Motorola P30 Copied Xiaomi Who In Turn Copied Apple

There's really no way around it – Motorola's joined the copycat club. This is apparently the Motorola P30, a device with a near-full-frontside display with a notch, a fingerprint sensor in the top middle of its back, and a pill-shaped set of cameras with its LED flash in the center. It's basically the Xiaomi Mi 8, a device which is basically an Android version of the iPhone X.

The Motorola P30 uses the naming conventions of the Huawei P series without precedent. If we only look at what Motorola's produced for smartphones in recent years, this industrial design looks like it's come out of nowhere. Lucky for us, we don't need to do that – we can look at other companies too.

In addition to the P-model name from Huawei, Motorola seems to have found a way to implement the mood ring sort of multicolored backside as executed in the P20 Pro and Honor 10. That's layered glass, mind you, and not necessarily the same solution used by Motorola here. Also Motorola's flipped the colors so... different?

This phone looks a lot like the leaked Motorola One from a few weeks ago. The camera array on the back is a little different – but it could very well be the same base design. There you'll find the same white backside as this final result, too.

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If you'll have a peek at the Xiaomi Mi 8, you'll find a very familiar design. I would also like to point out at this time that the design of the iPhone X is very similar to that of the Xiaomi Mi 8, and that the Motorola P30 is very similar to that of the iPhone X, and so on and so forth.

The Motorola P30 was tipped to roll with a 6.2-inch FHD+ display with 19:9 aspect ratio. Inside we're expecting a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 14nm SoC and 6GB RAM. There'll be a 16MP rear camera with LED flash, f/1.8 aperture, 1.25μm pixel size, and a 5MP secondary rear camera. Up front was tipped a 12MP front-facing camera, f/1.8 aperture at the top in the notch and the Motorola text word logo at the bottom.

ABOVE: The folks at MySmartPrice grabbed a few screenshots before Motorola realized they'd listed their new hero phone early in China. You can still see some pages cached through Google if you search the China-based Motorola website for Motorola P30.

There's apparently three versions of this phone – three colors, but two internal storage size options. One is Aurora, the other is "Bright Black", and the other is "Ice Jade White." Those words don't work together but there they are, making black and white seem like fantastically new bits of precious treasure.

One version of the phone has 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. The other version has 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage. Both will likely be available in China and South Korea first, then MAYBE elsewhere. We'll see soon enough.