Well, they write on their website that it is very prone to scratches and even recommend a cover, so I don't think so.
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Lame thread title but I will keep playing...
A -gate issue is something more permanent like Antennagate, Scruffgate, Bendgate, and Chipgate.
Fingerprints are CORRECTABLE. Takes a few seconds to wipe it off clean. Back to looking shiny. You are not stuck with it like the scruffs from that black/slate iPhone 5. If there is a so-called "Fingerprintgate", then many phones would be guilty of it too like the iPhone 4 series, Nexus 4, Sony Xperia Z series, Nokia N82, Motorola RAZR V3, matte black HTC Ones, Huawei P8 and P9, Xiaomi Mi 5, Project Zero-designed Samsung Galaxies, and any black phone you can think of would all have this "Fingerprintgate" you speak of.
Where have you been? And all black options at whatever material will attract fingerprints and dust. Again, have you been living under a rock? My black Honda Civic when I was 18 got dirty within a few days after a car wash. That's life. Oh, and if I wear a black shirt during a hot day, my body gets warmer than if say a white shirt. Black clothing also shows more lint and specks. I will lend you my two cents if you can buy yourself a common one.
I am more interested how well the water-resistance holds up. Most people are complaining about Apple not covering up for water damage. That's because most iPhone users aren't familiar with a water-resistant (not waterproof) phones. Samsung and Sony doesn't cover water damage either on their water-resistant phones.
I'm curious if this "Watergate" could damage the iPhone 7/7 Plus internally like the camera, speaker, or display over time by taking showers and swimming with it. Perhaps this is why Apple removed the headphone jack. Water-resistance is for extra line of defense for accidents. Not playing rubber ducky with your iPhone 7 daily while taking a bubble bath.
I remember when the PS4 slim got leaked a couple of weeks ago, I was laughing at all the dumb comments because of its uglier design than the original. LOL! Who cares? I don't buy consoles to look pretty. I want the PS4 slim to run cooler and quieter which it does. Less power draw too to save money on electricity bills. For a PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE FASHION ACCESSORY like some disposal iPhone, then maybe design is more important since it is with you everyday and many want to showoff that they have the same iPhone as everyone else, right?
After dealing with a couple ASUS products with less than 18 hrs standby time that I plan to sell off to get that uglier but cooler, quieter, less fingerprint magnet matte PS4 slim cash grab, I say screw design just to show off. At the end of the day, alot of us NEED a gadget that just works. Not something that looks shiny and pretty but aren't reliable like my crappy ASUS products with battery life that dies within the day without even using it.
A -gate issue is something more permanent like Antennagate, Scruffgate, Bendgate, and Chipgate.
Fingerprints are CORRECTABLE. Takes a few seconds to wipe it off clean. Back to looking shiny. You are not stuck with it like the scruffs from that black/slate iPhone 5. If there is a so-called "Fingerprintgate", then many phones would be guilty of it too like the iPhone 4 series, Nexus 4, Sony Xperia Z series, Nokia N82, Motorola RAZR V3, matte black HTC Ones, Huawei P8 and P9, Xiaomi Mi 5, Project Zero-designed Samsung Galaxies, and any black phone you can think of would all have this "Fingerprintgate" you speak of.
Where have you been? And all black options at whatever material will attract fingerprints and dust. Again, have you been living under a rock? My black Honda Civic when I was 18 got dirty within a few days after a car wash. That's life. Oh, and if I wear a black shirt during a hot day, my body gets warmer than if say a white shirt. Black clothing also shows more lint and specks. I will lend you my two cents if you can buy yourself a common one.
I am more interested how well the water-resistance holds up. Most people are complaining about Apple not covering up for water damage. That's because most iPhone users aren't familiar with a water-resistant (not waterproof) phones. Samsung and Sony doesn't cover water damage either on their water-resistant phones.
I'm curious if this "Watergate" could damage the iPhone 7/7 Plus internally like the camera, speaker, or display over time by taking showers and swimming with it. Perhaps this is why Apple removed the headphone jack. Water-resistance is for extra line of defense for accidents. Not playing rubber ducky with your iPhone 7 daily while taking a bubble bath.
