After three consecutive iPhone generations that each feature nearly
identical hardware designs, consumers are beginning to get antsy.
Identical hardware designed for growing cells during spaceflight were used for both the flight and ground studies.
Not exact matches
The dashboard tech on the new Audi S4 is nearly
identical to that of the A4, which means it's quite good — the best in the business, if you ask me, with its Nvidia - powered
hardware and smartly
designed Audi Connect software and Virtual Cockpit.
Visually speaking the
design of the new ASUS FonePad 7 is very reminiscent of the smaller Fonepad 6, with almost
identical placement of the speaker and
hardware buttons.
The Xbox One X
hardware design echoes the launch lineup, looking almost
identical to the Xbox One S.
Aesthetically, the Moto G is almost
identical to the Moto X. It's understated in its
design, with a slightly curved back and minimal
hardware buttons.
The phones are
identical to each other in terms of
design and both run Xiaomi's Android 7.1.2 Nougat - based MIUI 9 skin, but they differ in terms of under - the - hood
hardware — namely, the chipset, battery, and memory.
The Mountain View - based giant last year partnered with Indian vendors Karbonn Mobiles, Spice, and Micromax to provide them with the
design guidelines to place
identical hardware specs and stock Android OS with fast lane updates.
The new Surface Pro device that these keyboard covers are likely
designed for will be a simple
hardware refresh of the existing Surface Pro 4, with an almost
identical design to the existing versions.
Asus also offers the G751JT, which boasts an
identical design, and similar
hardware, but has a GTX 970M in it instead of the GTX 980M.
These two phones, which at the core are
identical, build nicely on Motorola's
hardware and
design chops, leveraging plenty of what it learned from the Moto X Pure Edition, Moto X Play and Droid Maxx 2 of 2015 — and they're super exciting.
The external
hardware design of the OnePlus 3T is
identical to that of the original OnePlus 3, so I won't get into the minutiae of the
hardware details yet again.
Overall, the
design and
hardware will be almost
identical to the X7 series released earlier in the year.