Today's Smartphone industry can be considered very saturated if one will look carefully on how many brands are competing for the sale. Good thing though is smartphones, in today's day and age, is already a commodity. There will always be brands that will come out as the leader and Samsung is arguably considered as the number 1 smartphone manufacturer as of the moment. Samsung is already a household name for its long history of sold phones and climbing all the way up to battle with Apple. In an effort to grab the top spot, there are allegations surrounding the company that they modeled their Samsung Galaxy Series to the iPhone. This was confirmed when executives created a confidential 132-page internal document detailing exactly how engineers should copy the iPhone pixel by pixel. Samsung's Galaxy smartphones improved by leaps and bounds after their software was reworked in the iPhone's image, and since then, the company has worked to veer away from iOS and carve out its own path.
When it comes to allegations that Samsung may have stolen various physical design elements from Apple devices, however, it looks like Samsung's biggest iPhone ripoff is yet to come.
GSMArena on Friday released an image of what it claims is Samsung's upcoming Galaxy F, which is rumored to be the top-tier version of the company's flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone. According to previous reports, the Galaxy F features a 5.3-inch quad HD display, a next-generation quad-core Snapdragon processor, 3GB of RAM, a 16-megapixel rear camera, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, microSDXC support and Android KitKat.
To add up, there were several purported renders of the Galaxy F, and it looks awesome. The edges of the phone are yet to be seen, however, and this supposed live image may shed light on a surprising design element: If this photo is real, Samsung deliberately stole the design from Apple's iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s by wrapping the edges of the phone with an aluminum border that has polished, chamfered edges.
It is worth noting that Samsung wouldn't be the first smartphone maker to steal this key trademark design from Apple, but the move would obviously be a head scratcher considering the companies' ongoing legal issues.
Here's the leaked image that supposedly shows Samsung's upcoming Galaxy F: click here.
And here is Apple's iPhone 5s: click here.
