Best budget phones with (near) bezel-less displays The smartphone industry is a notoriously fickle beast where bold innovations are just a few fatal steps away from becoming the latest flash-in-the-pan gimmick. Every now and again though, there’s a design quirk that sticks the landing and becomes an overnight game-changer. In 2017, that honor undoubtedly goes to bezel-less (or near-bezel-less) displays. While doing away with unsightly bezels isn’t a brand new idea in the mobile sphere, this year it has firmly hit the mainstream, with Android behemoths Samsung and LG going almost all screen with their next-generation Galaxy and G series flagships – not to mention the Andy Rubin-backed newcomer Essential and its debut smartphone, the PH-1 . With the number of OEMs moving away from traditional “chin and forehead” phones increasing with every passing announcement, it seems only a matter of time before bezel-less smartphones take over the (mobile) world f...