antihelten
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Of course I see the resemblance, after you changed the entire phone design to force it to look similar. You had to change the aspect ratio, add a radius to the screen edges that weren't originally there, remove the hardware buttons, and shrink all the bezels. You can do the same thing to any semi rectangular device and make the same point.
The aspect ratio doesn't really have anything to do with the design language (unless you think the fronts of the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 also have completely different design languages), and I didn't add any radius to the screen edge, I followed the glass edge that was already there on the one X, removing the capacitive buttons and shrinking the bezel are just side effects of the first (and really only significant) change I made, namely letting the screen follow the glass edge, instead of being confined to a smaller square.
And no you couldn't do the same to any semi rectangular device, because they don't have the same glass edge boundary that is so reminiscent of the GS8 screen boundary, but by all means feel free to prove me wrong and do the same with another contemporary phone, like say the GS3, the iPhone 5, the Optimus G or the Xperia T (or any other phone you please).
^ the HTC design looks to me like an old compromise where a potentially much sleeker phone had to be encased in an ugly roundish shell. The absurdity of the sharp rectangle screen surroumnded by ill-matching rounded 'cases' just looks retro and awful. (And even at the time HTC had much better designs.)
I agree that the HTC design is very much a compromise, it looks like the designer thought it would look really cool if they put in a large screen with rounded corners, but the engineers then told him that this was impossible, and as a compromise he could get a glass front shaped like what he wanted with a small square screen underneath.
It's only now, 5 years on, that the technology has advanced to the point were the designers idea can finally be implemented, as we see with the GS8.