mobile phones have been around for quite
a long time now the first commercially
available handset the Motorola DynaTAC
was released nearly a decade before I
was born
in the year 1984 that's the same year
that Apple introduced the Macintosh
would you look at that now by today's
standards the DynaTAC I mean look at
this thing it looks hilarious it's huge
but it was the beginning of an important
industry that would forever change the
world as time went on handsets got
smaller and smaller and SMS messaging
took the world by storm I was one of the
first kids at my junior high school to
get a cell phone a 13-page grade 7 right
and it was the legendary Nokia 68 xx
which had this awesome fold-out QWERTY
keyboard though I admittedly mostly used
t9 because who didn't use t9 it was
three to six five to 76 the blackberry
revolution began in the business world
around the same time I got my first
phone the early 2000s and can largely be
attributed the title along with the Palm
Treo as the world's first mass-market
smartphone however what we consider
smartphones today what we actually have
in our pockets in 2018 really traces its
roots back to January 2007 an iPod a
phone and an Internet communicator an
iPod a phone
these are not three separate devices
this is one device
and we are calling it iPhone no matter
how much you love or hate Apple it is an
undeniable fact that the first
generation iPhone changed not just the
smartphone market but the course of
human history it was a black swan think
of 2007 compared to today the way we
read about about news the way we
communicate the way we conduct business
it is all changed now Google had been
working on a competitor to BlackBerry OS
before the iPhone was announced however
reports indicate that this Android OS
have heard of it drastically changed
direction once Google got word of
Apple's iPhone OS and the first Android
flagship at least in the Android car
nation we know today the HTC dream was
announced a little more than a year and
a half after the first iPhone and the
rest well its history through the years
there have been a number of crazy and
weird designs and ideas but until very
recently smartphones largely had a
striking resemblance to the original
iPhone heck the iPhone 8 plus released
just last year Dwarfs the 2007 flagship
but the design similarities between the
two are striking and that's more than 10
years later and that's not just with
Apple phones the same holds true with a
lot of Android handsets from up till a
couple of years ago but as you may have
noticed recent smartphones look
drastically different from the last 10
years of phones we've had and
comparatively very futuristic because we
now live in a not cheat knotch world
where phone makers are rapidly racing
towards creating the first mass-market
bezel free phone and we are very close
devices like the vivo necks and the Oppo
find X are nearly all screen and they
hide the cameras in a motorized
mechanism now only time will tell if
this is going to be a reliable
convenient and power friendly solution
personally I doubt that the likes of
Samsung and Apple will compromise on
reliability and quality with something
like this until they can really pretty
much hide everything in display but
regardless these phones not only know Oh
inspiration to the first iPhone but also
to the first bezel-less phone no not the
iPhone 10 no not the essential phone no
not even the 2016 Xiaomi me mix the
first bezel this phone was this the
sharp aquos crystal release
nearly four years ago in October 2014 as
a $150 offf contract prepaid phone yeah
you are that right even by today's
standards the design of the a post
crystal is rather striking all
smartphones will try to perform optical
illusions to make you think that the
bezels are smaller than they really are
Samsung has historically curved their
displays Apple curves the glass on the
iPhone 10 however a sharp decided to
slope and square off the plastic screen
at the corners and it creates this
really trippy but very cool 3d effect
and I think it hides the inset LED panel
really well even all these years later
the bezel still look thinner than pretty
much any phone on the market now when
this phone was released people made fun
of it for having a huge chin but it's
really not that big
it just looks massive because of the
really really thin bezels up top in fact
it's nearly the same size as the iPhone
8's bottom chin a phone that is not even
a year old and it packs in a heck of a
lot more tech it's where the
front-facing camera the ambient light
sensor and the LED are all integrated
having the 1.3 megapixel front-facing
camera at the bottom of the phone is
weird as you might expect
so the phone actually instructs you to
flip it upside down to take your low res
selfies in all their glory a little
strange to hit that $150 price point
it's obvious that sharp had to cut
several corners the screen was an
unremarkable oversaturated 720p TFT
display and the entire phone was plastic
no metal or glass inside not even the
screen that said the plastic
construction was important for the
direct wave receiver as sharp called it
you'll notice that there isn't a
traditional earpiece speaker instead
sharp use this direct wave receiver to
vibrate the plastic phone assembly which
created sound waves for the calls it
also meant that you could put your ear
anywhere on the phone and still hear the
caller on the other line and it wasn't a
loud speaker either it was still private
it was very neat the specs however well
they weren't it had a Snapdragon 400 SOC
which was the same chip being used
inside of smartwatches in 2014 1.5 gigs
of ram 8 gigabytes of internal storage
pretty lousy cameras a
Yuni 2040 milliamp hour battery and it
also shipped running an outdated version
of Android KitKat feels like Dante's
Inferno in here at the end of the day
the sharp equals crystal is not a phone
that most people will remember or even
know about but that doesn't make it any
less impressive for a phone released in
2014
especially for a hundred and fifty
dollars and I don't know about you but I
think that it may have been a source of
inspiration for other manufacturers to
begin developing their own bezel this
phones which we now enjoy today and will
continue to enjoy in the future big a
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