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(PRODUCT)RED iPhone 7 Plus Gets Black Front in New Part Swap Video
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Red/black would be my choice ... I just can't stand white fronts ...
good jobs for showing us what many of us will miss.
good jobs for showing us what many of us will miss.
It's clickbait. You do not need to sacrifice an iPhone for a replacement black screen / digitiser. Go to any 3rd party phone repair shop and they'll give you one for $100 approx. Which is what he did.
The only reason he's saying it was so expensive is to cash in on that YouTube destroy expensive tech tip. The lady doth protest too much...
Anyway, YouTube hustle aside - this is the correct colour matchup. Red Touch ID - as suggested by other commenters = cherry on top / bottom. Anyone left at Apple with any sense of aesthetics since Jobs passed? I'm looking at you iPhone red / Apple Watch band teams... awful crap.
Sorry I think a red Touch ID ring would have looked really tacky. It works with good and rose gold because those colors aren't so pronounced.
Lol how is this un-apple like? Its a combination of 2 very basic colors which looks great together which apple deals with already. Is a matte black iPhone Apple like? What about the semi reflective black Mac Pro? Black plastic Mac Book, Gold, Rose Gold? the list goes on man.
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I think people forgot that they actual produced a 24k Gold Apple Watch lol
Sad... this device had more storage than entry level iPhones released until September 2016
Agreed. Every time I looked at it I would think of Candy Canes. That would lead to Holiday Anxiety over the next Apple purchase. Just leave it alone !!!!!
I disagree....why? If your going to buy this kind of an iPhone you want people to notice it and ask you about it, seeing a red ring around the home button only enhances the uniqueness about owning this phone. I also think the red around the ring would be very subtle anyway and would blend right into that black. It's not going to stick out like it would with a white face.
It would seem than anyone with taste agrees with you.
And now we know why Apple's design aesthetic is copied worldwide, and why armchair "designers" aren't working for Apple. This is a really awkward combo - not terrible, but the red & white is SO much cleaner and fresher and appealing.
FWIW: My daily driver is a 6 Plus in Space Grey. Got bored one day and purchased a white face sans home button. Then just moved over the home button from the black face. Touch ID works just fine. Result:
I agree with you. Having a red iPhone shown to people online is like giving a can of red paint to people and asking them to paint a room with it, subtly and tastefully; just because you have the can of red paint, doesn't mean you need to fall for the temptation of painting everything RED.
Good taste and subtle design using nuance of colour balance and hinting is a rarity, and being tempted to go just that ONE step too far, is something most people cannot help themselves but to give in to.
If you want a red phone and already have a matte black or jet black, don't waste your money just to get a color. The phone does the same thing your current phone does.
What you can do is simple.
Buy a red skin, not case. Slap that red skin you bought for like $20-35 and bam you've got the same phone for WAY less.
I don't know who in their right mind at Apple thought that making a iPhone that cost you over 1K to look like an old iPod Touch.
What you can do is simple.
Buy a red skin, not case. Slap that red skin you bought for like $20-35 and bam you've got the same phone for WAY less.
I don't know who in their right mind at Apple thought that making a iPhone that cost you over 1K to look like an old iPod Touch.
I was annoyed with the white front on the red iPhone until I realized that the colour of the back doesn't matter because I always have an Apple silicone case on mine. My space grey 6 Plus has the red and black look covered well enough for me.
I think the black facing looks nice but it hardly seems worth the swap. I'd heard you'd need to have another iPhone to make the swap. I suppose a skin would be just as good for me if I was interested in changing the color, however, I honestly don't care what the color is. It would likely end up in a case for protection. I like using cases.
Exactly my point. When they went to a group of rock stars and decided to make an iPod that looked like them and not like ANYTHING Apple had previously made, that's what they went with.