Over the past eight years, I’ve reviewed almost every major smartphone, and one of the changes I’ve come to notice in that time is how the subject of a handset’s durability has become inseparable from that of its display. Without spinning hard drives, slide-out mechanisms, or telescopic camera lenses, most smartphones nowadays are nearly unbreakable, except for their expansive glass front — which is the most common victim of any accidental falls or drops. And in 2017, as smartphone makers keep putting glass on both the front and back of their devices, and as screen bezels shrink dramatically smaller, I think we’ll see the preeminence (and fragility) of glass in smartphones take on a new importance.

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