It’s easy to forget but there was a time when smartphones weren’t nearly as stylish as today’s big-name devices such as the iPhone 5s, the Galaxy S4, the HTC One or the Lumia 1020. In fact, as Business Insider’s Jay Yarrow points out, pretty much every phone released at around the same time as the first iPhone had a boxy, unattractive build highlighted by a tiny, pixel-poor display crowded out by full QWERTY keyboard. Although BlackBerry showed that it was certainly possible to make stylish QWERTY smartphones during its heyday, these devices were the exception and not the rule. To illustrate his point, Yarrow snags the following graphic from a six-year-old AllThingsD article showing all of the iPhone’s main competitors



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