iPhone with a light-up Apple logo

posted Aug 15th 2008 11:00am by Strom Carlson
filed under: cellphones hacks, iphone hacks

If you feel that your iPhone alone no longer carries the cachet it once did, what with the price dropping and all, this may be just the modification that you need to stand out among the crowd. iPhones.ru has a teaser glimpse of an iPhone hack that causes the Apple logo on the back of the device to light up when the screen is turned on. Details are sketchy, but it appears that the hack involves replacing the metal insert on the back of the phone with an LED-equipped plastic one; custom software allows the user to select the brightness of the glowing effect independently of screen brightness… or maybe they’re just using the backlight.

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tagged: apple, applelogo, hardware hack, HardwareHack, iphone, iphone3g

10 Responses to iPhone with a light-up Apple logo

YoYo-Pete says:

August 15, 2008 at 12:33 pm

That’s sweet… especially if you have battery life. (It does looks sweet. Might be cooler to have it software controllable… mini flahslight or whatever)

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Chris says:

August 15, 2008 at 1:03 pm

That could be used for flash!

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Enigma says:

August 15, 2008 at 1:03 pm

be way cooler if it was tinted/able to control the color
Still awesome,

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AudioCra-Z says:

August 15, 2008 at 1:58 pm

A tri color LED would be cooler. Or maybe use a small spot of light sheet to make an easier mod.

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samurai1200 says:

August 15, 2008 at 6:47 pm

people! don’t have your personality be defined by a cell phone, and you won’t need to add an led to your iphone in the first place.

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minibike says:

August 15, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Cool! Another way for the all-to-common and already-smug showoffs who bought iPhones to make themselves stand out and show how “individual” buying an apple product makes them!

And no, I’m not insinuating that all iphone owners are smug assholes, just saying that there are tons of them out there and this is right up their alley, just like the incredibly populer pretending to be on the phone gag.

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kt says:

August 15, 2008 at 11:25 pm

for some reason (maybe just the video quality) but it looks fake, like the light was digitally added. it doesnt really sync up with the movement of the phone itself, especially at the begining.

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croiman says:

August 16, 2008 at 4:22 am

The idea is stolen from, i created this mod couple months back, this is the Original artikel :

http://www.iphoneclub.nl/5890/exclusive-impressive-iphone-case-mod-croiman-psycho-iphone-mod/

On more then 60sites the front page, google and type : Croiman Psycho iphone mod.
You get more then 60frontpages, engadget, tuaw and many more.

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None says:

August 16, 2008 at 6:24 pm

I’ve hear that the flush metal Apple logo on back costs a ridiculous amount of money (~$30 per iPhone), but Jobs wouldn’t settle for anything less.