With the next-generation iPhone - the iPhone Video? - a near certainty to be revealed on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, millions of iPhone 3G owners will stare longingly at their scuffed-up Apple smartphones and lust after a bright, shiny new model.
To the rescue comes veteran accessorizer RadTech. With the …
It would depend what the shiny bits were made of. Presumably, the iPhone being a penomenally high-quality product (just look at the price, it must be), it has a real chromed metal surround and can thus be polished up. I suspect Simoniz chrome cleaner would work just as well and you can clean the bumpers of your car with it too as a bonus.
Anything with the chrome-effect tacky-placcy stuff treated this way would have the shiny bits removed very quickly leaving you with a dull plastic bezel.
Paris, so you can see what dull plastic bezels look like.
not only is the babys bottom risky, its smoothness is overrated. In my native Geramny, we have a saying "Life is like a baby's bottom: rough, damp and windy."
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With the next-generation iPhone - the iPhone Video? - a near certainty to be revealed on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, millions of iPhone 3G owners will stare longingly at their scuffed-up Apple smartphones and lust after a bright, shiny new model. To the rescue comes veteran accessorizer RadTech. With the …
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Posted Monday 8th June 2009 01:28 GMT
Martin Lyne
Oh dear. #
I hope they'll make a version for other phones.
Unless, of course.. it does work for all phones?
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 07:59 GMT
Fihart
Save $8 #
Try one of those green pan scourers and finish off with T-Cut or Metal polish.
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 07:59 GMT
Ian Emery
Invalidate warrrenty?? #
and possibly have your Jesus phone confiscated/ service disconnected; after all, this is kit is NOT made by APPLE!!!
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 07:59 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Australia #
"smooth and soft as a baby's bottom"
Are you trying to get el reg added to australia's child-porn-site list?
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 07:59 GMT
TeeCee
Re: Oh dear. #
It would depend what the shiny bits were made of. Presumably, the iPhone being a penomenally high-quality product (just look at the price, it must be), it has a real chromed metal surround and can thus be polished up. I suspect Simoniz chrome cleaner would work just as well and you can clean the bumpers of your car with it too as a bonus.
Anything with the chrome-effect tacky-placcy stuff treated this way would have the shiny bits removed very quickly leaving you with a dull plastic bezel.
Paris, so you can see what dull plastic bezels look like.
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 09:43 GMT
Sebastian Brosig
Bottom: @AC 07:01 #
not only is the babys bottom risky, its smoothness is overrated. In my native Geramny, we have a saying "Life is like a baby's bottom: rough, damp and windy."
Posted Monday 8th June 2009 10:56 GMT
James Grinter
Original iPhone bezel was stainless steel. #
and the back was anodised aluminium.
Read the impressive work of analysis here - http://www.macmod.com/peripheral-mods/iphone/1562-iphone-custom
(I can't find any sign of the planned analysis of an iPhone 3G that the above article mentions.)
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