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JingDong Dphone borderless phone coming this December

AbbieOctober 31, 2014

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.

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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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Abbie
Abbie is a self confessed Chinese phone addict! After cutting her teeth on the Meizu M9 she hasn't been able to keep away from Chinese phones keeping her ear to the ground especially for the latest Shanzhai and clone news!

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.

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!
Lerel Ashley
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.
Qwerty
October 31, 2014
The design above looks amazing.
i really like matte upper and lower bezels and the sharp edges.
Qwerty
October 31, 2014
Why is the text in dutch?

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.
Faux-News
October 31, 2014
- 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!
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.

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
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
  - 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.
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.

Guest
November 1, 2014
The design above looks amazing.
i really like matte upper and lower bezels and the sharp edges.
Guest
November 1, 2014
Why is the text in dutch?
Faux-News
November 1, 2014
not too optimistic.
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)
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

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.
fangbanger
November 1, 2014
so the image is just a render… phones will never look that cool.

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.
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.

Krzysztof S.
November 1, 2014
- Krzystof S.Hitler mark 2
  November 1, 2014
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)
fangbanger
November 1, 2014
so the image is just a render… phones will never look that cool.
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.

Krzysztof S.
November 1, 2014
- Guest
  November 1, 2014
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 …
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

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…
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 …

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
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…

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…
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…

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