Why do cellphones come in such crap colors?

I dont know why phone makers provide any colors anymore. Just get a case of whatever color you want.

I have no idea what color my current phone is, or any phone before that.
Who carries around a phone that isn't in some kind of protective case?

I'd love to go without a case, but they refuse to make a phone with any grip. I wish they'd just do a rubberized back instead of all this glass.

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Right. Who doesn't use a case?

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I buy whatever case color is on discount at the time, you know, the once highly marketed but now passe "in" thing. It's just going into a case for protection and phones are expensive enough to scoop up ALL available discounts a buyer can find.

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You're just flexing now. Time - Rich People Don't Use Cases

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While I’m not above that kind of flexing, it’s more of a flex that I’m not a child and have never, not once, so much as cracked one of the screens. I have them stacked in a drawer somewhere with hardly a scuff on them

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it’s more of a flex that I’m not a child and have never, not once, so much as cracked one of the screens

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This hurts.

I cracked my phone recently. Dropped the thing a 100 times and hadn't cracked yet.

First leg on way to Japan, not 10 minutes into flight my phone slides off my lap onto the floor. Hit just right.

Oh well.

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I don't believe the latter part

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That’s ok. Processors will lower their voltage in an effort to reduce heat production if they reach a certain temperature. Modern phones do not have active cooling. They use passive cooling, with the entire case being the heat sink. Heat sinks work by having a fluid (whether liquid, or in this case, atmosphere) pass over the heat sink to transfer heat away from the heat sink, allowing it to draw away more heat. If air can’t move over the case, heat can’t move away, which means the heat sink will saturate, which means it can’t cool the chip anymore. The only way the chip can compensate is by lowering voltage, and therefore clock speeds, to produce less heat.

That’s just physics.

Now, for people who don’t use their phones to do anything more than talk, text, and browse the internet, that’s not really a problem, as you can do all of those things at a fraction of the power the chip normally draws. But the next time you hear someone complaining about their phone being “slow all of a sudden”, look to see if they have a case. If they do, if they took it off, I guarantee the metal of their phone will be extremely hot.

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I cracked my phone recently. Dropped the thing a 100 times and hadn't cracked yet.

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I've cracked screens with a case on several times

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Now, for people who don’t use their phones to do anything more than talk, text, and browse the internet

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I mean, I use maps and other basic/normal functionality. What else am I intended to be using it for? (I don't play any games, so I can see that stuff being more intensive).

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That was my theory too. Cracked screen mocked me the whole time. The dichotomy between my phone and the screens of Tokyo taunted me.

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Could you not find a local shop to swap out your screen? shite would have driven me insane haha.