Alex Walker-Todd / Android Authority
Human beings love expressing themselves, and for most of us, a big component of that is how we look. Our clothes may change day to day, and maybe hairstyle by the season, but a lot of us are keeping the same phones for longer and longer, thanks to improved support policies. Considering how many times a day we’re pulling our phones out, compounded over a timeline of years, it starts feeling all the more important to go with a phone that has a look that really suits us.
Now, you’ve got plenty of options when it comes to finding the right look for your phone. You could always wrap your phone in a skin, like the kind dbrand makes, for an instant transformation. While that’s a fine solution on its own, many of us prefer to combine that angle with protection and dress our phone up with the help of a great case.
Cases seem like a super convenient way to keep your phone looking fresh (you could argue they’re just clothing for our phones), but in a recent poll we ran, we discovered that a surprisingly large number of our readers are curious about the idea of getting rid of their case and just carrying around a naked smartphone. Assuming you’re careful with it, that could go just fine — but are you going to start feeling a little insecure about your plain old, drab phone?
All too often, we don’t get a lot of great choices when it comes to smartphone colors. You’re lucky to find a modern phone offering more than 4 or 5, and a couple of those are probably neutral tones. Even when we do see a variety of colors, they’re often cut from the same cloth — think “pastels,” or a matching set of other low-saturation options. Gone are the days when you could pull up something like Moto Maker and access a seemingly endless variety of hues.
When you’re out shopping for a phone, does any of this weigh on your purchasing decision? Are you deciding on a phone and picking a color, or deciding on a color and picking a phone?
How much do you care about smartphone colors?
46 votes
We don’t have space in our poll to really break that down with any more granularity, but are there certain colors you’re on the lookout for more than others? Craving a bold red or a forest green? Let us know in the comments, and share your frustration with how hard its’s been to find phones actually made in your favorite color.
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