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

[@mysticyato7082]

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.

[@2002ToyotaYaris]

May your dad rest in peace🕊🕊

[@BiggestNoodle]

He had taste, that's for sure May God make his soul rest easy

[@VanillaSpooks]

“Sir, please stop licking the display units”

[@MinecraftMadman69]

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

[@NekroWareOfficial]

😣😵

[@CasioMaker]

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

[@Tyyrantt]

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

[@CasioMaker]

@@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.

[@patrickrodriguez8797]

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]

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

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

I still have Asus Zenfone 8 Flip Camera. Shame the phone makers are not innovating as they were

[@karwan6385]

I still got my OP 7 Pro since launch. Tho its only purpose is being a second phone.

[@Alkatross]

Did you see the camera that shoots through the screen?

[@xirruz]

@@Alkatross it will never be as good as an unobstructed camera.

[@bestechYtBotBH]

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]

months?

[@Minimal_M]

@@thenonverified1368Sounded like bs to me lol

[@derick752ify]

Phone was trash...

[@ameerwastaken]

@@Minimal_Myea I don’t get what these annoying people get trying to make up something so meaningless

[@scpactualise]

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]

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

[@LambdaMiscellaneous]

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

[@pringlesdomain4862]

​@@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]

@@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]

​@@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]

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

[@beatyoubeachyt8303]

I love that my sound quality gets downgraded how the heck are they going to put Ford firing speakers with a type C port on the phone put 4 speakers on the phone expensive but probably nice

[@EternalArrow]

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]

Exactly!!! Lol

[@s2000.]

It may be thinner and smaller, but still ugly. Symmetry is king.

[@WolfiiDog13]

For some reason I prefer the iPhone way of doing this. The chin at the bottom being bigger than the top feels weird to me. But my cheap Xiaomi phone luckily has both a thinner bazel and symmetry, so it's not like Apple is doing something special ✨

[@tabbycat406]

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.

[@beatyoubeachyt8303]

sorry to break it to you HTC was leading in 2014 I think the htc m8 is a better phone with a stereoscopic 3-D camera the best speakers put into a phone with the later m9 composite frame best android UI even easier to use than the new ones

[@thiostory]

Nowaday, whatever the vendor that doesn't has ecosystem of technology will be left behind, because people using 2 kind of techno : mobile phone & laptop. That's why only Apple Inc & SAMSUNG that survive, outside china's brands. Even China's brands start producing ecosystem of Their own, Honor & Infinix make smartphone & laptop.

[@beatyoubeachyt8303]

@@thiostory I am actually using android iPhone macOS windows windows laptop windows desktop

[@jaaanska]

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.

[@LeoAriWibowo]

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.

[@S己G]

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.

[@ehtisham8340]

Bezzels gets so annoying while playing games

[@petertrex]

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]

I thought it was a dating app

[@GRIIIMMEDIA]

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.

[@AtrixTechYT]

Bro u got the dankpods vibe 😂👏

[@oscarcanales3830]

at first i thought it was a Dankpods video hahaha

[@IAmStillNotMatthew]

My brain immediately started playing Dankpods yelling "BEZEL"

[@rainmannoodles]

BEZEL kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJuyqZKqf7BrZ9E

[@vaishnavgm]

​@@oscarcanales3830 without the green iPad? My word 😵

[@cathacker13]

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

[@nothyperealfr]

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

[@MandrakeRoomba]

Not hype real fr

[@nothyperealfr]

@@MandrakeRoomba very real fr

[@UserT5959]

You're forgiveness won't matter

[@techcube7291]

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

[@nothyperealfr]

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

[@YoutubeWatcher264]

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]

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]

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

[@shiro3146]

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

[@topg2820]

cap

[@gugubope21]

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]

Buy sony then😂😂

[@TheTriangle444]

@@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.

[@Roukos_Rks]

The bezel is also made of glass though, so it can crack too

[@Shellcool]

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

[@echoingdespair]

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

[@BurgerParty]

Sharp Aquos Crystal 2 is a 2015 devices so totally clickbait you do not even change the title?

[@inakaii]

I mean it is clickbait but he has it in the description

[@alpha-gs2uz]

It's funny anyways, why not keep the bit going?

[@ianharris4971]

It looks the exact same as the one from 2014

[@PrinceaIIy]

He acknowledges it though at 10:57

[@ExploringNew1]

Same thing

[@ahmada56]

I actually got a similar phone as my first phone. Here in Pakistan, we have these smuggled phones in our local markets, I didn't have enough money to buy a new one so I bought a cheap SHARP Aquos SH-03G from the market, it had the same form factor and no bezels, the camera was in the bottom bezel though which meant that I had to hold the phone upside down to take selfies. But overall a 3 GB RAM and 32 GB ROM phone back in 2018 was enough for me. I got it for 10,000 PKR as well which is about 35 USD. The screen was so good! I watched so much anime and movies on it, it was the best.

