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I don't get it. The Lumia was unveiled on Sep 5th. The HTC 8X and 8S were released less than 3 weeks later. Anybody that knows anything about product design can tell you that you can't design and show off a new phone in 3 weeks. The only reason I can think of for why these phones look somewhat similar is because MS gave some inputs on colors and some general guidelines for design that gels well with Windows Phone 8 OS. What your are seeing is two design teams in different countries thinking alike and coming up with products that fit the design constraints that were imposed on them.
To draw on a Formula 1 racing analogy, 10 different teams from different companies in different countries show up each year at the first race and about 99% of every car looks exactly like a rival team's car. It is quite amazing actually when you see how closely the cars designed by two teams in two different countries end up looking so alike each other. This is because they are all working under the same design rules and specifications. Engineers anywhere you go, think alike. Doesn't matter if they are Italian, British or French. When working under similar constraints, they usually come up with solutions that are very similar.
Nokia:HTC:MS :: McLaren:Ferrari:FIA
I am thinking this is what happened with HTC, Nokia and MS.
To draw on a Formula 1 racing analogy, 10 different teams from different companies in different countries show up each year at the first race and about 99% of every car looks exactly like a rival team's car. It is quite amazing actually when you see how closely the cars designed by two teams in two different countries end up looking so alike each other. This is because they are all working under the same design rules and specifications. Engineers anywhere you go, think alike. Doesn't matter if they are Italian, British or French. When working under similar constraints, they usually come up with solutions that are very similar.
Nokia:HTC:MS :: McLaren:Ferrari:FIA
I am thinking this is what happened with HTC, Nokia and MS.
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