“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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This definitely isn't a new form factor: Nokia 8110, nicknamed "banana" was curvy like this back in the mid-90s: http://mobiguru.ru/phones/nokia/nokia_8110.html
It's not a "new" form factor because they've been selling curved (non-mobile) phones for 100 years...