A Bezel-less Phone from 2014! - Sharp Aquos Crystal

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3 ай бұрын

Modern day smartphones have tiny bezels, but where did this trend start from? Today we are looking at the Sharp Aquos Crystal released in 2014, the pioneer of the bezel-less smartphone! (Except it is actually a Sharp Aquos Crystal 2 from 2015)
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@madonnasplasticsurgery 3 ай бұрын

I’m glad someone is shining light on this phone. I was sure it was totally forgotten

@martinidream100 3 ай бұрын

Someone sure as hell shined a light on that iPhone...

@rubiigen 3 ай бұрын

What? @@martinidream100

@AshLordCurry 3 ай бұрын

When this phone came out it felt so futuristic, I still remember this phone it was so revolutionary (like the Royole Flexpai but more interesting)

@davidleeashkenazi8992 3 ай бұрын

Nahhh

@deltaechomusicnh555 3 ай бұрын

It was forgotten cause no one cares about it.

@patrickrodriguez8797 3 ай бұрын

The motorized selfie camera is the peak of bezel-less phones for me as I barely take selfies anyway. I have a OnePlus 7 Pro and it can still keep up with current flagships in terms of design. The full screen front really looks more futuristic than some phone with a hole punch.

@topg2820 Ай бұрын

Yeah the World went backwards, Redmagic 9 Pro/+ is the only worthy phone now

@bestechYtBotBH 3 ай бұрын

hey, lol, I remember owning the sharp Aquos Crystal for a few months back in around 2014. It was absolutely ahead of it's time!

@thenonverified1368 Ай бұрын

months?

@Minimal_M 22 күн бұрын

@@thenonverified1368Sounded like bs to me lol

@scpactualise 3 ай бұрын

I never heard first iPhone in 2007. But i found secret known as The LG Prada (LG KE850) was the first smartphone with a capacitive touchscreen made by LG Electronics and designed by Prada was released in January or May 2007. The Prada was announced in December 2006, a month before Apple's iPhone unveiling in January 2007.

@wolfgang8236 3 ай бұрын

No way, I can't believe that apple is lying on me or something

@LambdaMiscellaneous 3 ай бұрын

Wrong, it was announced after the iPhone AND Released after the iPhone. So no, you didn’t found secret.

@pringlesdomain4862 3 ай бұрын

@@LambdaMiscellaneous What do you mean Wrong. You haven't heard about The LG Prada. Go search for LG Prada it's was real is not fake it's true. you brainwashed

@wolfgang8236 3 ай бұрын

@@LambdaMiscellaneous What do you mean Wrong. I search it's was true but it is real is not fake. Go learn for Wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada?wprov=sfla1

@Bonifacio-ld1mc 3 ай бұрын

@@LambdaMiscellaneous the hell you mean. yes it's right, he/she found secret. you didn't know about LG prada and i searching it. it is real was definitely true is not fake. Go search and read then prove yourself. you brainwashed

@possibly_ben 3 ай бұрын

honestly i miss bezels, you could actually grab the front of the phone without accidentslly touching the screen, but now all of the front is just screen

@Sand2Go 3 ай бұрын

Honestly though, *some* bezel is actually a positive for myself. When I got my first phone that didn't have top and bottom bezels, I kept accidentally touching it, only on the side that it was smaller at.

@ahtesham8340 2 ай бұрын

Bezzels gets so annoying while playing games

@jaaanska 3 ай бұрын

I still remember being so impressed by the Huawei Mate 10 Pro in 2017. It even smashed the Galaxy S8. Someday in ~2012 I told friends about how the next step in smartphones would be a full screen front. They laughed. Now we're here.

@EternalArrow 2 ай бұрын

I love how people call iphone's screen "symmetrical" and bazel-less even though there is a huge damn "notch" or "island" on top of it and at the same time dismissively look at android phones "chin" and hole punch and call it "asymmetrical", "bezels are not even" even though chin's are much thinner and hole punches are much smaller. Kinda ridiculous.

