Anyone else miss space grey?

[canopic]

I love the space grey macbook 12. The 5 and 5S in slate and space grey also looked slick.

The iPhone 6 / 6S coulda been a tad darker, but I liked em.

7 is a nice change, but yeah, I miss grey. Ideally I would have preferred space grey to stay in a slightly darker shade, and then just have one black rather than two, but it's fun for them to experiment a bit, who knows what we will get next year.

 

[rainafterthesun]

Nope

If they didn't do all black I would have stuck with white and rose gold

I like all black better.

 

[iSocialista]

Hate SG with a passion. Love both of the new blacks.

 

[valinda]

Don't miss space grey from the 5 series. I have the matte black and it's very sleek looking, not boring at all.

 

[UnluckyXIII]

Matte Black all the way, I believe the Space Grey was only so popular as it was the "next best thing" to a black phone

 

[x-evil-x]

YES. Not impressed with MB or JB. Somehow looks dull.

Matte black is technically dull. Thats what it is. Like saying you hate gloss black because its glossy
[doublepost=1474277193][/doublepost]The matte black imo is what the 6/6s should of always been.Probably my favorite color out of any iPhone I've had all the way back to 3g. I have been careless since iPhone 4(second favorite black).
Id like them to have a glass phone again for the next phone. More iPhone 4 look with the class inside the aluminum or stainless frame to prevent breaks. The main thing i hated about the 4 was the glass stuck out.

 

[jk4lebron23]

I hated my SG 6+ with a passion, might as well have gotten the silver because it wasn't much darker! Absolutely loving my 7+ MB though!
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To me , colour is irrelevant as i always use a case. But if i had to choose, i would go with matte black. Space grey is nice too, Jet black looks like a chinese knock off.

That's the best I've heard the JB described, it really does look like a Chinese knockoff.

I'd kill for a red back black front iPhone!

 

[phillytim]

I went back to Space Gray last year, and already wishing I could get back to a white-bezel phone. It's really for those who wanted silver with black bezel, more/less. It's great, I'm glad to have tried it; but I'm ready to move on.

 

[Savor]

Never cared for the space gray in the 6 series but in fairness, it does hide oily smudges better than say matte black. White, gray, and silver can resist them better than darker colors. But other than that, I prefer the matte black and jet black 7/7+ based purely on aesthetics.

Space gray was the solution to the slate iPhone 5's Scuffgate. Honestly, space gray in 5s and SE might be the last great design I ever liked from an iPhone. Haven't really cared about an iPhone design since 2013. HTC surpassed Apple in design by 2013. Samsung surpassed them all by 2015.

No antenna lines and black top/bottom made this 5s the final classiest rear design I ever saw from Apple. This or the silver 5s/SE...

Don't really care for the screen size of the 5s or SE though. A "4.5 display is my bare minimum. The 5 series was also too boxy. The 6 series might feel slippery but rest comfortably when gripped and no case.

I still like the glacial silver HTC One M7 design more than any color of the 5s and SE. The Man o' War of smartphone touchscreen design was the original iPhone. Nobody could catch up to its design until maybe the Nexus One or iPhone 4 in 2010. Okay, maybe the Xperia X1 in 2008.

Then I felt Nokia came out with the N9 in 2011 that blew them all away. In 2012, I didn't like many designs except for maybe the Nexus 4, HTC Windows 8, and Sony Xperia S. Then HTC took over with the M7 and M8 before Samsung ruled with S6 edge, S6 edge+, S7 edge, and Note7 during the past 18 months.

The last three iPhones from 6 to 7 have average designs to me. The 5s is great and maybe a favorite to many users here, but I have seen better and held more comfortable phones over the years. Can no longer text fast or play Plants v Zombies 2 without messing up on that tiny "4 display. Nice designs but no thanks, 5s or SE.

 

[Jordan921]

I feel like I'm the only one that liked the black silver combination. Looked more premium to me.

I got matte black and it's just so boring. Any other space grey fans?

Nope loving my matte black 7 plus.

