Wooden iPhone 4 Backs: Tackily Awesome, or Awesomely Tacky? [Iphone4]

Once we first screwed on Material6′s wooden iPhone 4 replacement backplates, we weren’t sure what to think. Would we get looks of envy? Looks of scorn? Were they simply straight up ugly? a couple of weeks later, we’re in love.

We were worried in the beginning. Was it a bit of douchey to add wood paneling for your smartphone? And would it not detract from the naked iPhone, already a minimalist design masterpiece? Wood paneling doesn’t exactly square with the Apple design aesthetic. However it turns out, that’s okay. After we got over the initial discomfort of swapping glass for wood, and the insecurity of constructing some variety of cheesy 70s design statement-we really ended up liking the things.

Apple’s industrial design trajectory is stupendous, but so is the retro look of kit that used to incorporate wood. It feels good in our hands. It won’t get fingerprinted up. It won’t shatter. It adds some delicious visual contrast to the trendy glass and metal finish of the front. And, really it’s just something different. Allotting $90 to slap wood onto the back of your phone may appear silly-however it’s an object you might want to touch, observe, and hold against your head through on daily basis of your life, perhaps. In case you can get over the anxiety of your iPhone looking like the dashboard of an old station wagon, you are as ok with your throwback phone as we are. [ Material6 ]

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