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Why Starlight is the best new Apple color
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To be honest, I’ve seen the sierra blue iPhone in person, and I don’t quite like it. I find much more beautiful the regular blue iPhone 13
If I have to have the Starlight product in specific lighting (and angles) to see the subtle difference in shade, I don't see how Starlight would be the one I should look to.
In my opinion, the Starlight phone does resemble the marketing pictures. I saw the phone at the store last week. I’ve also watched every review on YouTube that I could find, and this is my favorite so far:
That said, I don’t know of the starlight finish on the watch will be exactly like the phone, which has a kind of pearly finish. The watches I’ve had in the past seem to have a flatter finish.
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I hope you are correct. But I have a feeling that many people who like silver are going to find it too yellow/beige/gold and those who like gold aren’t going to find it gold enough. I need to see it in person on the watch, but I’m in the former category when it came to seeing the Starlight iPad mini in person. And at least to me the color of the watch is much more important than the color of an iPad (since I put iPads in cases anyway).
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I don’t know if this will help. I took the screen shots of the silver Apple Watch SE and compared it to the Starlight Apple Watch. I know this isn’t real world appearances but we can get a sense of how the colors play against the band colors and in the case of the sport band, how the case colors match to the silver button on the band, which appears to remain unchanged from what we’ve always seen.
For what it’s worth I love the white gold color. That’s what it looks like to me, white gold.
At least it will go with any color band which is not the case for all the other aluminum watches. Well maybe not my silver milanese ;-))
My original wedding ring set and one of my anniversary rings were yellow gold. But my weight changed and the rings couldn’t be resized without the design being pretty much destroyed, so I wore affordable silver costume jewelry replacements for years. There’s a possibility the anniversary ring might be safely remade. But we don’t feel up to going through that process right now.
When my mother-in-law passed away, she had more than one wedding ring set and two of her newer white gold rings went to me and fortunately fit me. I wore them to our vow renewal and now they truly feel like they’re mine as well as a reminder of my beloved “second mom.”
These white gold rings are the jewelry I’m most eager to match the Apple Watch to and now I finally think with Starlight, I’m close! That’s why I ordered when I saw it, even though I was not planning to trade in my black aluminum Nike sport this year. It’s barely a year old, after all. I don’t tend to upgrade watches the way I do iPhones.
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I think she will love it.
Starlight looks indeed a bit like silver with a light golden touch. As a star is not pure white it always has a bit of yellow/gold in it.
I saw this color in stereos or expensive mics like this Neumann microphone. And I love this color lots.
I just showed your photos to my husband. His first impression was that it’s 🍾
I was also hoping for better battery life. But I’ll content myself with the faster charging for now.
My daughter ordered a Starlight, so I guess I’ll get to see what I think of it when it arrives!
I like the combo of starlight and abyss blue braided loop. Looks classy, but not boring. To me, anyway.
It is funny because when the iPhone 12 was announced, I thought the frame looked creamy white / the color starlight now has, and it looked cool, but when I received it, it was normal silver aluminium. Guess they finally changed this for the 13 and now starlight for the watch.
I like the color but I am worried that it is hard to match with many of my bands.
I like the color but I am worried that it is hard to match with many of my bands.
The iPhone 12’s white color is not the same as the 13’s starlight.
Do report back on your impressions of rhe color when you get your “Starlight” watches! Perhaps even post pictures of them next to objects others are likely to have.
By the way, stars come in an enormous range of colors, from hot white, blue-white, blue to color yellow such as our Sun, to all shorts of shades of orange and red. Their color depends upon their temperatures — hot stars such Vega and Sirius are in the white-blue range, warm stars such as Capella, Alpha Centauri, and the Sun are yellow, while cooler giant stars such as Betelgeuse are orange-red, and often are pulsating variables, and then there a bunch of cold dwarf stars that are deep red and quite striking in color even in small telescopes or spotting scopes.
You can see these color differences with the naked eye and even better in binocs or a small scope.
The hot blue and white ones burn furiously, may live only tens of millions of years. The cold red dwarfs live forever, even hundreds of billions of years, cool embers that last and last. The Sun is in the middle. 5 billion years old with another 5 to go.
In any case, so much for a mini-astro detour, but the moniker “starlight” as a single color is quite misleading. Apple should start coming out with colors,named Sirius white, Capella gold, Betelgeuse orange, and Mira red!
By the way, stars come in an enormous range of colors, from hot white, blue-white, blue to color yellow such as our Sun, to all shorts of shades of orange and red. Their color depends upon their temperatures — hot stars such Vega and Sirius are in the white-blue range, warm stars such as Capella, Alpha Centauri, and the Sun are yellow, while cooler giant stars such as Betelgeuse are orange-red, and often are pulsating variables, and then there a bunch of cold dwarf stars that are deep red and quite striking in color even in small telescopes or spotting scopes.
You can see these color differences with the naked eye and even better in binocs or a small scope.
The hot blue and white ones burn furiously, may live only tens of millions of years. The cold red dwarfs live forever, even hundreds of billions of years, cool embers that last and last. The Sun is in the middle. 5 billion years old with another 5 to go.
In any case, so much for a mini-astro detour, but the moniker “starlight” as a single color is quite misleading. Apple should start coming out with colors,named Sirius white, Capella gold, Betelgeuse orange, and Mira red!