"The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture)."
It makes the original iphone seem impressive, perhaps, but now ten years on we see that there has been no real innovation in the phone form factor since then.
They're all just (iphones).
I personally always liked the qwerty slate form factor of the Moto Q / Nokia E71 / Blackberry Classic. But there were many other different and interesting form factors (Nokia communicator, Helio Ocean, that square phone from Motorola that opened out a keyboard like a knife...).
It's interesting and fun to browse through this nice visual history:
It makes the original iphone seem impressive, perhaps, but now ten years on we see that there has been no real innovation in the phone form factor since then.
They're all just (iphones).
I personally always liked the qwerty slate form factor of the Moto Q / Nokia E71 / Blackberry Classic. But there were many other different and interesting form factors (Nokia communicator, Helio Ocean, that square phone from Motorola that opened out a keyboard like a knife...).
It's interesting and fun to browse through this nice visual history:
https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-ce...
... and it makes me wish there were some new form-factor innovation in mobile phones.