Android phones everywhere are copying the iPhone X's signature design, and it looks like Google's next Pixel phone will do the same (AAPL)

Last September, Apple unveiled a smartphone that looked like none before it:

With the iPhone X, Apple ditched its traditional design in favor of something new: an edge-to-edge design with no home button.

The new display almost takes up almost the whole front of the phone, but not quite. Apple cut out a little "notch" to house its front-facing camera and other sensors that power Face ID, which replaces Touch ID as the main authentication method in the iPhone X.

Not everyone loves the notch. But Apple wanted its tenth-anniversary iPhone to have an edge-to-edge screen and a front-facing camera, and that's the compromise Apple came up with, love it or hate it.

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