[@XantoS771]

Sharp never disappointed. My old Sharp HD Ready LED TV still runs like new after nearly 16 years, made in Japan

[@parkerlreed]

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

[@JayMoreLikeSlay]

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

[@Wiibiplay]

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]

It was likely from another channel ;)

[@serkanavci5]

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

[@LightningXCE]

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

[@XanthosAcanthus]

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

[@onyx8231]

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.

[@coffee2375]

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

[@gross____546]

You are just some guy making videos, and I appreciate that

[@Raderade1-pt3om]

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

[@Askonnito]

Samsung S8 was before iPhone X and had even more screen to phone ratio 1:33

[@Terrorbrot]

Yeah the iPhone X was such a weird pick, like apple was being laughed at for their bezels at the time and kinda just caught up to everyone else

[@shadowhacker27]

Since I moved to Japan I am on a mission to turn my house into a Sharp House. People have no idea that, in terms of malpractice, the only company I know of to have decided to go bankrupt instead of tricking their customers with crap is Sharp. All the other companies are selling you snake oil. I call them the real inventors. These people have created most of the stuff. The other companies just copy them. Always, without a doubt, ahead of their time.

[@trackster2642]

I appreciate that the phone is still so smooth and fluent with ui

[@Jonathan.MichaelNZ]

I remember getting the S8 a few days before they properly came out because I pre ordered, and I had people ask me what phone I owned, was and still is such a stunning design!

[@Vint_2003]

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.

[@Dvance]

8:03 Squeeze or grip sensors still exist in smart phones... some detect whether the phone senses touch on the upper, or lower parts of the back of the phone.

[@JessicaFEREM]

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

[@andrihusainsudra]

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

[@Railkers101]

0:17 Bro was sounding like dank pods for a second.

[@lancergt1000]

1:55 I can get a 179$ phone with symmetrical bezels (Infinix Note 30 Pro), its getting way more common now

[@ASUS_Zenfone9]

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.

[@kindofanmol]

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

[@sridrawings4510]

Lol no way people considering mid 2010s to late 2010s phones as nostalgia now a days

[@gavinvales8928]

I’ve never forgotten you Sharp Aquos Crystal

[@FAB1150]

The S8 and later the OnePlus 7 Pro are STILL the vest looking smartphones that were released. I was the guy that changed phones every year, until I got my 7Pro. It's just the perfect phone, and I only changed it this year because of software support and the fact that it's became way too slow for modern software. It's still my second phone and it definitely still looks and feels better than what I have now :D It's sad that OnePlus took a dive after that, but they wanted to get more mainstream.

[@Sqwaunchy]

OnePlus 7Pro might be my all time favorite, was suuuuch a good phone.

[@benjaminmendenhall4497]

How cute your dog is and you do a great job on your videos

[@nightzn_]

WILD thumbnail.

[@Fela_rof]

Loved my Samsung Galaxy S8. Got it in 2017 when it was released, because it was so aesthetically pleasing and besides one battery change it kept going until a few months ago.

[@bmfboy22]

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

[@nitrobear]

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.

[@nitricoxide1]

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

[@TheSillyDoggo]

2:40 IM SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERED THAT PHONE

[@MochoStudiosYT]

The thumbnail is crazy

[@minecraftgamerxbox2004]

I wanted to say the same thing💀💀💀

[@mitsuhashii]

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]

I'm thinking emopaa means emotional partner?

[@KristianNowak]

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

[@clarysshow]

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

[@JamesEmlynDaviesBrown]

A few years ago I had a Mi Mix 3 and the comfort of not seeing frames or notches was incredible. Now I have a Samsung A80. It may not be the most modern, but for me it is one of the most beautiful Samsung's

[@theGamerzx3]

The grip senskr is still used in a lot of phones for the dont turn off screen if holding phone function

[@notyourbusiness1352]

Great video man subbed!!

[@himbourbanist]

ah man, I had an S9 + or pro or whatever and I could not believe how immense of a step forward that design was when I got it. That phone was so, so cool for its time

[@TheOfficialStal]

I remember drooling over this phone at the time, it was near impossible to buy

[@Magnetorheological]

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!

[@anonymousaccount12344]

"I didn't ask" is the funniest line I've heard all day

[@beatspopo]

isnt it lg g6 that came out way before s8? the truly first that gives you the taller aspect ratio?

