Tecno unveils concept phone with virtually no screen bezel
Budget brand Tecno has built a concept smartphone called Bezelless with a screen that appears to have no visible bezel at all. The device will never go on sale, but demonstrates the technology is possible.
A decade ago, smartphone makers were racing to shrink screen bezels, but progress largely stalled once borders reached roughly a millimeter on most devices. Tecno, a budget brand under the same group as Itel and Infinix, used IFA in Berlin to show that going further is technically achievable.
The resulting device, called the Bezelless, is purely a concept phone that will never be sold, but it proves the point: a screen can run edge to edge with no visible inactive border. Only when viewed at an angle can a faint black line be spotted in the corners.
How it works
The design relies on two layers of cover glass: the top layer extends only to the edge of the screen, while a lower glass layer and the OLED panel itself extend beneath the surrounding frame, hiding the display's inactive edge. Building the phone this way required an unusual approach — mounting the screen from the rear of the device and securing it from the front with a custom adhesive between the frame and the lower glass. As a result, the frame itself is slightly thicker than on typical phones, though the overall border remains thinner than on devices like the Samsung Galaxy S26 Plus.
The 6.78-inch OLED display runs at a 144Hz refresh rate with 1.5K resolution. The phone is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 7400e chipset with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, alongside a 6,000mAh battery. On the back are two cameras — a 50-megapixel main sensor and an 8-megapixel ultrawide — plus a 32-megapixel front camera. The rear also features a 3D butterfly design that shifts appearance depending on the angle of light.
The Bezelless joins a string of unconventional concepts Tecno has shown recently, including a phone with a color-changing E Ink back and another with built-in neon lighting. None of these concepts have reached production, and the Bezelless is unlikely to either. Still, it demonstrates that a truly borderless screen is achievable, raising the question of whether another manufacturer — possibly even Apple, long rumored to be working on an edge-to-edge iPhone — might eventually bring the idea to market.