I remember when the PS4 slim got leaked a couple of weeks ago, I was laughing at all the dumb comments because of its uglier design than the original. LOL! Who cares? I don't buy consoles to look pretty. I want the PS4 slim to run cooler and quieter which it does. Less power draw too to save money on electricity bills. For a PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE FASHION ACCESSORY like some disposal iPhone, then maybe design is more important since it is with you everyday and many want to showoff that they have the same iPhone as everyone else, right?
After dealing with a couple ASUS products with less than 18 hrs standby time that I plan to sell off to get that uglier but cooler, quieter, less fingerprint magnet matte PS4 slim cash grab, I say screw design just to show off. At the end of the day, alot of us NEED a gadget that just works. Not something that looks shiny and pretty but aren't reliable like my crappy ASUS products with battery life that dies within the day without even using it.
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I'll go ahead and get everyone started with the official "fingerprintgate" thread related to the new Jet Black finish. Feel free to start complaints and condemnation promptly upon receipt
Apple will give out free ones of these after the class action lawsuit...
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I got matte black but just a question, in this video she talks about how there's "stereo speakers" at the bottom of the phone...that's incorrect right? There's nothing under where the headphone jack used to be? Doesn't the stereos aspect of it come from the earpiece?
Why does everyone say, the jet black version will scratch very easily? Where do you get this from?
Go onto Apple's Sales website > click on iPhones, and look at the very fine print at the bottom (#2) for the jet black and you will read about fine scratches.
Yeah, it's a bit tedious listening to people whinge and complain about trivia.
The Jet Black iPhone 7 looks beautiful, but fingerprints is the reason why I didn't go with it. I have used the Samsung s7 and s7 edge before and it drives me nuts to see so many fingerprints, and I definitely do not like putting a case on my phones. I'm sure many people won't mind the fingerprints at all, but I just can't! I
Scratchgate, "Didn't know it would scratch THAT MUCH, they said the surface would be just as hard as the others!" and "OMG, it got scratches in my case!"
Also #modemgate, my intel modem looses connections constantly! (qualcom modems are more advanced, would be totally unthinkable they are better at working with weaker signals)
Why does everyone say, the jet black version will scratch very easily? Where do you get this from?
I don't get it either. Just because Apple put that it "may show fine micro-abrasions with use" people assume that it is going to scratch easily. It won't scratch any more easily than any other colour and it will get the same level of micro-abrasions, its' just that a black shiny surface will show these more! Same applies to fingerprints. People just need to decide whether or not they can live with that and move on.
The way people have escalated this out of all proportion Apple will do well to start selling these as an accessory line.......
if we have been living with the smudges and fingerprints on the almost jet black apple watch i am sure we shall survive with the jet black iPhone
It's usually the people who didn't purchase the JB justifying the purchase of the matte black (or other).
Anal retentive people are preoccupied about fingerprints. Those getting Jet Black have simply chosen not to be anal.
Couldn't you say the same thing about cars, for example? Some of us own very expensive cars for which we've paid top dollars. Should we expect the exterior to be un-scratchabe? And believe me... I am pretty anal about things being neat and beautiful. The reality is the the phone is a phone. If your heart sinks because it got a scratch, then maybe it's not for you. I see it this way... a year from now or two, I'll have a brand new phone again. This iPhone will be outdated, scratched, and ready to be donated or traded. I'll move onto the next thing. Such is life.
Plus, you can always use a case. I do, but only because I cracked the screen on my iPhone once like two weeks into the ownership. It's a business phone. I cannot imaging this happening when I'm overseas or on the road somewhere. The rest, not worth worrying about.
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I don't think that's necessary true. Some people take the finish and it's durability into consideration and make a decision based on what's best for them. It's okay to later voice an opinion. It doesn't mean they are "justifying" not buying the finish you find appealing.
It's okay to have an individual preference. To each their own.
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That's pretty funny
I don't have this problem. I have a butler who wears white gloves and handles the phone for me. At all times. He carries around a little dusty to keep it pristine. He sucks at Candy Crush, but with training he'll get better. In the mean time, I deduct the cost of extra lives from his salary. Each afternoon he rotates the phone slowly against strategically placed lighting and, of course, next to the hand-painted portrait for Jonny Ives - so that I may admire it's beauty and glance approvingly at her creator. Doesn't everyone do this?
