Apple Claims "Plastic Perfected" With iPhone 5C
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A better plastic than all the other plastics?
Apple is a master of showmanship. Often when unveiling new products, Apple will take an existing idea, adapt it, and then sing its merits like it's a whole new innovation. Now Apple is doing the same thing with the iPhone 5C with a video it calls "Plastic Perfected."
Apple - iPhone 5c - TV Ad - Plastic Perfected
While we're quite satisfied with the level of fit and finish on the iPhone 5C, to say it's "plastic perfected" is a title we feel belongs to Nokia's flagship Lumia line.
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Nice.
I'd also say "How to blur the line between communication device and children's toy" also works.
I always thought it was idiotic to use a material that produces signal interference, in the case design of a communication device.
And sure, anodized aluminum has a nice metal look... but any color treatment is usually easily scratch-able, it dents fairly easy, doesn't do anything to help absorb impact if the phone is dropped, and it's freaking slippery.
So, I'm actually happy about plastic colored iPhones.
I always thought it was idiotic to use a material that produces signal interference, in the case design of a communication device.
And sure, anodized aluminum has a nice metal look... but any color treatment is usually easily scratch-able, it dents fairly easy, doesn't do anything to help absorb impact if the phone is dropped, and it's freaking slippery.
So, I'm actually happy about plastic colored iPhones.
Plastic is a color?
lol
plastic is able to absorb the shock of a fall much better than a aluminum/glass scaffold. I'm surprised that they haven't touted this as revolutionary to the gullible masses.
All the other phone manufacturers are selling devices that are complete junk within a year, either through (poor) design or obsolescence, so they don't invest as heavily in the materials as Apple. They also don't seem to be investing in support either, since quite a number of phones rarely (if ever) see an Android update beyond the version it's sold with. And most consumers seem to be quite content with that, opting instead to buy a new phone every year.
It probably would have been more correct to say "colored plastic iPhones", but it's not like there's an edit button.
Watch the language. - G
The silver lining, is maybe companies will stop copying Apple's idea of using aluminum as a build material.
I always thought it was idiotic to use a material that produces signal interference, in the case design of a communication device.
And sure, anodized aluminum has a nice metal look... but any color treatment is usually easily scratch-able, it dents fairly easy, doesn't do anything to help absorb impact if the phone is dropped, and it's freaking slippery.
So, I'm actually happy about plastic colored iPhones.
Sorry didn't mean to down vote just wanted to clear up a mistake so my apologies. Actually aluminum does absorb impact and transfers the impact into itself as it were. That's the beauty of aluminum but also the crux of it. So it will protect better the internals but it deforms easier. Anodized aluminum less so then untreated but still its better for impact then steel itself.
All the other phone manufacturers are selling devices that are complete junk within a year, either through (poor) design or obsolescence, so they don't invest as heavily in the materials as Apple. They also don't seem to be investing in support either, since quite a number of phones rarely (if ever) see an Android update beyond the version it's sold with. And most consumers seem to be quite content with that, opting instead to buy a new phone every year.