@calicored3076 Ай бұрын

Exactly!!! Lol

@VanillaSpooks 3 ай бұрын

“Sir, please stop licking the display units”

@MinecraftMadman69 2 ай бұрын

No. I will lick until no more lick can no longer lick.

@NekroWareOfficial 2 ай бұрын

😣😵

@CasioMaker Ай бұрын

Heh, that's a phrase I had to use when I worked retail back in 2017

@Tyyrantt Ай бұрын

@CasioMaker can you explain bro I'm lost on what it means

@CasioMaker Ай бұрын

@@Tyyrantt The store I used to work for, had its fair share of problems regarding safety, so every once in a while, you had to fend off people out of their meds or junkies trying to steal display units, demo materials and so on. By the end of my period working there, the manager had to post a security guard just for the specific section I used to work, just in case.

@mysticyato7082 Ай бұрын

My dad had this phone for a while before he passed away. I saw this video in recommended and was honestly astonished. I had completely forgotten about that until today.

@petertrex 3 ай бұрын

26:00 this is called "emoper" short for "emotional helper" it is likephone-specific voice assitant thing and acutally slows the phone down considerably because it's always runnig. and the percentae is "emotion" so if you thrown the phone or be rough with the device, the percetange will go down. This thing also talks to you when you wake up like Google does now.

@Totallynotmwa Ай бұрын

I thought it was a dating app

@LeoAriWibowo 3 ай бұрын

Ahhhh... my old phone. A phone that can spark conversations with curious people because of its peculiar shape. But because of its shape, it was really hard to find a case and screen protector for it.

@nothyperealfr 3 ай бұрын

A. i will not forgive you B. for the flappy bird game my trick is to use the animation scalings in the developer settings oh and also this game is hard asf even with the scaling

@toucanroombas Ай бұрын

Not hype real fr

@nothyperealfr Ай бұрын

@@toucanroombas very real fr

@Yippeee5959 Ай бұрын

You're forgiveness won't matter

@techcube7291 15 күн бұрын

The animation scaling just makes the game slower but the jumps are still high (am I right?)

@nothyperealfr 14 күн бұрын

@@techcube7291 yes but since its slower it makes it easier

@YoutubeWatcher264 3 ай бұрын

Funny how iPhone 3GS' side bezes are smaller than iPhone 12's side bezels. MKBHD showed this phone back in the day. It was modern looking then, like now. Looks better than any of the new "bezel-less" phones of today (aside of the curved displays which are dying now). Sharp should make a new one with camera punch hole and bezel-less on all 4 sides. I'll buy that.

@BltchErica 3 ай бұрын

Respectfully, you're tweaking. I just looked at the iPhone 3GS' side bezels and they are about the same as the 12's side bezels, maybe larger in fact. It definitely doesn't look better, it looks old and chunky. The reason iPhones don't have bezels as thin as the Sharp Aquos Crystal is because it's very difficult to make the bottom chin smaller, and Apple doesn't want to have a bigger chin, which I respect. Phones with bigger chins (like 99% of Androids do) have no excuse to not have bezels as small as the Sharp Aquos Crystal though. If your device has a bigger chin, you might as well remove the other bezels for a futuristic look, since the design is already non-uniform.

@YoutubeWatcher264 3 ай бұрын

@@BltchErica Yeah, whatever. 3GS side bezels still look thinner.

@shiro3146 3 ай бұрын

fun fact! sharp has Crystal 3 wich has teardrop front cam

@topg2820 Ай бұрын

cap

@s_tech.unitedkingdom 3 ай бұрын

Bro u got the dankpods vibe 😂👏

@oscarcanales3830 3 ай бұрын

at first i thought it was a Dankpods video hahaha

@IAmStillNotMatthew 3 ай бұрын

My brain immediately started playing Dankpods yelling "BEZEL"

@rainmannoodles 3 ай бұрын

BEZEL kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNB_q8Klr7GcYaM.html

@vaishnavgm 3 ай бұрын

@@oscarcanales3830 without the green iPad? My word 😵

@cathacker13 2 ай бұрын

he's like dankpods from the alternate universe where he didnt lose his marbles

@tabbycat406 3 ай бұрын

Sharp has always been known for their screens, and their TVs were really good back in the day. I wish that Sharp lead the US Android market back then, imagine a flagship version of this.

