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this is what the future of smartphones looks like check out the Xiaomi me mix it's a six point four inch phone for the whole front is a screen there's barely any edge frame showing normally on the top of the phone there's a camera or speaker to hear the phone call but nope not on the me mix if you look closely at the bottom there's a little front-facing camera tucked in the corner but that's it no home button either the phone is coming out in China next month but this is a hint of what's to come next in the smartphone world in fact Xiaomi may have just beat Apple to the punch early speculation is that Apple is making a big change to the design of the next iPhone to mark the iPhones 10th anniversary and it likely means the iPhone 8 or whatever is going to be called will have an edge to edge screen like this there are clues that Apple may be getting rid of the iconic physical home button and instead opt to scan a fingerprint through the glass of the screen that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash