How much of your phone is actually screen?

[Commodus]

I've used the Xperia ZL... you want the Z1 Compact, really.

The ZL has terrible viewing angles, short battery life, and a thicker body. Even if the CPU and camera were the same in the ZL, I'd prefer the Z1 Compact any day.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

He doesn't want a solution, he wants to whine.

It's a valid concern for typical consumers who don't want to spend time debloating, ROMing, rooting, etc.

Apple could do much better also, they just don't ever have to.

Why does Apple have to shrink the bezels? You're acting like if they don't do that they're somehow backwards. Bezel is nice in some cases. I've complained before the iPod Touches were getting to thin. There's a point where the phone is too small to hold too. Having that bezel on a 3.5" device makes sense. Also, if you shrink bezels, something has to give. Smaller battery? Less room for other chips? The iPhone is already densely packed with far better use of internal space than say a Nexus 5.

And like I said, even if they shrank bezels to match the G2, the iPhone 5 would be behind in this metric. It's not about how I'm looking at it, it's just the nature of the metric.

 

[Rdmkr]

I think this graph would best be shown alongside a graph of absolute bezel sizes to adjust for the generally larger bezel percentages on smaller phones.