Near Bezel-less design
Zellweger noted that HTC will be coming out with near bezel-less screens in the future. When there is no bezel around the screen this leaves more space to implement technology in the case below the screen. He goes on to reason that nobody will complain when you make the screen larger but leave the phone dimensions around the same size (so that it won’t take up even more space in your bag/pants or wherever you carry your phone). Next to the bezel-less design they are certainly aiming to dive below the 10-13mm thickness that most HTC phones currently have.

If this means that we will see more differentiation in HTC designs is unknown. But we believe the company sure could use some new ideas.

Another big question here could be if HTC will continue to use their beloved Super LCD screens or will they be able to buy some of the production of Super AMOLED screens by samsung? They tried to jump to AMOLED when the HTC Desire was first released, but met with a huge shortage which led them to SLCD technology.

NFC
Zellweger from HTC also noted that the new models will be coming with an NFC chip. NFC (Near Field Communication) allows you to make payments with your mobile phone by holding it close to a transaction point. Google recently launched their NFC payment service Google Wallet so it’s probably not speculation that the new HTC phones will be compatible with this service.

Onscreen keyboard with feedback on the touchscreen
Tweakers.net also reported that HTC is working on a technology that allows for feedback while using the onscreen keyboard. How they will manage to do this is still unknown. Zellweger hinted at possible use of bubbles on the screen where they replace hardware keyboards. Do we really want bubbles on our smooth touchscreens? We can’t see this working out very well – but perhaps HTC will prove us wrong here.

Many users have been outing their concerns about making bezel-less phones, but why? Well imagine a phone doesn’t have a bezel at all and you would drop it on a corner – even from a very low fall the phone screen would most likely shatter or at the least be damaged. Certainly this would not pass HTC quality control? Could it be that HTC is coming out with more bendable screens that could withstand such a drop/pressure? Time will tell. It’s certainly an interesting idea.

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