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This post in another thread shows off the Sierra Blue so well! https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...y.2310742/page-10?post=30276656#post-30276656

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The new colour every year is always the most popular one. Novelty and easily identifiable to be the latest and greatest.

Sierra Blue here I come!
LETS GOOOOOO!!! 💙

Do you know how I can get in contact with TNT via phone, keep going around in circles with their stupid automated voice system 🤦‍♂️
 
LETS GOOOOOO!!! 💙

Do you know how I can get in contact with TNT via phone, keep going around in circles with their stupid automated voice system 🤦‍♂️
Not sure mate sorry. Never called them directly. They’ve always delivered iPhones on launch day for me as they’re all overnight expresses.
 
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Not sure mate sorry. Never called them directly. They’ve always delivered iPhones on launch day for me as they’re all overnight expresses.
Found it 😁 on hold 🤦‍♂️ They didn’t deliver last year over here on a public holiday 🤬🤦‍♂️
 
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I would have loved it if they would have offered a matte black or even a special edition jet black version.
I think the current iPhone would have pulled it off well.
Oh well, Sierra blue it is.
 
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Same with me. I initially saw the Blue and said that I’m going to stick with Silver. But over the last two days the Blue has really grown on me. The wild card for me though is that the Blue will surely sell out faster, so a part of me still thinks I should just stick with Silver. I have about another day to decide.
 
Haven’t had a case on my phones for years now. I always ensure I have a solid grip on my phone if it’s not in my pocket or bag, and if it gets accidentally dropped/scratched, I’ll just deal with it, or get a new one. 🤷🏼

But, that’s my use-case scenario. Others have more dramatic lifestyles that necessitate such protection.

I would try it - Definitely would need Apple care because I do drop my phone about like once a month or once every two months I’m sure

I am not sure what it is but I have dry hands, and iPhones have been slippery for many years now - in my personal experience as a person maybe with dry hands.

I have had every iPhone since the first one. I guess up till iPhone 4 or something maybe I had no case. I think we still have a working one laying around somewhere. It’s so cool to go see an old iPhone and compare the size and then look at the screens. Wow.

Anyway I think I did like having no case on the phone. I really don’t care about scratches and so forth.

The case is just so that I can get a decent grip.

I went through two leather cases on the iPhone 12 promax. And my second case is already showing lots of wear. So yeah I need a new iPhone every year. I can’t wait to receive the iPhone 13 promax. I’m wondering if I can make like a Quentin Tarantino style movie using it!
 
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I also thought the colors were kind of weak. However, I suspect after purple provided such a big boost mid-year, Apple will purposefully holding back desirable colors going forward.
 
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No black is a travesty, baby ****ing blue? Seriously? No black pro models but you can get black on the base 13. Pathetic.

Edit to add, I don’t mind the blue, the more colors the better! But Black phones have always looked the best, the iPhone 7 was the last true black we had, and people went absolutely bonkers over jet black. Why would they not let us have a black color for the pros? And with all this hullabaloo over “cinematic video”, and portraying this phone as something you can make professional films with, not having a black version is ridiculous. Has anyone ever seen a baby blue camera on a set? I haven’t. On sets you do see a lot of black though, black cameras, black lighting, black everything, black gaffe tape, I’ve never seen a shiny baby blue camera on any set anywhere. It’s almost like Apple lives in a Barbie world.
Agree on all counts! I left my 7 for the 11 kicking and screaming. I still miss it. 😔

smh baby blue sigh
 
Colors on the Pro models leave something to be desired
Also Apple has cut back on their Leather cases to only 5 colors
I’m not feeling the enthusiasm that we felt for the 12
I remember years back Steve Jobs was quoted saying ‘They’ll buy whatever we give them ‘ and looks like we’re seeing it
 
Midnight Green was the nicest Pro color to me, it was unique in that it wasn't bright but still played with the light at certain angles. Subdued in a way I feel the blues and golds have not been. I will say I prefer this year's blue to last year's, it just reminds me of being on the beach at Tofino during a overcast day.

What I really want to see is a deep maroon or cranberry matte color, I think that could easily be the best color choice. Subdued enough to still feel like a Pro color but vibrant in a way that it doesn't seem like grey in many lighting situations. The regular red 13 seems to be the darkest red since the XR at least.
 
Here's a bold prediction: Rather than adding a new color to the non-pro lineup, like they did last year with the purple, we will see a new color addition to the pro lineup in spring. Matte black or bronze, hence the rumors.
 
I really, really like Sierra Blue. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I also like the gold and white/silver. The grey is terrible, IMO.

If you think the colour options on the Pro models is bad, imagine how non-Pro customers feel!!!
 
Think i’m settled on graphite. Frustrated there was no matte black

Agree, I was really hoping for that or at least to darken up the gray a little more to give it a different look. Oh well there is always next year. The other colors really don't do it for me. Silver and Gold are meh and the Blue I would never be caught dead with that color phone even though I like it better than last years Blue....just not me.
 
I will be taking my Sierra Blue into the board room and will be proud of it.
Great! Proves the point that the color doesn't change its "professionalism". You're happy with the blue, I'd be very happy taking a Product Red Iphone Pro Max to work as well... the argument that the color isnt Pro enough just doesn't make sense, and whether a color makes something look like a toy is completely subjective.
 
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I feel there's always a huge discrepancy between how the colors and materials look in the renders and how they look in real life.

The only ones I like are the 13 Product RED and the baby blue Pro. However, I don't know if I'd actually want to use or walk around with either of those irl. It's too hard to say what they look like and sometimes the finish just looks too tacky, like the nouveau riche paint job on a classy sportscar. Don't like that.

For once, the Product RED seems to be the right hue and not the slightly pale one they did for the 12.

It's beyond me though why they seemingly refuse to do Product RED for the flagship/Pro models: There's was no Product RED for the X, Xs, 11 Pro, 12 Pro, 13 Pro -Why? I feel a deep, dark red steel would look really good for the Pros.
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