I tried the wild 0mm bezel Android phone that beat Apple to the punch

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Going bezel-free has been an obsession in the smartphone industry for years. Every generation, phone makers find another millimeter to shave off, whether through clever display packaging, curved glass, or squeezing more hardware into less space. Apple, too, is reportedly on track to launch a zero-bezel device next year. But here at IFA 2026, TECNO wants to take that race to the very end with its new 0mm bezelless Android smartphone .

Let’s be clear, this is very much a concept device rather than a production-ready phone, but the effect is surprisingly convincing. TECNO has managed to (almost) eliminate the visible black border between the 6.7-inch 144Hz display and the phone’s frame entirely. It’s like a smartphone equivalent of an infinity pool, and it sure does make the device look quite striking.

The screen seems to run right into the frame, though if you look ever so closely at an angle, you might see the tiniest tinge of black border.

TECNO says getting to this bezel-free design required changing how the display is assembled. The concept uses a dual-layer cover glass, with the lower layer extending underneath the frame, while the display is inserted from the rear rather than the front. A custom adhesive then secures the extended glass to the frame. The result is that the normally hidden inactive area and assembly space can sit underneath the frame instead of creating a visible black border.

While the display feels like it makes up most of the phone’s face, it doesn’t suddenly give you a dramatically more usable screen, but it removes one of those little visual interruptions we’ve all become accustomed to.

The rest of the phone is more predictable, with some details I liked and others that left me less impressed.

For one, the TECNO concept is surprisingly light and fairly thin, despite packing a sizeable 6,000mAh battery, at least according to the hardware configuration TECNO shared with me at their IFA ShowStoppers booth.