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Is this supposed to be impressive? If I remember correctly, Samsung and LG already had rounded corners. And no ugly notch either.

• briandear 9y ago
  > And no ugly notch either. And no Face ID camera. The "notch" was because of the Face ID components. You're comparing apples and oranges.
  • chimeracoder 9y ago
    > And no Face ID camera. The "notch" was because of the Face ID components. Facial unlocking was introduced in Android phones back in 2011.
    • hypervis0r 9y ago
      You're comparing apples and oranges, too. OP was talking about functional facial unlocking
      • CaptSpify 9y ago
        Yeah, like we had back in 2011
        • lorenzhs 9y ago
          You mean the one that could be tricked with a simple photo and a pen that you swipe over the eyes to fool the "blink detection"? The one that only worked in good lighting? I tried to use it at the time, it was awful.
  • dingo_bat 9y ago
    No. They could have made it a simple bezel. You can say this about anything. For example, note8 has an IR iris camera. Still they didn't make the phone look ugly.
• saagarjha 9y ago
  They're not squircles, though.
• _pmf_ 9y ago
  But has it been designed by Apple in California by Jony Ive? That's what I thought.
• whywhywhywhy 9y ago
  In Apples industrial design team's eyes these phones have uneven margins so are failed designs. Even though the margins on the X are sleight of hand because of the notch, they still believe this is a truly edgeless phone and by looking at the object it's pretty obvious the brief was equal margins on all sides at any cost.