The Pixel smartphone series began its life as a shameful iPhone copycat. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise since the original Pixel and Pixel XL phones were designed by Google in partnership with HTC. Once a market leader, HTC had already fallen quite far at that point, and it had just released its own iPhone 6 copycat in hopes of boosting sales. Google’s first-generation Pixel phones were based on the design of that iPhone 6 ripoff, which was called the HTC One A9s. The Pixel was basically an Android-powered iPhone 6, while the Pixel XL was an Android-powered iPhone 6 Plus. The only real difference in designs was the big glass panel the Pixel phones had on the back.
Google’s current-generation Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL aren’t quite as blatant when it comes to copying Apple. Of course, the larger Pixel 3 XL still takes inspiration from Apple’s latest iPhone models and includes a big notch at the top of the display. If everything we’ve heard so far pans out, however, Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones will be nothing like Apple’s iPhone XS or the next-generation iPhone 11. Instead, they’ll take design cues from Samsung’s Galaxy S10 series — and if the results end up looking anything like the renders you’re about to see in this post, there’s a very good chance that Google’s 2019 Pixel phones will look even better than the iPhone 11 series handsets Apple is planning to release later this year.
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These impossibly sleek Pixel 4 renders look so much better than the iPhone 11 originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 21 May 2019 at 08:17:41 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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