unstoppablekem
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At least you can get it. I'm not on Verizon. :-/
My white 928 got pretty dirty. If you have a case on it probably won't matter.
My complaint with the white is that its essentially a three tone phone. Had they made the front white I wouldve jumped all over it.
I got white, and the reason actually surprised me. I went in to my local VZW store around 4PM yesterday and they had sold out of the black earlier in the day! White isn't bad, does show few smudges etc, but when the phone is laying on it's back all you can see is the black screen and the matte silver border. I like the way it looks.
My white 928 got pretty dirty. If you have a case on it probably won't matter.
My complaint with the white is that its essentially a three tone phone. Had they made the front white I wouldve jumped all over it.
That was my complaint as well. But after looking at both in person, I still liked the white better than the black because the black just had no personality left to show with the metal band being colored the same as the rest of the phone, so it just became a black brick. And while I was concerned about white, I realized that you're never looking at the front and the back of the phone at the same time, so it actually looks really nice, despite being 3 tones.
I bought white. And I'm very happy with that decision. But that's my personal preference. Just figured I'd share my story, considering I was thinking the exact same thing as you. The 3-tone white version really irked me, but no longer.
Went back and forth as the Verizon store had both. My final choice was black. Although I think both look amazing, I found that the white with silver band broke up the continuous look of the screen. My opinion is, I love how the black metal band is a more gradual visual transition from the screen around to the edges. (hope this representation is coming across accurately). When the screen is off, it reminds me of one of those zero gravity pools with the disappearance of the borders.
This is probably the one downsides of the aluminum band. The NL928 was designed in such a way to create the perception that the screen went on forever. It worked because of the curved glass, clear black amoled display, and the inability to see the sides of the phone when looking straight at the screen.
The Icon has two of the above, but the sides are now visible due to the aluminum band. It's less obvious on the black version than it is on the white. It's a design trade off between the 928 & 929, I guess.
I went Black. I've looked at white soft-touch phones before and a lot of them get pretty dirty with a few months use. They both look fantastic new, though.
I went white, but after playing with the black after getting it, the black is better done. The tonal aluminum band is better than the two-tone band, to me.But white is better than black (stands out a bit more), so it's a bit moot.
How so? In terms of functionality? Or just design.