Look at the picture: How big is the impact of the iPhone on Android phones?

Foreign media PhoneArena reported on Thursday that Apple's first-generation iPhone had a huge impact on competitors' smartphone designs. Before Apple released the touch-screen phone on January 9, 2007, the smartphone had a physical keyboard, and the user had to navigate the phone through the buttons. After the iPhone was released, touch-screen phones suddenly became popular.

Through the pictures shared by users on the Reddit website, we can see how much the smartphone design changes before and after the release of the original iPhone, so as to understand the influence of the Apple mobile phone. Apple used the same image in the first Apple v. Samsung patent infringement case to prove that the Samsung Galaxy S and other Samsung models infringed Apple's patents related to iPhone design.

In addition to the original iPhone, the same situation appeared on the iPhone X released in September 2017. The iPhone X is not the first smartphone to use a screen groove. This "honor" actually belongs to the Sharp Aquos S2, which is released three days before the Essential Phone.

It should be mentioned that the screen grooves of these models do not have any function. In contrast, the screen groove of the iPhone X is equipped with the TrueDepth camera system necessary for Face ID. From the above picture, we can see that after the release of iPhone X, many Android flagship phones on the market began to use screen groove design, including Google Pixel XL.

Now, the latest trend in smartphones is to use an on-screen camera instead of a recess, a design that Apple has not used yet. However, PhoneArena pointed out in the report that the impact of the iPhone X-style groove may take up to a full year to disappear.