Look At How Much Slimmer The Galaxy S8's Bezels Are Next To The iPhone, Pixel And S7

If you watch smartphone reviews on YouTube, you've surely heard of dbrand. The Canadian company specializes in making "skins" (aka stickers that cover the phone) that add both grip and style to smartphones, and they're always highly "recommended" by YouTube's tech community.

(I put quotation marks around the word recommended because while dbrand do make mostly great products -- I purchased a matte black dbrand skins for my Galaxy Note 7 and loved the fit and finish -- all those "I would suggest you slap a dbrand skin on the phone, link in my description below" type of shout-outs from YouTubers such as SuperSaf and Dom Esposito are almost certainly paid ads. I find it hilarious that all of them say almost the exact same thing ... C'mon, guys, mix it up.)

Anyway, since dbrand skin is by far the top skin-maker for smartphones for a few years now, it's safe to assume they have inside connections with phone companies the way case-makers like Spiegen do. That's why dbrand skin is able to take pre-orders for the Galaxy S8 already -- they probably already have very, very reliable information on the exact look and dimensions of the yet-to-be-announced phone. Dbrand is so confident, in fact, they've put the entire image of the S8 on its product page.

So I got an idea: why not screengrab the mock-up images of various phones from dbrand's site and compare them side-by-side? We already know the Galaxy S8 will have very slim bezels, but how will they look next to the Galaxy S7? Or the iPhone 7? Or the hilariously large bezel-ed Google Pixel?

You already saw up top on the main image how the S8 should look next to the S7 (please note: I purposely chose the orange skin -- which is ugly as heck in my opinion -- so the bezels would stand out), and the difference is jarring. The S7's bezels were already quite slim, and the S8 makes that looks chunky and thick.

Take a look at the S8 next to the iPhone 7 now (I've taken the liberty to scale the images so the two phones roughly approximates the real-life size differences).

The iPhone 7's three-year-old design is really showing here. But it's okay, Apple fanboys, the iPhone 8 will fix this.

Moving on... I've always thought the LG G3 was the king of small-bezels up until recently (which is very impressive considering the G3 came out in 2014), to the point that I even wrote a piece comparing the S8's build to the G3, and the side-by-side comparison sort of proves my case. Check out the G3's bezels, they keeps up quite well with a phone that will be released three years later.

Here is the S8 compared to the LG G6, which has impressively small bezels too.

Finally, onto the phone I've poked fun at the most: the Google Pixel. Look, I know the Pixel has great software and a great camera, but Ron Amadeo's theory about the Pixel's hardware is probably dead-on: Google didn't have time to design the Pixel after Huawei rejected its offer to make the phone, so Google had to settle on existing HTC parts. That explains why the Pixel has that inexplicably giant chin that doesn't even have a home button or fingerprint scanner. There is no way Google designers wanted the bottom chin to be that big; they just didn't have a choice because HTC's never been good at making compact phones. Just look at how unnecessarily large the U Ultra is .

So anyway, here's the Galaxy S8, slim bezels and all, next to the Pixel.

I'm not even a Samsung fan -- I was nitpicking on the Note 7, calling it overpriced, and criticizing Samsung's laggy software back when the phone was getting gushy rave reviews everywhere -- but the Galaxy S8 is really looking sexy. I'm going to be using the G6 and S8 as my daily drivers for a while.