JingDong Dphone borderless phone coming this December


jingdong dphone

Details surfaced today that Chinese E-commerce site Jingdong are working to produce their own bezel-less Dphone for a launch in December.

It has long been a great for phone fanatics around the world to have a phone completely removed of bezels to the left and right of the screen. Sure enough bezels have gotten slimmer and we have finally witnessed the first borderless phone when Sharp unveiled the Aquos Crystal, and soon we will have an another model to choose from.

E-commerce giant JingDong have teamed up with an unknown manufacturing partner to produce their own Dphone Android smartphone scheduled to go on sale ahead of the Chinese holidays this December.

Company execs haven’t speculated on the phone specs only that it will boast a 5.3-inch display yet remain narrower than the iPhone 4S, a bold claim and one we wonder if they can actually live up to.

Do you think developing a borderless phone is what manufacturers should be focusing on?

Thanks to Simon for the tip.

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52 Comments

  1. October 31, 2014

    Borderless … Hmmm, surely would love to have a phone like that if it has a good hardware and well optimised OS to go with.

  2. ufg
    October 31, 2014

    LG just unveiled a 5·3″ panel with 0·7mm bezels… hmmm

    • antidumb
      November 1, 2014

      just a panel kind of bullshit when it comes with the other smartphone part
      sharp already makes it. Aquos crystal is awesome!

  3. October 31, 2014

    If specs are good and they update the phone with support but specs must be seen first and aren’t money oriented only like oppo then I’ll go for it.

  4. Qwerty
    October 31, 2014

    The design above looks amazing.
    i really like matte upper and lower bezels and the sharp edges.

  5. Qwerty
    October 31, 2014

    Why is the text in dutch?

  6. Michael Ogbonnaya
    October 31, 2014

    Borderless … Hmmm, surely would love to have a phone like that if it has a good hardware and well optimised OS to go with.

  7. Faux-News
    October 31, 2014

    not too optimistic.

  8. ufg
    November 1, 2014

    LG just unveiled a 5·3″ panel with 0·7mm bezels… hmmm

    • Guest
      November 1, 2014

      just a panel kind of bullshit when it comes with the other smartphone part
      sharp already makes it. Aquos crystal is awesome!

  9. Lerel Ashley
    November 1, 2014

    If specs are good and they update the phone with support but specs must be seen first and aren’t money oriented only like oppo then I’ll go for it.

  10. njren
    November 1, 2014

    Photo “for illustration purposes only”? Can’t otherwise imagine why the Apple logo is engraved on the home button.

    • Airyl
      November 1, 2014

      I’m guessing so.

  11. TheOracle
    November 1, 2014

    Ho hum! Would be nice to see the specs as others have said but bezels and 5mm phones aren’t what we’re looking for anymore. BATTERY!

    • Airyl
      November 1, 2014

      Why can’t bezels and battery coexist?

      • TheOracle
        November 1, 2014

        They certainly can but it seems that form is overtaking function with manufacturers. There’s nothing useful about our phones if they don’t have practical battery life. Give me a 9-10mm 5-5.5″ phone with a 6,000mah battery and mid range specs and It’ll beat anything on the market today.

        • max
          November 1, 2014

          well, you might not be a guru about marketing then.
          Apple sold billions of phones with no battery life at all.
          Pretty phones sell better and faster than good practical phones,and i’m not talking about apple only.Even chinese clones sell better than ugly big battery-equipped phones.

          • TheOracle
            November 1, 2014

            I’m certainly no marketing guru but most consumer surveys these days show that battery life is the number one demand of smartphone users.

  12. realjjj
    November 1, 2014

    Why would you post some random iphone concept pic ( it even has the Apple logo on the home button) that is not even bezelesss, and has huge upper and lower bezels?
    And than there is no mathematical way for a 16:9 5.3 inch screen to be narrower than the iphone 4s, the most it can be is slightly wider than the iphone 6.

  13. Guest
    November 1, 2014

    The design above looks amazing.
    i really like matte upper and lower bezels and the sharp edges.

  14. Guest
    November 1, 2014

    Why is the text in dutch?

  15. Faux-News
    November 1, 2014

    not too optimistic.

  16. Jason45
    November 1, 2014

    Most likely the 5.3 inch display just announced by LG. Hopefully, the other specs are great too for a relatively low price (below 2000 yuan)

  17. Guest
    November 1, 2014

    Photo “for illustration purposes only”? Can’t otherwise imagine why the Apple logo is engraved on the home button.

    • Airyl
      November 1, 2014

      I’m guessing so.

  18. TheOracle
    November 1, 2014

    Ho hum! Would be nice to see the specs as others have said but bezels and 5mm phones aren’t what we’re looking for anymore. BATTERY!

    • Airyl
      November 1, 2014

      Why can’t bezels and battery coexist?