@LightningXCE 2 ай бұрын

I love this phone specifically because it mirrors a lot of the Zune HD design language with the hardware. The Aquos Crystal is so beautiful but holy crap holding it will absolutely trigger so much stuff on the sides of the screen ahaha

@gugubope21 3 ай бұрын

please, companies, i beg you, stop trying to get rid of bezels. give me my holdable phones and square screens back. let my monitor screens survive a small bump on the side without shattering. PLEASE

@Zenttt0098 Ай бұрын

Buy sony then😂😂

@TheTriangle444 Ай бұрын

@@Zenttt0098 Sony is soo shit. Like they pretend to be all unique and unwavering but goddamn they are so far behind, can't compete, and they still sell at a premium.

@JayMoreLikeSlay 3 ай бұрын

I didnt think initially I was going to sit through the whole video, but it was really entertaining

@parkerlreed 3 ай бұрын

This was my baby back in the day. Absolutely love it.

@GameOver-nm2us Ай бұрын

I am begging you to start taking more care of these phones

@frokfrdk Ай бұрын

Beg the previous owners not me lol

@Raderade1-pt3om 3 ай бұрын

Honestly its impressive how many features and customisation they have baked into this.

@kindofanmol 3 ай бұрын

Such a trip down memory lane man. Especially the GalaxyS8 and those iphone 8 leaks.

@coffee2375 3 ай бұрын

One of my fav phones to use is the LG Wing, not because of the rotating gimmic, but the uninterrupted screen. Plus its a fun party trick

@notyourbusiness1352 2 ай бұрын

Great video man subbed!!

@IS-ie3jw Ай бұрын

Bro sounds like Dankpods.

@Wiibiplay 3 ай бұрын

The reason why that phone has a built in TV app is because Japanese phones (with bezels) usually have a proper antenna you can extend out. More modern phones dont have an extendable antenna but they still have the app for IP TV viewing. By the way, i swear i watched one of your channels years ago, you sound and look so familiar lol

@frokfrdk 3 ай бұрын

It was likely from another channel ;)

@serkanavci5 3 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdkcan you do a video for mi mix phones of xioami

@Guccifer808 3 ай бұрын

It was a great one and a conversation starter back in the day

@echoingdespair 3 ай бұрын

A. I will not forgive you /j B. Flappy Bird mini game in android 5 is genuinely hard C. Wish I knew Japanese to make subtitles noting what's on screen D. Cool phone

@Shellcool 3 ай бұрын

When you were talking about the iPhone X, I was shaking my head at because I always think of the S8 when the iPhone X is mentioned, I always mentally compare the two because I was at collage at the time (adult collage lol) and everyone was an iPhone user and only one of them got the iPhone X, I just thought side by side the X had nothing on the S8 looks wise when you power them on next too eachother. Still to this day I remember the S8 when it was announced, it was the first time I'd had that "wow I really want to go out and buy one of these" from an advertisement, just the look of the S8 is still gorgeous, I still have my S8+ in a draw, beautiful phone

@DusableLewis 3 ай бұрын

I actually owned this phone when I was in middle school and it was the coolest thing ever. I got it on sale at a boost store for like $200. A lot of software didn't understand the camera, but overall it was super futuristic for the time and very ahead of its time.

@warth45 3 ай бұрын

squeeze sensors are amazing i love the one on my pixel 4, combined with the amazing haptic feedback Perfect combo

@nightzn_ 3 ай бұрын

WILD thumbnail.

@Talktastic 3 ай бұрын

The galaxy s8 was my favorite smart phone. Perfect size, button placement, even fingerprint reader location

@TheStarscouts 3 ай бұрын

That video was fun to watch!

@bmfboy22 3 ай бұрын

I had this phone (sharp aquus)in 2015 love it. Just had overheating issues during heavy video play.

