iPhone Savior is reporting – via an unconfirmed source – that a possible (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition iPhone 3G may be slated for a holiday release.
“it’s time to look forward to the emergence of iPhone Red, Apple’s holiday release to boost iPhone sales. Rumors have begun to bubble under that Apple is quietly planning to go red,” iPhone Savior reports. “With the iPhone’s transition to plastic casing, it’s fairly simple for Apple to add color at will while keeping true to form with a (PRODUCT) RED offering.”
MacDailyNews Note: (PRODUCT) RED benefits the Global Fund, to fight AIDS in Africa.
Full article, with image of a red iphone, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like an excuse to do a Photoshop mockup of the iPhone 3G in red (looks pretty good), but with Apple already on board with (PRODUCT) RED, it is possible, so for what it’s worth…
Kind of sporty looking. And a good cause.
That’s a fairly horrid shade of red in the ad though, makes it look a bit of a joke.
This is hardly news since as MDN states Apple is already on board with product RED stuff and it’s fairly a no-brainer that they would bring it out before Christmas.
Product RED products are usually a specific (tasteful) shade of red however, closer to the red that was rumoured before the 3G launch when no one believed they were going with the plastic back. More like a lipstick red than the watery, sick, candy red in the link.
im surprised they wont make a green one.. since the focus of the year is “going green” even if going plastic is actually not going green. I’d like it if they make a darker red like the crappy red curve I have from at&t;
If this isn’t their plan, it should be.
That is not (PRODUCT) RED, that is F.A.A. Red.
Somewhere, a Photoshop color-wheel needs to be adjusted….
They would do well with a full line of different colored iPhones
Don’t like it.
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I dunno, the main reason I didn’t get the white one was because it still had the black in the front and the silver as well … seemed like a bit too much going on. Same thing with the red IMHO, or any other color. If the front were the same color as the back that would be alright, but I can see why they wouldn’t do that because it would alter one’s perception of the screen. Seems like they’re skirting around design problems just barely. I’m happy with my black.
It’s the Chinese model. Oom boppa Mao Mao.
Looks like FD&C;red No. 3 to me.
That’s one Apple I won’t be taking a bite of!
I’d like mine Bondi Blue, please.
WHAT? No brown?
Wow Ampar, an Oak Ridge Boys reference.
The heck with red. I want Flower Power!
” . . . an Oak Ridge Boys reference.”
Or in this case, the Oak Lidge Boys.
(j/k)
Snorg Girl Red?
I’d rather buy a pink one for breast cancer awareness. And I’m a guy.
Save the boobies!
I love it! Little dark red though
you can have brown, just marry the red an green and you’ll get a nice shade of brown offspring.
iPhone (PRODUCT) RED I’ll take 2!
RE: “I’d rather buy a pink one for breast cancer awareness. “
Breast cancer is already over publicized. AIDS has been killing millions for nearly a quarter century. Thanks to Ronald Reagan for pretending it did not exist for nearly 8 years!… and not even speaking with his Surgeon General first when he finally did mention it publicly… Ass Hat!… oh and lets not forget Bush Sr. for continuing Reagan’s policy of doing nothing!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/view/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/
MW = “why” as in WHY did Ronald Reagan sit back and do NOTHING when he had an opertunity to REALLY make a difference in the world? FYI: In an attempt to deflame the ensuing flames re: RR… FACT: RR did nothing to end the Cold War other that be in office at the time.
Egg shaped iPhone coming next Easter?
“Save the boobies!”
Sure, but they look mighty tasty. Served over rice with soy sauce and ginger.
I’ll tell you what he should have done, Red.
He should have quarantined the ones that had it.
But since they were gay, he would have been accused of using Hitler’s Gestapo Fascist tactics.
So there, so much for being a loud mouth.
Look what good it did y’all.
“FACT: RR did nothing to end the Cold War other that be in office at the time.”
Boy, you are an idiot.
Since the iPhone backs are all plastic now, it would seem trivial to make them in any colour you like so I am sure they will be eventually.
Even that is a bit lame though when you consider the sheer volume of iPhones likely to be in use in the next ten years or so. In keeping with the rumour of “coloured” iPods before Christmas, I wonder if Apple has finally solved the problem of product dress and personalisation by making it possible to custom order?
I am envisioning a service where when you order an iPhone on Apple’s site (currently impossible I know), you get a template that you can scribble all over and send off with the order. The ultimate personalisation!
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This would be hell to organise given the iPhone distribution model, but perhaps we will see it with the iPods first, and then expand the service to iPhones when they (finally!) are able to be purchased online by the average Joe or Jane without having to go to AT&T;etc.
geez, RED, how long’ve you been nursing that wound?
Microsoft Fista (PRODUCT) RED – it’s usability gradually wastes away until it’s laying in a muddy, feces-infested puddle of water with a distended abdomen and flies all around.
Re: TowerTone
You Sir, have proven yourself to be, without a shadow of a doubt, utterly clueless. Now go pull your head out, do some research… oh and it may be time to turn off FOX News.