    • TheOracle
      November 1, 2014

      They certainly can but it seems that form is overtaking function with manufacturers. There’s nothing useful about our phones if they don’t have practical battery life. Give me a 9-10mm 5-5.5″ phone with a 6,000mah battery and mid range specs and It’ll beat anything on the market today.

    • Guest
      November 1, 2014

      well, you might not be a guru about marketing then.
      Apple sold billions of phones with no battery life at all.
      Pretty phones sell better and faster than good practical phones,and i’m not talking about apple only.Even chinese clones sell better than ugly big battery-equipped phones.

    • TheOracle
      November 1, 2014

      I’m certainly no marketing guru but most consumer surveys these days show that battery life is the number one demand of smartphone users.

  19. fangbanger
    November 1, 2014

    so the image is just a render… phones will never look that cool.

  20. realjjj
    November 1, 2014

    Why would you post some random iphone concept pic ( it even has the Apple logo on the home button) that is not even bezelesss, and has huge upper and lower bezels?
    And than there is no mathematical way for a 16:9 5.3 inch screen to be narrower than the iphone 4s, the most it can be is slightly wider than the iphone 6.

  21. Angry Mobile Nerd
    November 1, 2014

    Amazon tried to do their own phone and it’s turning out to be the fail of 2014. If anything JD should maybe do a cheap tablet like how Tesco did, but I wouldn’t do a phone.

    • Jason45
      November 1, 2014

      If the pricing is right, there is always a market in China. Amazon phone was too high priced and I believe the specs were not that great either.

  22. Krzysztof S.
    November 1, 2014

    Say Hello To Ching Chang Chong Ding Dong Phone

    • Krzystof S.Hitler mark 2
      November 1, 2014

      shut the f*** up c**t face.

  23. Jason45
    November 1, 2014

    Most likely the 5.3 inch display just announced by LG. Hopefully, the other specs are great too for a relatively low price (below 2000 yuan)

  24. fangbanger
    November 1, 2014

    so the image is just a render… phones will never look that cool.

  25. Angry Mobile Nerd
    November 1, 2014

    Amazon tried to do their own phone and it’s turning out to be the fail of 2014. If anything JD should maybe do a cheap tablet like how Tesco did, but I wouldn’t do a phone.

    • Jason45
      November 1, 2014

      If the pricing is right, there is always a market in China. Amazon phone was too high priced and I believe the specs were not that great either.

  26. Krzysztof S.
    November 1, 2014

    Say Hello To Ching Chang Chong Ding Dong Phone

    • Guest
      November 1, 2014

      shut the f*** up c**t face.

  27. claude
    November 1, 2014

    Personnally i hate thin boards… when I hold my phone, the boards are so thin that my fingers touch the screen, and click on functions that i dt want…Borddless is nice to see maybe, but awful on using …

  28. Tony starks
    November 1, 2014

    Fake? It’s in Dutch and has Dutch news apps installed… Nothing Chinese here

    • Joren
      November 3, 2014

      and an apple logo at the bottom, how could that be fake? :/
      they say it in the article, almost nothing of the phone is known so far, so they just used a random pictore of a besel-less phone

  29. Thor Jane
    November 1, 2014

    After Samsung made Note Edge this is kinda the second step. One day it will be usual. But I don’t like this phone. Come on look at it. Even if they did this first it looks awful. Why the apple on button? Shame…

  30. Guest
    November 1, 2014

    Personnally i hate thin boards… when I hold my phone, the boards are so thin that my fingers touch the screen, and click on functions that i dt want…Borddless is nice to see maybe, but awful on using …

  31. Guest
    November 1, 2014

    Fake? It’s in Dutch and has Dutch news apps installed… Nothing Chinese here

    • Guest
      November 3, 2014

      and an apple logo at the bottom, how could that be fake? :/
      they say it in the article, almost nothing of the phone is known so far, so they just used a random pictore of a besel-less phone

  32. Thor Jane
    November 1, 2014

    After Samsung made Note Edge this is kinda the second step. One day it will be usual. But I don’t like this phone. Come on look at it. Even if they did this first it looks awful. Why the apple on button? Shame…

  33. thelion
    November 2, 2014

    It’s physically wrong the possibility of a 5.3 “diagonal in 58.6mm in width (like 4s or 5s). A maximum of 6 in width that is 67mm whereas there might be half a mm on each side that’s not so much the LG 0.7mm solution. Of course, is to add the ‘frame’ of the body…

  34. thelion
    November 2, 2014

    It’s physically wrong the possibility of a 5.3 “diagonal in 58.6mm in width (like 4s or 5s). A maximum of 6 in width that is 67mm whereas there might be half a mm on each side that’s not so much the LG 0.7mm solution. Of course, is to add the ‘frame’ of the body…