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Microsoft almost released a Lumia with an ‘edge to edge’ display in 2014

This year, the big smartphone craze is bezel-free displays, with much higher screen to body ratios than we have seen in previous years. While the likes of Samsung, Google and Apple are pushing it now, Microsoft almost beat them all to the punch. It turns out that back in 2014, Microsoft had an edge-to-edge Lumia smartphone in the works for that year, well ahead of the rest of the market. The folks over at  Windows Central  managed to get their hands on the working prototype, which was code-named ‘Vela’ during development. This phone went on to become the Lumia 453, trading in the exciting edge-to-edge display for a safe, widely used design. You can see what the phone looked like in the images below, taken by Windows Central. The display does still have a chin bezel at the bottom, but the top and side bezels are very minimal for the time. According to the report, the display was running at 1280×720 and spanned five-inches diagonally. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 2...