HTC Copying the iPhone

David Pierce at Wired, writing about how the HTC One A9 is a shameless ripoff executed poorly:

Where the iPhone’s ports are perfectly aligned, the A9’s look like they were machined by a drunk 6-year-old with a jackhammer. The headphone jack curls around the back edge. The charging port is off-center horizontally and vertically. And none of the holes is quite the same size or shape.

HTC presumably doesn’t want you to notice that the front-facing camera doesn’t align with the speaker, or that the proximity sensor appears to have been thrown on there randomly. HTC certainly doesn’t want you wondering why it felt the need to put a big logo on the front of the phone when there’s already a huge one on the back.

As with the design, the A9’s software feels like a good idea only half-finished…

Sounds really nice, HTC.

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