@cynonexus 3 ай бұрын

I remember wanting this so bad! Ended up with a 5s back in 2015

@HismumYT 4 сағат бұрын

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one obsessed with this phone at the time, I would have sold a kidney for that phone. Everything ages with time.

@mikn999 2 ай бұрын

the thumbnail could literally NOT be more accurate 💯🔥

@andrihusainsudra 2 ай бұрын

the vibe i got from this channel is dankpods but way calmer lol 9:58 YOOO the og Xperia Z was the shit lol i owned one of those too

@eiyllaaa 10 күн бұрын

The oppo reno 10x zoom is really ahead of it's time Also the vivo nex 3 I had them both I really love the extrem curvature screen set up of vivo nex 3

@ASUS_Zenfone9 3 ай бұрын

AQUOS Crystal is old so I didn't care about it, but after watching your review I thought that phone is very good. At auctions in Japan, it sells for around 800 to 2,000 yen, so I'm thinking of getting it.

@cavegamer5989 3 ай бұрын

My brother in law had one back in the day. It qas so cool to see. I got one in 2017 and used it for a year and it was still cool. Just a bit slow.

@TwistedStreams15 2 ай бұрын

I remember saving up to buy the aquos when it first came out I was obsessed when I seen it.

@DrxSlump 2 ай бұрын

It still looks quite impressive in 2024! With a modern theme, it would be hard to place it chronologically without knowing.

@ExploringNew1 3 ай бұрын

You actually do a really good job of making these interesting even though you only show your hands

@XanthosAcanthus 3 ай бұрын

The zune HD came out way before this. Not a phone, but same idea. It still has a tiny bit of bezel though.

@onyx8231 2 ай бұрын

I had a Zune HD. Seeing this phone kept reminding me of it. I wanted to get this phone and then custom theme it to look like the Zune and call it Zune HD2.

@lawrenceandrews4367 Ай бұрын

I HAD ONE OF THESE PHONE. I LOVED IT.

@randomcommenterurl 2 ай бұрын

Sony Xperia ZL from 2013 also focused on screen to body ratio & had the front camera at the bottom

@TheSillyDoggo 3 ай бұрын

2:40 IM SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERED THAT PHONE

@Mr.Z1989 3 ай бұрын

I want the Lumia Phones back. They were really good looking.

@AraiDigital 3 ай бұрын

I miss my Lumia 1520 and 1050

@Magnetorheological Ай бұрын

I loved this design so much back in the day, but I could only find it carrier-locked in the US...So I imported its Japan-only successor, the Aquos Zeta SH-01G and it was amazing, both as a phone and a conversation starter! 😂 To this day, i still remember the lady that helped me activate it on AT&T commenting that Asia gets all the cool phones lol I still have it in its original box in mint condition, and still a looker to this day!

@MISCELLANEOUSENTERTAINER 2 ай бұрын

Time flies swiftly

@carstuff4u942 3 ай бұрын

I had the original one with Boost mobile. It was like $100 or $150 new. I loved it!

@clarysshow3253 2 ай бұрын

Not going to lie, most of the iPhone's premium look comes from the symmetrical design they had going on with their screen

@zorton7461 3 ай бұрын

many women have complained about the lack of small sized smartphones around 5inches to fit their palm size. Bigger displays are not always good for everyone,we need variety

@MazanecYT 3 ай бұрын

Very nice overveiw on this phone and rly nice video. Also I been wondering what song you used in the background 21:57 - 23:52. It sounds neat. I just wanted to know

@frokfrdk 3 ай бұрын

I don't remember - HOME

@deanchur 3 ай бұрын

Hey frok, you should also check out the motorized cameras on the Oppo N1, N1 mini and N3 from 2013, they make the Find X look conservative in comparison. And yes, I do remember this phone because I lusted after one (of course), but since it's a Sharp never came out where I live and I wasn't about to go through the whole rigmarole of paying extra and getting it working on my country's networks, especially since it was just a mid-range phone at the time as well.

