In my seemingly never-ending quest to find the ultimate replacement metal back for my iPhone 4, I stumbled across these beauties by Mas Elements in the forums at MacRumors. While they’re still not officially taking orders from the general public yet, I was able to order one of them today – I chose the Black Titanium one in the picture above.
I’ve tried several replacement metal backs for my iPhone and have been most happy with a beveled one from cnn.cn that looks just like this. However, it does produce a little vignetting with the camera lens and it makes the iPhone 4 a tiny bit thicker, which means it won’t work with any fitted cases. The flat backs I’ve purchased from eBay have all been flimsy and cheaply-made.
I think the iPhone 4 is a beautifully-designed device overall but I am quite disappointed with Apple’s materials selections here. Who in their right mind makes a highly-droppable piece of expensive electronics primarily out of glass? Really, Apple? Really? With that said, I take very good care of my iPhone in general and do my best to make sure it doesn’t get scratched, dropped or abused in any way (I have often sacrificed other items I was holding in order to not drop my iPhone).
The Mas Elements back should ship to me this week and I’ll thinking a review is in order for it so stay tuned.
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