@Bluefin,
Those Snorg chicks are hot!
This is HUGE!!!! By coloring the iPhone red Steve once again jumps way above he competition. I hope they raise the price $3 or $4 hundred more to keep the riff raft out.
I’m glad Apple is going to bring us a truly beautiful and sexy phone. These are the kind of features Apple ought to be adding instead of wasting their time on boring stuff like cut & paste and a functional MobileMe. And who really cares how much the 2.0 software crashes – it does it so elegantly!!!
Gooo Steve, bring on more great innovation like this!!!!
RE: grok
Since 1981.
“. . . it’s usability gradually wastes away until it’s laying in a muddy, feces-infested puddle of water with a distended abdomen and flies all around.”
There’s another summer pool party at the Ballmer mansion?
actually, Red, that all occurred long before Fox News.
If you had a clue when it was happening, you would have understood.
Enjoy your revisionist fairy tail….
The Libs in the US have and will continue to ignore this information because it doesn’t fit at all into their totally skewed world view, but facts are facts, even when they’re ignored by the US mainstream media:
President George W. Bush has given more aid to Africa than any other US President
“A recent report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project found that ‘the US image is much stronger in Africa than in other regions of the world’. At least 80% of respondents in Ghana, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire were favourable to the US. In all other sub-Saharan African countries polled, there were more ‘favourables’ than ‘non-favourables’. Part of the reason for that support is money. Lots of it.”
When President Bush came to power in 2001, the US spent $1.4bn a year on humanitarian and development aid in Africa. By 2006, the figure had quadrupled to $5.6bn a year. And it is likely to get bigger. “The centrepiece of Mr Bush’s aid to Africa is the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), a five-year, $15bn Aids prevention and treatment programme launched in 2003. His most recent budget proposes doubling the funding to $30bn over the next five years.”
“Taken alongside US funding for malaria prevention, plus the Millennium Challenge Accounts, which provide funding for countries with strong governance records, Mr Bush has done more for Africa than any other US president, according to Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies. ‘I am a very severe critic of the Bush administration,’ he said, ‘but you cannot take away from the president the fact that the commitment of the US, in terms of aid and debt relief, is certainly greater under Bush than Clinton.'”
Source: The Independent, 17 February 2008
I don’t care about a red iPhone. However, I’d like to know where I can get my hands on a pair of those shoes!
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Apple should have made the plastic backs removable, then they could offer interchangeable backs in custom colors and designs.
And please drop the political talk. I hate when people do that.
“Egg shaped iPhone coming next Easter?”
Yes, and a special Fabergé version for the Russian market.
RE: TowerTone’s revisionist fairy tail
I was there then, still here now. Unfortunately, it is too late for dozens of my friends and family. So I’ll leave you to your delusional reality, I am guessing you will be there for some time.
So, Red
AIDS is the only killer that counts.
Not cancer, heart problems, or strokes.
Just what affects your world.
How generous of you.
How delusional of me…
Can Apple finally kill the photoshop? =)
The way I look at it is that AIDS, HIV and other STDs, whether in gays or heterosexuals, are basically the results of promiscuity.
Aside from blood transfusions, doing drugs and having sex with anything that moves is the
basis for this travesty.
Place the blame on the individuals who have perpetuated this filth, many times knowingly.
Instead of taking responsibility for their own actions, a lot of gays want to blame politicians and governments.
Sorry, but I don’t buy it.
You’re all a bunch of fscking slaves.
AIDS is a disease of choice. a person picks to have the AIDS. Don’t want AIDS? know your partner (before sex).
“Unfortunately, it is too late for dozens of my friends and family”
yeah, what a shame. On the other hand, more room for people who stick to one lover.
I looked on the Microsoft website the other day, after MDN reported about the new ad campaign for Vi$ta, and saw the Dell (RED) laptops… oh dear.
You guys are just jealous because no one will give you AIDS.
I like teh b00b135. I know people who have died of cancer, and some who have had and survived breast cancer. I don’t know anyone who has died of the aids. If nothing else, my support of breast cancer awareness over aids awareness is practical. I also know people with CP, MS (not Microsoft, the other MS) and CF. I just don’t know anyone with aids.
Who friggin’ cares?
So AIDS is a lifestyle disease.
Anthrax is also a lifestyle disease. You grazers out there should be aware of this.
Laughable.
9/11 victims had it coming, too.
I wouldn’t advertise your feelings in public in NYC if you value your health.
In my previous comment about AIDS and HIV, I didn’t mean to imply that I have no sympathy or compassion for those who are afflicted with these terrible diseases.
If I could snap my fingers and cure them, I would do so in a heartbeat. I just think people need to a little more rational and realistic about the whole situation.
“people need BE to a little more rational …”
ChrissyOne logic,
9/11 victims had it coming, too.
Rape victims had it coming, too.
Molested children had it coming, too.
Lynched blacks had it coming, too.
Who else has it coming, Chrissy?
@ afdjajdn
Your understanding of satire is truly inspiring.