The morning after Samsung debuted its newest flagship Android smartphone, The Samsung Galaxy S4, rival company Apple did something unprecedented: it released a mini-website that specifically pitches to potential smartphone owners to choose the iPhone over “everything else.”
Whether or not Apple had intended it, the mere presence of this website elicits an admission that the company, confident in the iPhone’s dominance in both technology and user experience since its release in 2007, believes that it now has some competition. And it’s not that much of a stretch: the most recent generation of Android smartphones have taken a design aesthetic that is decidedly more elevated in materials and quality than ever before.
Android smartphone design is making leaps in industrial design more than ever before, paving the way for bolder looks in the future and establishing a reputation that the phones are just as pretty as they are functional.
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