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IPhone With A Light-up Apple Logo

August 15, 2008 by Strom Carlson 10 Comments

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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.

Posted in Cellphone Hacks, iphone hacksTagged apple, applelogo, hardware hack, HardwareHack, iphone, iphone3g

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