@-10 3 ай бұрын

Interesting to see that the Pixel 2 squeeze funciton (active edge) was not really a new thing, I think it was really useful.

@tegrqbruh4158 3 ай бұрын

i remember this vividly when it was a massive thing, i myself was at the time 9 years old

@JessicaFEREM 3 ай бұрын

This phone looks cooler than actual modern phones we've started from the light ngl

@CarlazorTheFourth 3 ай бұрын

i love this phone, wish i could find one that i could afford

@MochoStudiosYT 3 ай бұрын

The thumbnail is crazy

@minecraftgamerxbox2004 3 ай бұрын

I wanted to say the same thing💀💀💀

@lancergt1000 3 ай бұрын

8:15 Sharp has _just_ started selling phones outside the US again, theyre starting out in Indonesia and Taiwan

@nitrobear 3 ай бұрын

You're mentioning the Galaxy S8 as one of the starters many times while forgetting that the LG G6 was actually the first phone that debuted the non-16:9 aspect ratio that everyone uses nowadays! It got released before the S8 did and it even came with rounded bezels too.

@RaisinBarXZ550 3 ай бұрын

Interesting note about the squeeze sensor, for some reason my S21 has a grip sensor in the *#0*# menu an its fairly accurate with a case on. Never saw anything use it, but it has it, along with the previous S models. Will see if it stayed for the 24U when I get one.

@nitricoxide1 3 ай бұрын

"Yeah, I licked the screen." "I'm not lying nor tryna deny it."

@mizutsunebubbledragon3382 3 ай бұрын

I had a Aquos phone lol. Still have it actually. The frame is just loose now and splits apart like a sandwich at the top of you slip your nail between it

@oh-ox9sj 3 ай бұрын

as far as i remember rounded screen matrixes or like ips/amoled (not sure on the specifics but basically smartphone screens) were invented in 2017, thats why before then noone did it

@kavelab699 2 ай бұрын

I recommend taking a look at the new phones from ZTE (Nubia Z60 Ultra and RedMagic 9 Pro). These phones have a complete full screen front without bezels and no front camera visible.

@ytmenbou 2 ай бұрын

こんな古いスマホが紹介されることに驚きが隠せない

@Christian_Luczejko 2 ай бұрын

I wanted that Sharp phone so bad when it came out. I drooled over it for months dreaming of the day it was common to have no bezels. But it was definitely out of my price range at the time.

@Vincent-Singh17159 3 ай бұрын

I own a Sharp Aquos Xx (and yes its called Xx) that also uses the bezel less design but saddly it has no battery in it so im not sure if it even powers on.

@King_Kong_Song 3 ай бұрын

This was the first Android phone I had. Still looks great today. But if you manage to get your fingernail under any corner the screen it comes off real easy.

@Perfumerizer 3 ай бұрын

Wayback I always dreamed of having a chance to have sharp crystal on my hand

@mndlessdrwer Ай бұрын

Palm was rounding the edges of its display openings back in, like, 2009/2010. The display itself still had corners because display technology hadn't developed to have clipped corners just yet, but they thought that the rounded screen edges presented a friendlier appearance. Personally, I still prefer phones that have top and bottom bezels because I dislike relying on accidental touch rejection when I'm trying to pick up the device. My Sony Xperia 1 IV and Samsung Galaxy Note 9 have my preferred amount of top and bottom bezel. Just enough to grip, but not so large that it makes the phone cumbersome.

@bar7381 2 ай бұрын

also want to give credit to the LG G6 which kind of did the S8 style a bit before Smasnug

@justmelmao 3 ай бұрын

thumbnail made me question everything for a second

@Mr.Z1989 3 ай бұрын

I have an edge display phone which is annoying sometimes because of ghost touching / miss touching.

