About a month ago the folks at ColorWare added iPhones to the ranks of Apple products that they will colorize. Using a process similar to that of painting cars, ColorWare will give your iPhone a customized paint job with lots of colors and chrome and metallic goodness. You can send in your iPhone or buy one already pimped out from the company.
The process is a bit pricey, though. Painting an iPhone costs around $150 and takes about three weeks to finish. If you want to buy a pre-painted iPhone direct from ColorWare just add $150 to the purchase price raising a 4GB iPhone to $649 and the 8GB model to $749. If you can afford it (and can bear to be without your iPhone for three weeks) the process makes your iPhone look totally cool.
There are 30 color choices to customize the back, bottom panel, home button, earbuds, logo, and docking station which makes…a lot of possible combinations. So many color combinations that my meager math abilities cannot calculate them all. But trust me…it’s a lot.
Dr. Macenstein recently got his very own colorized phone back from the company so take a trip over to his blog to see a bunch of pictures of a finished phone. He seems pretty happy with it and I think it looks super cool. Even if you don’t want to have your iPhone colorized it’s worth it to check out ColorWare’s site to play with the design studio. Check out my iPhone App Blog colorized phone!