RadTech's iPhone lust revival kit

With the next-generation iPhone - the iPhone Video? - a near certainty to be revealed on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, millions of iPhone 3G owners will stare longingly at their scuffed-up Apple smartphones and lust after a bright, shiny new model. To the rescue comes veteran accessorizer RadTech. With the …

[Martin Lyne]

Oh dear.

I hope they'll make a version for other phones.

Unless, of course.. it does work for all phones?

[Fihart]

Save $8

Try one of those green pan scourers and finish off with T-Cut or Metal polish.

[Anonymous Coward]

Invalidate warrrenty??

and possibly have your Jesus phone confiscated/ service disconnected; after all, this is kit is NOT made by APPLE!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Australia

"smooth and soft as a baby's bottom"

Are you trying to get el reg added to australia's child-porn-site list?

[TeeCee]

Re: Oh dear.

It would depend what the shiny bits were made of. Presumably, the iPhone being a penomenally high-quality product (just look at the price, it must be), it has a real chromed metal surround and can thus be polished up. I suspect Simoniz chrome cleaner would work just as well and you can clean the bumpers of your car with it too as a bonus.

Anything with the chrome-effect tacky-placcy stuff treated this way would have the shiny bits removed very quickly leaving you with a dull plastic bezel.

Paris, so you can see what dull plastic bezels look like.

[Sebastian Brosig]

Bottom: @AC 07:01

not only is the babys bottom risky, its smoothness is overrated. In my native Geramny, we have a saying "Life is like a baby's bottom: rough, damp and windy."

[James Grinter]

Original iPhone bezel was stainless steel.

and the back was anodised aluminium.

Read the impressive work of analysis here - http://www.macmod.com/peripheral-mods/iphone/1562-iphone-custom

(I can't find any sign of the planned analysis of an iPhone 3G that the above article mentions.)