 

[Rok73]

Absolutely not. Space grey was an ugly color IMO. The iPhone 5 looked nice and the new 7 in matte black does, too.

 

[cdmoore74]

I don't miss it one bit. Apple did right with the 2 new black colors. I picked the MB but the JB looks better until you have scratches.

 

[mtneer]

Just wait out an upgrade cycle of two. My hunch is that space grey will be back once we have enough howls of "scuffgate" or "microabrasiongate" from many people out there rushing to buy JB and blacks now. It will be deja vu 5S and 2013 once again..

 

[noobinator]

Space gray was the most boring, uninspired color. I chose it only because the other choices were even worse. I'd love if the ceramic/glass iPhone 8 went back to two choices: Black or White.

 

[iteklog]

No.. i was not really a fan of space grey, only reason why i got it was because its the closest to black.

I love my slate black iphone 7, so beautiful!

 

[thadoggfather]

hell no i dont miss space grey. it was impressively bleak

 

[x-evil-x]

Just wait out an upgrade cycle of two. My hunch is that space grey will be back once we have enough howls of "scuffgate" or "microabrasiongate" from many people out there rushing to buy JB and blacks now. It will be deja vu 5S and 2013 once again..

You don't think a company learns from its mistakes?

 

[mtneer]

You don't think a company learns from its mistakes?

The learning is in the fine print they put out on the JB tech specs page warning about microabrasions. Now, I am not a lawyer, so I cant tell if that offers any protection from future class actions, but a bunch of whining customers are more persuasive than any lawyer can be..

 

[x-evil-x]

The learning is in the fine print they put out on the JB tech specs page warning about microabrasions. Now, I am not a lawyer, so I cant tell if that offers any protection from future class actions, but a bunch of whining customers are more persuasive than any lawyer can be..

I was more so talking about the matte black. I don't see them having the slate problem they had with the matte black color. Not sure their logic on jet black really. Too early to tell if it will be iPhone 3 type scratches. I didn't think that was too bad but mine was always in a case back then.

 

[satchmo]

I feel like I'm the only one that liked the black silver combination. Looked more premium to me.

I got matte black and it's just so boring. Any other space grey fans?

I don't miss space grey per se, but the current matte black one is indeed very bland. The ringless camera bump really makes this phone look downright cheap. Add to that, it greatly shows fingerprints.
If Apple is asking for upwards of $700, it needs to bring sexy back. IMO, simply making it black doesn't achieve that.

 

[malevolant]

I feel like I'm the only one that liked the black silver combination. Looked more premium to me.

I got matte black and it's just so boring. Any other space grey fans?

I don't miss it at all. I love my matte black phone. Looks way more classy tbh

 

[mtneer]

I was more so talking about the matte black. I don't see them having the slate problem they had with the matte black color. Not sure their logic on jet black really. Too early to tell if it will be iPhone 3 type scratches. I didn't think that was too bad but mine was always in a case back then.

You are right. Hope that they did do something with the materials or manufacturing on the matte black finish to avoid the pitfalls encountered on the iPhone 5. As for the iPhone 3 series, I think that the case was made of plastic, so they wouldn't really be comparable to the materials used today. But, I think that JB fineprint warning is probably something Apple's lawyers wanted to put out front, considering how the US legal system works.

 

[x-evil-x]

It was plastic but it was high gloss black. People complained about the fine scratches on that if you look up old pics. Most similar finish besides the shiny 5c phones.
The issue with the slate was the Chamber edge something the 6 doesn't have.

 

[bevsb2]

I don't miss it. I love my matte black phone. Actually I like all the colors and like to change color with each update - it looks more like a new phone that way.

 

[Talkingtoaster]

I feel like I'm the only one that liked the black silver combination. Looked more premium to me.

I got matte black and it's just so boring. Any other space grey fans?

Yes and no. No because there was no such thing as space grey, it had a hundred various shades. The 5s and ipad mini version was perfect. The apple watch one is lovely too. The 6s one... what a joke.

Having seen the 7 matte black, yes its dull and would of looked really nice in a dark space grey like the old colour or the apple watch, or even the macbook.