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With iPhones selling like hot cakes that have web browsing, call making and photo taking capabilities, it is hard to make your device really sit out from the crowd. Well, Mark over at Geek Technique has given his iPhone a rather striking retro black paint job, topped off with the old technicolor Apple logo. We think the Newton/iPhone love child looks rather dashing; don't believe us? Check out the gallery below:
If it were not for the fact you have to take an aerosol can to your iPhone to reach the desired effect, we would be on board for the redesign to our Jesus phone's casing. As it is, we think we shall give it a miss. Mark has a step by step run through of how he arrived at the end product over at Geek Technique. If you're feeling brave/stupid, give it a whirl and send us the pictures of your remorseful face when it all goes horribly, horribly wrong. Just like that time you unwittingly agreed to a threesome—horribly, horribly wrong. [Geek Technique]
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I would buy this if it came in a protective case version.
wow that's radical. i'm sure apple thinks it's illegal too. god would forbid you modding your own property.
Sweet I have one of those logos and a newton maybe i should try it only thing is i would need to find a better way to put the logo on I don't like the fact he needed to raise the surface on the front to install the logo. The logo should be in the original button.
@TheJunkMonger: Nevertheless, the results are professional grade.
My only gripe: get a professional white backdrop and light set-up. They're available widely for eBay use. The pr0n shot is spoiled by the paper towel.
@foureight84: Dude, just don't expect Apple to support it. Apple couldn't care less what you do with your own property (get their direct quotes from comments about AppleTV hacking). If you send it in for warranty repair because it refuses to work, and they find black goo inside because you dunked it in paint... don't expect them to say, "Oh, no problem sir!" I mean... duh.
Why not just get it professionally done at a place like ColorWare Inc.? Totally customizable, and forget the Apple warranty because they offer one.
It's gorgeous, but there's no way I'd attempt it.
@TheJunkMonger:
Agreed. I don't like the raised portion partially from a looks point of view, but more because of the fact that it would restrict access to the bottom of the screen. Part of what's so nice about the iPhone touch screen in relation to other touchscreens is the lack of a raised bezel.
Nice job. Looks Fantastic!
came out beautifully =)
i like it
@Cleverboy: i was referring to the patch to make unlocked phones unusable.
Very nice job. This reminds me of spray-painting my electric guitar hot pink back in the early nineties.
@foureight84: "i was referring to the patch to make unlocked phones unusable."
The patch has not been determined by anyone, nor by any admission of Apple that it was designed to make modded phones unusable, so really this is assumption. If Apple had, by design, crafted a patch that would specifically target phones and brick them, it would've rendered them all useless. But that's not what happened.
This could be modded for a case to slip over... that may be less imtimidating than actually spray painting your iphone.
I do wish the back plate was black. It would blend in way better with the antenna and the rest of the phone. Black and chrome would've been really sexy.
Does the orginal logo meant to attract the gay rights crowd? I think they already own Mac products. PC Owns.
the guy is too busy to check his email!....200 wow
Looks nice. But you know what would be waay waaaaay funnier than that?
Modding it with a Windows logo or something.
And then, sending it to Jobs.
Oh wow. Just thinking of it already fills my mouth with water... lol
they should make cases like this, and also for the touch, not just the iPhone. it would sell really well if it didn't involve modding.
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