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A Short History of Smartphone Design [Video]

A Short History of Smartphone Design [Video]

Posted July 21, 2015 at 4:50pm by
Check out this video from CNET that takes you through the evolution of smartphone design.

Charting the major mobile announcements of the last eight years, we show you how smartphone design has changed since the first iPhone.


Take a look below and let us know which design is your favorite in the comments!

[via Shawn]


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Mr Logical
Mr Logical - July 22, 2015 at 6:18pm
The may the best copycat win second place! For a while it was Samsung and HTC were neck and neck. I wonder what held HTC back?
gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - July 22, 2015 at 6:33pm
Ideas they barely come up with and may have done.
Great
Great - July 22, 2015 at 4:33am
So basically Samsung copies Apple. Yawn.
Slychong
Slychong - July 22, 2015 at 4:13am
If they line up all model came out from each company , you will only see flickering in Samsung and sony/sonyericson
RWR
RWR - July 21, 2015 at 11:55pm
Some people just want to be simple. Those people are the same people that buy a Mercedes just to say they have one, not because they like or know anything about a specific model
SimonSays
SimonSays - July 21, 2015 at 11:27pm
iPhone FTW!!!!! Love my iPhone. Google will never see me as a customer, ever!!!!!!! When Apple stops making phones, I'll stop using a smartphone, plain and simple.
matrixmaniac
matrixmaniac - July 21, 2015 at 11:18pm
Hmmm... Many more BBs than I was aware of... Obviously that didn't help them...
Anonymous
Anonymous - July 21, 2015 at 9:46pm
Iphone has been perfect since day 1
Sean
Sean - July 21, 2015 at 6:48pm
No 6 plus?
Kev_biggaveli
Kev_biggaveli - July 21, 2015 at 6:05pm
Wow iphone was the fist to try something different then here comes tag along samsung
MichelVill
MichelVill - July 21, 2015 at 4:57pm
All of them follow iPhone!!!
Sean
Sean - July 21, 2015 at 6:47pm
All present bar the iphone 6 plus. Just saying
Gabe
Gabe - July 21, 2015 at 8:35pm
The show of the iPhone 6 was standing for both phones.
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