The overall design is the same as the design of the previous - generation devices, but the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus adopt new
glass bodies sandwiched in a matching aluminum frame.
Not exact matches
Try to imagine the
body as being
sandwiched between two panes of
glass.
The handset has a
glass body on front and back with metallic frame
sandwich between them.
Although Apple had started to move away from
glass with the iPhone 5 (which featured a unibody aluminium
body combined with
glass cutouts at the top and bottom) and went on to completely move away from it with the iPhone 6 in 2014 (full aluminium unibody with discrete antenna bands), Samsung opted to release a metal - and -
glass sandwich design with the Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge.
As mentioned, the iPhone 6S Plus features a full metal
body, while the Galaxy Note 5 sees its premium nature with a combination of a metal frame
sandwiched between two
glass panels.
A
glass body on
sandwiched between a metal frame and Samsung styled home button and fingerprint reader on the front, accompanied by capacitive buttons on either side.
The SGS5 follows previous devices in offering a mainly plastic construction, a far cry from the luxuriant feeling of the new HTC One's metal
body, or the
glass sandwich of the Sony Xperia Z2.