[@adorp]

This phone reminds me of Xperia Z series. That water resistant flap, the SIM tray, the square corners...

[@ytmenbou]

こんな古いスマホが紹介されることに驚きが隠せない

[@mikn999]

the thumbnail could literally NOT be more accurate 💯🔥

[@lancergt1000]

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

[@Talktastic]

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

[@Mr.Z1989]

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

[@nevinnsong008]

1:40 how can I get that wallpaper?

[@frokfrdk]

frokfrdk.com/projects/amethyst-lake/

[@DrxSlump]

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

[@jumb0play3r35]

I really appreciate this man’s video’s. Because he is definitely doing his best. And just because the phones that he is showing in his videos are broken, that doesn’t mean the video get’s worse because of that. It is the same with me. I collect old apple stuff. And when something is broken it is obviously way cheaper. I also buy a lot of my old iPhones from my buddies. And if the backside is broken I simply don’t care, because i get a good deal on them. 👍

[@frokfrdk]

Buying broken phones is cheaper and simply allows me to get a larger more varied collection

[@ExploringNew1]

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

[@Clotix6114]

i have a few of these phones, there are on ebay for under $10

[@frokfrdk]

Not anymore (I looked when buying this one)

[@VegitoBlackityBlack]

My uncle Yato use to have to phone. My cousin (His child that was named after him) was telling me about 4 months ago he seen a video of this phone and it reminded him of his dad. I wonder if this was the same video that made him think of his dad like this one's making me think of my uncle.

[@MazanecYT]

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]

I don't remember - HOME

[@SiddharthMehta2]

Did this really need to be a 45 minute video?

[@passivevii4052]

Bros desperate

[@PILATESDILEMMA]

If you don't like it don't watch

[@greenteen7]

maybe don’t watch? i’m confused

[@ieatiron1]

Yes

[@SiddharthMehta2]

I keep getting notified of replies here lol

[@willcookmakeup]

Omg I completely forgot this phone ever existed. Even today, you'd be hard pressed to find a modern flasgship with a smaller bezel than thism it's nearly non existent

[@Jellowstudios]

The thumbnail LOL: are you serious the phone is not ice cream lol

[@ngybrid]

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]

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

[@ngybrid]

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

[@randomcommenterurl]

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

[@UltraCenterHQ]

Sharp being the first one to have edge to edge screens actually makes sense

[@Incidental104]

Actually Apple does tapered edges on the Apple Watches, though they’re subtle. On the S7 and newer, the effect is very noticeable if you look at it from the bottom. However, the improved screen panel makes it resemble the edge on Galaxy phones more than this.

[@warth45]

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

[@1ksan1997]

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

[@Emppu_T.]

If xiaomi made an updated version of my Mix 1. I'd buy one again. I've had 2 ohones after and im kind of tired to get rounded, only tall screens. After my Mix i got a poco with a pop camera with no screen cutouts

[@frykauf]

The bezels are so thin that in Camera preview it's hard to focus on the screen and not the background.

[@HismumYT]

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.

[@tavycoolish]

well, partially true...you forgot to mention the Mi Mix which was released in 2016 and had less overall bezel than the iPhone X (when you said that iPhone was ahead)

[@frokfrdk]

Sometimes you can just tell when people comment before watching and it's great

[@tavycoolish]

@@frokfrdk look, I'm not saying that you disn't mention it after. I'm saying that you should have mentioned it before the iPhone because it's not Apple that had the best ratio of the time. It was actualy Xiaomi that gave us the Mix model and the press was already speculating that it will be the "next big thing" alomg side the vibration speaker that came with it

[@frokfrdk]

I started at the iPhone X and went backwards to the Sharp

[@OrganicGreens]

talking about 2017 like its 2005 lol i feel old

[@frokfrdk]

@@OrganicGreens we are now closer to 2030 than we are to 2017...

[@JRChuxx]

iPhone 10 was one of the last to go bazel-less in the industry, not one of the first like you stated.

[@frokfrdk]

@@JRChuxx i started from the iPhone X and worked my way backwards to the Aquos in the video

[@kavelab699]

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.

[@Ishaan_Sharma7]

37:11 OMG nostalgia!!!

[@h44k4]

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]

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

[@uPilot]

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

[@hackandtech24]

Why didnt you show the red magic 8 amd up they are amazing ti look at.

[@dinoduderocket]

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

[@InvidiousIgnoramus]

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

[@nilsdendekker1300]

39:36 In Japanese SMS is often referred to as メール (Meeru). So i think this one is to blame on a loss in translation

[@eiyllaaa]

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