[s1mon]

For $7.50 you can get a dummy phone which looks a lot more realistic. A quick search on Aliexpress shows this for the iPhone X, and there are plenty of other options. (I had a bunch of the iPhone 8 models for a work project. The only downside is the glass is most definitely NOT Gorilla Glass).

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001708486523.html

[pfundstein]

I don't think mimicking a real phone as closely as possible is the intent

[earthboundkid]

Back when I lived in Japan, stores had plastic dummy phones to show you what they looked like and let you pick them up. I guess that went away when the “Galapagos style” phones died off.

[pfundstein]

They still do that in restaurants with displays of incredibly realistic fake food called sampuru, there's a huge industry around it.