Oh, you little people...I pity you
Fingerprint-resistant colors -
White, silver, and gray.
Get iPhone 7/7 Plus in silver if you can't tolerate fingerprints. Does a better job on both sides than a matte black would does for both sides. But you lose the contrast with video watching and the antenna lines doesn't hide at all.
Black in anything whether cars, shoes, appliances, clothing, and smartphones are not immune to lint, dust, smudges, etc. The advantage of black is it looks stealth and can match any color because it acts like the contrasting color. The disadvantages is it isn't immune to looking dirty. Even a black leather jacket and baseball cap and will show marks just like white socks.
"Fingerprintgate" was born the year the original iPhone and LG Prada were announced. Touchscreen phones all had this "Fingerprintgate" the moment we started using only our fingers to input commands on these touchscreen displays.
"Fingerprintgate" for the rears was born the year iPhone 4 was announced with a glass back. Then Sony, Huawei, and Samsung followed suit.
"Fingerprintgate" and "Scratchgate" was born put of the OCDness from the first iPhone. Nobody prior to 2007 ever heard of Corning Gorilla Glass or cared about scratch-resistant displays. Nobody really cared about scratching or smudges on their phone display. You need to know the history of phones before 2007 to understand this.
Do you remember a time when people were so anal with their BlackBerry Pearl, Motorola RAZR, or T-Mobile Sidekick? Were you whining about fingerprints or smudges ten years ago? Nobody cared about phones dealing with Antennagate, Scuffgate, Bendgate or Chipgate. The moment more sexy, luxurious smartphones that looked like jewelry started showing up is the moment our insecurities went up with it.
I really don't understand why people care about the fingerprints on the rear when the front gets them more. And isn't the front glass what we stare at like 99.9% during the day? Scratches on both sides is a different story but we just have to see our level of tolerance for them once they are out. Most of the early adopters of the Note7 and iPhone 7 are really guinea pigs for beta testing. Looking forward to your prissy complaints!
White, silver, and gray.
Get iPhone 7/7 Plus in silver if you can't tolerate fingerprints. Does a better job on both sides than a matte black would does for both sides. But you lose the contrast with video watching and the antenna lines doesn't hide at all.
Black in anything whether cars, shoes, appliances, clothing, and smartphones are not immune to lint, dust, smudges, etc. The advantage of black is it looks stealth and can match any color because it acts like the contrasting color. The disadvantages is it isn't immune to looking dirty. Even a black leather jacket and baseball cap and will show marks just like white socks.
"Fingerprintgate" was born the year the original iPhone and LG Prada were announced. Touchscreen phones all had this "Fingerprintgate" the moment we started using only our fingers to input commands on these touchscreen displays.
"Fingerprintgate" for the rears was born the year iPhone 4 was announced with a glass back. Then Sony, Huawei, and Samsung followed suit.
"Fingerprintgate" and "Scratchgate" was born put of the OCDness from the first iPhone. Nobody prior to 2007 ever heard of Corning Gorilla Glass or cared about scratch-resistant displays. Nobody really cared about scratching or smudges on their phone display. You need to know the history of phones before 2007 to understand this.
Do you remember a time when people were so anal with their BlackBerry Pearl, Motorola RAZR, or T-Mobile Sidekick? Were you whining about fingerprints or smudges ten years ago? Nobody cared about phones dealing with Antennagate, Scuffgate, Bendgate or Chipgate. The moment more sexy, luxurious smartphones that looked like jewelry started showing up is the moment our insecurities went up with it.
I really don't understand why people care about the fingerprints on the rear when the front gets them more. And isn't the front glass what we stare at like 99.9% during the day? Scratches on both sides is a different story but we just have to see our level of tolerance for them once they are out. Most of the early adopters of the Note7 and iPhone 7 are really guinea pigs for beta testing. Looking forward to your prissy complaints!
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Some of the hands-on videos made immediately after the launch showed scratches on the jet black case.
Well, considering their phones are catching fire and there hasn't been a "-gate" yet, I think that is a double standard that seemingly only applies to Apple products.