No, it looks bad. That's part of the reason no-one else does it, or in the case of HTC does it better.
It looks bad for you.. who doesn't seem to have a good taste in design judging from the phone you picked. You seem to prefer different to good or think different automatically = good. Or you're just too obsessed with this band from leaks (which it looked awful) and didn't bother to look at it from most recent leak.
Disclaimer: I'm a (graphic) design graduate.