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Bezels. Bezels bezels bezels. For a word most of us had never uttered up until a few years ago -- heck, even I had to go and look it up at some point in the not-so-distant past -- we sure do hear an awful lot about the big "B"-to-the-"Z" these days.
(See also: "chamfer" -- another term gadget-makers and in turn tech writers have fallen in lust with as of late that no normal person has ever used. I have a theory, in fact, that no one actually knows what "chamfer" means. I chamfer you to prove me wrong.)
A bezel, for the uninitiated, is the space surrounding the screen of a smartphone -- you know, that area between the display and the edge where you rest your appendages and/or take occasional naps. It was traditionally used as a term for jewelry but has recently exploded as a buzzword here in the realm of consumer electronics.
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