We’ve seen transparent iPhone 4s before. It’s a simple process, actually: just unscrew your iPhone 4 with a torx driver, then douse the back panel in acetone or naphtha until the black paint bubbles away. Screw the now transparent panels back on, and voila.
If you hate paint thinner fumes, though, and just want to avoid the part of the process that involves huffing dangerous chemicals, the lads over at M.I.C. Gadget are selling a transparent back panel for the iPhone 4 for just $23.90 each.
It certainly looks cool, seeing your iPhone’s silicon guts electronically pulsing beneath the handset’s translucent skin, but before you decide to do this mod yourself, just a warning: this mod is going to greatly downgrade the image quality of your iPhone 4’s camera. Apple has had a near impossible time preventing ambient light from leaking onto even the white iPhone 4s sensor. How do you think your camera’s going to do when it’s got an invisible skin?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
5 responses to “Order Yourself A Pre-Made Transparent iPhone 4 Back”
They should leave a black patch around the camera.
Interesting and informative post
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