MWC 2016: First photos of the ‘bezel-less’ Ulefone Future


Ulefone’s been talking about the Future for a while. The company is naturally kicked about getting this phone on the market thanks to it having near-zero bezel.

Ulefone is using that fact to promote the phone as a ‘bezel-less’ one. While we’ve hardly had a chance to see the phone in its full glory in the past, we can thankfully gawk at these pictures of the Future that Andi took today at MWC.

Ulefone Future Photos

Ulefone Future: How bezel-less?

While most such claims in the past have been a sham, Ulefone seem to have actually put some engineering in to making the Future as bezel-less as possible.

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A little narrow black line on the edges can be noticed, but that doesn’t seem like too bad a start for 2016.

We should probably expect some more bezel-less phones — perhaps from larger brands — later this year. As for the Ulefone Future, it should hit the market very soon. It isn’t just the bezels (or the lack of them) that the Future is interesting for; the phone is also one of the first ‘export brand’ Chinese devices to have a fingerprint sensor on the edge.

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48 Comments

  1. Assefa Hanson
    February 22, 2016

    nice, can you guys get an info on the BQ aquaris x5 plus, the snap dragon 652 pop architechture integrating the RAM.. are all 652s like this? would like to see it

  2. Xalis
    February 22, 2016

    On screen buttons are absolutely disgusting, the design is ugly, but the fingerprint placement is spot on.

    • Assefa Hanson
      February 22, 2016

      ulefone i believe mentioned that the onscreen would be removed on the final product

  3. Max
    February 22, 2016

    what about the rest of the specs?

    • February 22, 2016

      coming with the hands on video 😉

      • SilentMonkey
        February 22, 2016

        eagerly waiting!

  4. Bailey
    February 22, 2016

    This just looks so cheap

  5. Tajwar
    February 22, 2016

    Too little side bezels IMO is a problem too, when you hold your phone one handed your palm touches the narrow bezeled sides and triggers the touch making it very annoying.

  6. tauerman
    February 22, 2016

    Seems like they hid the bezel under a rounded glass edge.

  7. Manjurul Islam
    February 22, 2016

    Too cheap quality, look at the volume rocker, it is very very loose, and that camera outer shell, too outdated and worst of a design.

  8. Adam Irvine
    February 22, 2016

    Build quality looks a little kak, and the squar look of the camera cover looks a bit back in the day to me… But I really do like what they’re doing with the screen!

  9. realjjj
    February 22, 2016

    Gionee claimed today that the S8 is 74.9mm wide, don’t remember the size of the screen here, if it’s the same 5.5 inch but if it is, lets see if they beat that.

  10. Assefa Hanson
    February 22, 2016

    nice, can you guys get an info on the BQ aquaris x5 plus, the snap dragon 652 pop architechture integrating the RAM.. are all 652s like this? would like to see it

  11. Guest
    February 22, 2016

    On screen buttons are absolutely disgusting, the design is ugly, but the fingerprint placement is spot on.

    • Assefa Hanson
      February 22, 2016

      ulefone i believe mentioned that the onscreen would be removed on the final product

  12. Max
    February 22, 2016

    what about the rest of the specs?

    • Andi Sykes
      February 22, 2016

      coming with the hands on video 😉

    • SilentMonkey
      February 23, 2016

      eagerly waiting!

  13. Bailey
    February 22, 2016

    This just looks so cheap

  14. Tajwar
    February 22, 2016

    Too little side bezels IMO is a problem too, when you hold your phone one handed your palm touches the narrow bezeled sides and triggers the touch making it very annoying.

  15. tauerman
    February 22, 2016

    Seems like they hid the bezel under a rounded glass edge.

  16. Manjurul Islam
    February 22, 2016

    Too cheap quality, look at the volume rocker, it is very very loose, and that camera outer shell, too outdated and worst of a design.

  17. MitsosDaBest
    February 22, 2016

    This is a BETA version, it’s possible to look cheap… I hope the release version will be better.

    • Assefa Hanson
      February 22, 2016

      you need to stop being so reasonable/ clear minded/ rational in your assesment of this article, enough is enough

  18. Adam Irvine
    February 22, 2016

    Build quality looks a little kak, and the squar look of the camera cover looks a bit back in the day to me… But I really do like what they’re doing with the screen!

  19. realjjj
    February 22, 2016

    Gionee claimed today that the S8 is 74.9mm wide, lets see if they beat that.

  20. Fred
    February 22, 2016

    Seems like 2 different designers designed this phone. Let’s hope they had fired the one responsible of the back.

  21. MitsosDaBest
    February 23, 2016

    This is a BETA version, it’s possible to look cheap… I hope the release version will be better.

    • Assefa Hanson
      February 23, 2016

      you need to stop being so reasonable/ clear minded/ rational in your assesment of this article, enough is enough

  22. Guest
    February 23, 2016

    Seems like 2 different designers designed this phone. Let’s hope they had fired the one responsible of the back.

  23. Sere83
    February 23, 2016

    Shame about the iClone antennae lines, look awful on the iPhone don’t know why anyone would want to copy.

  24. E8hffff
    February 23, 2016

    A little plain. Definitely not the future if it’s some old SoC and low other specs.

    • Muhammad Yasir
      February 23, 2016

      unless you were living in a cave , the specs are somewhat already out !
      it has p10 and 4GB ram !

  25. Sere83
    February 23, 2016

    Shame about the iClone antennae lines, look awful on the iPhone don’t know why anyone would want to copy.

  26. E8hffff
    February 23, 2016

    A little plain. Definitely not the future if it’s some old SoC and low other specs.

    • Guest
      February 23, 2016

      unless you were living in a cave , the specs are somewhat already out !
      it has p10 and 4GB ram !

  27. Muhammad Yasir
    February 23, 2016

    looks great !
    hopefully will have killer performance AND a great camera with all rounder capabilities !

    lets see how its priced !

  28. Guest
    February 23, 2016

    looks great !
    hopefully will have killer performance AND a great camera with all rounder capabilities !

    lets see how its priced !