People are roasting Motorola's new phone for looking like an exact copy of the iPhone X

iphoneX vs P30

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• Motorola launched a new phone this week, the P30.

• Promotional images make it look nearly identical to Apple's marketing for the iPhone X — all the way down to the wallpapers. 

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If you're in the market for a new Android phone, you can do worse than the Motorola P30, a roughly $350 device with some quality parts, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip and 128GB of storage.

People might also mistake it for a device that costs three times as much: the $1,000 Apple iPhone X, which was launched last fall. 

Photos of the new China-bound device were made official on Thursday, and not only do the phones share a lot of design details — a vertical camera, a "notch" on the front of the screen — the promotional images look nearly identical. Even the default wallpapers on the two devices are very similar. 

There is one way to tell them apart, though: Motorola has a big logo on the front of the device. 

Naturally, tech fans and enthusiasts immediately started roasting the Levovo-owned phonemaker for ripping off Apple's design: 

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[MOTOROLA HQ]

Product manager: Our next flagship should follow iPhone X aesthetics, but that Huawei shit is selling hot.

Designers: Say no more. pic.twitter.com/KsnQ6NfDCZ Tweet Embed:
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Introducing Motorola P30 Pro: Our most shameless rip yet 😦https://t.co/mtnfEPb2ET pic.twitter.com/7f49CwZNTd Tweet Embed:
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Samsung should run this as an ad lol

Can't find the original, but... add Motorola to the line too pic.twitter.com/qcXsSYculS Tweet Embed:
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Jony Ive, Chief Design Officer for the entire smartphone industry. pic.twitter.com/wxBXjNwFV8 Tweet Embed:
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Good artists copy but great artists steal... so I guess that makes Motorola good. 😋

Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job https://t.co/gNraYCyOFK #innovation #tech pic.twitter.com/jwA5jIeADQ Tweet Embed:
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Motorola: Can I copy your homework?
Apple: Sure just change it a little so it's not obvious
Motorola: *doesn't listen* pic.twitter.com/jkbiNojhyW Tweet Embed:
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Wth Motorola??? You shamelessly rip off Apple for your new phone 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

Even the BBC got in on the mockery:

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Spot the difference? 🤔https://t.co/kk6YKUXCsJ

Decide for yourself. Here's an official image of the Motorola P30:

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Motorola

And here's Apple's iPhone X: 

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Apple

 

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