@dinoduderocket 2 ай бұрын

I have the original aquos crystal, as well as the original Xiaomi mi mix 24 carat gold edition, and in my opinion, the first properly bezel-less mainstream phone... The vivo nex S. Done a transparent back mod on mine too

@KristianNowak 3 ай бұрын

25:37 and the pig icon means: "crushed" "Boo-boo tweeting emo bar" according to google translate

@mitsuhashii 24 күн бұрын

25:41 Heritage Japanese speaker here to translate. "My name is Emoko. Please give me a chance from now on." "Hey. Can you hear me? (?) I will be your Emopa-" (the long thing the girl said afterward turned my brain into mush) The application emopaa seems to be some sort of exercise app, the percentage said it was Emopaa's emotions.

@mitsuhashii 24 күн бұрын

I'm thinking emopaa means emotional partner?

@ngybrid 3 ай бұрын

2:51 For us brokies, closest we get to S8 is Redmi Note 5 Plus lmao But it looks soo charismatic and elegant, I prefer that kinda bezel than a hole or a notch.

@azkryvll Ай бұрын

Xperia XZ3, Pixel 3, Pixel 2 XL, ROG Phone 6?

@ngybrid Ай бұрын

@@azkryvll Ah yes, that's cool too. But not for us brokies haha

@xerxesYt123 3 ай бұрын

for the hidden flappy bird game, the speed ties into the animation speed of the phone, (or was it transition or window?) if you set it to a very slow speed, you can make the game slower and not have a sharp (heh) pull on the flappy bird

@InvidiousIgnoramus 3 ай бұрын

Man, I remember when this phone was announced. It looked so WILD.

@Dipkid 13 күн бұрын

but cheek bezels in the thumbnail is absurb!

@1ksan1997 3 ай бұрын

actually in 2013 Nokia had unreleased Lumia Vela, its kinda look "bezel less" in earlier design, even though the bezel little bit thick than this

@RiThaKilla 2 ай бұрын

I used to want this phone so bad when it came out

@WeedcatNT 3 ай бұрын

3:00 as someone who owns 5 Galaxy S8 im dissapointed in you only having a cracked one ;w;

@Mob3tta_01 3 ай бұрын

The Samsung ultra kept the boxy design which i love and hope they keep.

@h44k4 3 ай бұрын

7:55 I use Pixel 4, and god damn this squeeze sensor is so useful. I binded it to flashlight and it is so much more easier and comfortable just to squeeze the phone than to go to Action Center and enable it

@vulcanitu2578 3 ай бұрын

I was doing the same with HTC U11, that was a dope phone

@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim 2 ай бұрын

when u said 'front'... i thought how new phones focus more on the backs since their fronts all look the same lol

@brandon2755 Ай бұрын

I was beginning to think the Sharp Aquos phone was a fever dream lol. RIP the galaxy note 9, my favorite Samsung phone.

@uPilot 3 ай бұрын

2:50 my mom had an S8 when it came out

@bradye21playsIndieHorror 3 ай бұрын

This phone was on my radar, but what killed it was the removal of the top bezel also removed the left speaker in portrait mode. I heard an in-display speaker in person once (I want to say it was ZTE - also a defunct company), it is not even close to the same. I applaud them for trying things but I understand why it didn't work. To call it bezel-less then have a giant bezel on the bottom, a notch in top, even slightly asymmetrical bezels on any side just made it obvious it's not bezel-less. Thus the trend failed.

@maximiacovacci 3 ай бұрын

the s8 was commercializeed as the first samsung phone that got rid of the front button but they lied, back in 2011 they released the samsung galaxy (google) nexus, it had a comfy banana shape and a gorgeous screen

@gropatapouf5998 2 ай бұрын

One plus 7 pro had the best popup camera ever made, bezelless and pure beast.

@mitycznestudiofilmowe7345 3 ай бұрын

This phone is f*****g beautiful!

@bj0urne Ай бұрын

Gotta love that Super Mario Galaxy music

@seppusepp8554 3 ай бұрын

Wow I actually used this phone back then in 2018. Got it for very cheap like 45 usd for bundle with other phone SH-02H and 303SH still carrier locked. You should try to get earlier sharp phone model like 203SH and 302SH too, I think both of them look stunning for a phones that came in 2012/2013.

@MinNeTi Ай бұрын

In 2019/20