Phones are always getting thinner. For whatever reason, that's a metric that matters to the general public more than battery life. As the phones slim down, so do the screens. LG is stepping up its display game by producing the thinnest 1080p LCD in the world. This 5.2-inch panel is only 2.2mm thick and has a 2.3mm bezel. This is about as svelte as you can make a bezel without getting into those wacky bending screens that pop up at tradeshows, but never in actual devices. Though, the bezel on an actual device would be a bit wider due to the housing and screen mounts.

LG calls the technology behind this screen the Advanced One-Glass-Solution (OGS). This tech involves inserting dual flexible printed circuits between the LCD panel and touch film. This results in 30% fewer lines on the panel. Additionally, this is a proper 1080p screen – no sub-pixel trickery here. Every pixel is RGB, and the screen can output 535 nits of brightness. That's more light than any 1080p screen on the market can currently produce.

Having an LCD this slim might actually make it possible for an OEM to engineer a phone that is sufficiently thin, but also makes more room for a large battery. LG didn't say if the super-thin panel would be showing up in any phones soon, like maybe in that unannounced Optimus G2 we're hearing so much about? The G2 has been rumored to have a 5.2-inch screen, so maybe this is the panel? We can only hope. Full PR is below.