stil way thinner than the current iPad Minis.