At first glance, these phones look
like iterative upgrades but in reality it is a refinement of a formula that required very few «fixes» in the first place.
It seems
like an iterative upgrade from the ZenFone 3 with a Snapdragon 630 under the hood mated to 4 GB of RAM.
Not exact matches
Looks
like Xiaomi plans to make an
iterative upgrade to the Mix 2s by improving the internals of the phone, rather than making drastic hardware changes on the outside.
The general consensus isn't too surprising, even with the changes that Apple did implement: The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are
iterative upgrades when compared to the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus before them, with things
like Touch ID and bezels in place.