G1 and BlackBerry Bold get the Colorware treatment, finally feel at home with your bippies and lightsticks
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Nov 25th 2008 2:01PM
posted Nov 25th 2008 2:01PM
As you probably learned in grammar school, there's a time in every gadget's life when it gets the Colorware treatment -- and for the G1 and the Bold, the time is now. It'll run you $150 to dress up your current T-Mobile handset, or the company will ship you a brand new one $725. Prices for the BlackBerry Bold run $139 and $674 for the makeover and the whole phone, respectively. Sure, that's a pretty pile of change, but if you'd spent your formative years in the East Coast rave scene you'd know just how coveted and stylish a pink, blue and orange G1 really is. If the BlackBerry is more your speed, make sure you check out that sexy number after the break.
[Thanks, Ken]
[Thanks, Ken]
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That G1 is hideous
And the Pink bold isnt?
the G-1 is really bad.. the Bold isn't that bad for a girl
WoW! Nice move Engadget. I see what you did there. You went to the colorware website and created the most hideous color combo and then posted it. Yea, nice one. So how’s the view from inside JobO the Hutts butt? Just sayin...
PS You can't fools us. True tech heads will go to colorwarepc to check the color combos for themselves, some of which are hot, hot, hot...
Dear Frankenstein,
1) I just went to the Colorware site, and the first image on display there is a yellow, pink, and blue G1. It's not identical to engadget's pic, but it's almost exactly as hideous. Anyway, your argument that engadget is trying to make the G1, colorware, or both look bad fails pretty seriously.
2) Whose butt? I'd assume that was a Steve Jobs allusion, but Steve Jobs has nothing to do with this. Also, colorware will sell you all kinds of hideously colored iPhone, if you prefer. A related question would be: What the hell are you talking about?
3) True tech heads? Yeah, man. Fuck them poser tech heads that decline to spend as much on the paint for their gadgets as they spend on the gadgets, themselves. Go get 'em, kid.
4) As far as I can tell, you're some combination of the following things: confused, a troll, and/or dumb as rocks.
Love, absurdio.
(Hurl)
The word fugly comes to mind.
Professionaly fugly
Change the post's title to "The Ugly get Uglyer !!"
The G1 looked pathetic before and now is seriously worst !! My 20 year old Ericsson looked much better.....
When I refreshed the page, I thought my video card just died.
No, the designers just switched back to VGA colors
As if the G1 didnt look enough like a toy...
Its one of those horrible things when you just can't look away. What a perfect gift for my color blind friend.
A good Neon Green might be good looking for the G1?
Please don't ever go into product design.
NO! please do, dont listen to him. hes one of those walking billboards ~
Dammit Apple! Now when I see bright almost-fluorescent colours with black it makes me think of your ads!
I know a few people that'd appreciate the pale pink model though.
OMG THAT BLUE AND ORANGE ONE IS SEX
i want a lime green and orange one that would be amazing
not all people are boring and like black/silver ect..
you people are BORING!
haha i like this guy
do you do events?
No we just have taste.
Different strokes 4 Different folks
(but i still think your boring)
well that was rude....
I'm liking the UF themed G1. GO GATORS!
The faint pink one isn't terrible, but the top ones look like they were made by Fisher Price.
Excellent, the perfect contraption for luring my victims.
That's a creepy thing to say...
Them good ole boys would be safe deer huntin with that there G1.
As long as they were texting out the lulz and such.
Um, yeah, the eighties called, they want their colors back...
Um, yeah, now called, styles come back...
Well the Jerk Store called...
The 90's called they want their insult back...
My mom called... Teas ready.
im disconnecting all your phones.
Stop it right now, or I will turn this thread around!
Anybody want a peanut?
Lol I actually think the pink Bold is pretty nice (at least when compared to the G1).
I've seen someone with a pink Curve encased in a white transparent skin before. The resulting effect looks really nice - similar to the pink Bold above.
I agree with the comment above... first thought that came to mind was FUGLY!!! the G1 itself is fugly and these color just takes it over the top and makes it a joke.
The Colorware Bold has been available for months.
Colorware does a fantastic job. I have two Colorware iPhones, and I highly recommend their services.
Can you skip getting the back painted? I just want the front and home button to be a different color...
Wow.. that's all I can say when I saw those two phones..
G4TV's pimp my phone edition...
wow Colorware is expensive!
Why does everyone bash the HTC Dream? The G1 is an awesome phone, and it's looks are rather neutral. Just because something doesn't look as shiny as the iPhone doesn't mean it's ugly.
The G-1 is fine, but it's fugly with those colors. Calm down.
Why are you jumping ship from HTC Dream to iPhone?
Just because the phone does not look shiny like an iPhone, but it has potential for Android and unimaginable creativity does not make it less appealing than one without "copy and paste."
I actually quite like it, OK not those horribly garish combinations! But the site has some nice options that could really improve upon the bog standard colours of the G1 (I have a thing for green)
Oskee Wow Wow !!
Horrible colors to go with the ugly phone. It's a match made in hell.
The more I see the G1, the more I believe THIS G2 HD won't ever come to life:
http://www.talkandroid.com/android-forums/android-hardware/341-t-mobile-g2-phone.html
Welcome to the ugly!
id rather do it with vinyl skin for gadgets, at least i can remove it or change it when i develop an epilepsy or something.
This is what happens when you leave a box of crayons in the office of one of HTC's daily maltreated designers.
I spent my years on the east coast rave scene.
And I've never seen anything as cool as this! Where's my photons! :P
-Tim
They really belong to Toys-R-US for the holiday season. I'm sure kids will love it.
I was gonna post "what the hell are bippies?"
but I thought I should look it up, first, just to be safe.
dictionary.com says:
bip⋅py
–noun, plural -pies. Slang.
an unspecified part of the anatomy (usually used in the phrase You bet your (sweet) bippy).
urbandictionary says:
bippies
Breasts; preferably those of a woman
So to bring everything full circle:
What the hell?
Ugh. And I thought the 80's revival was bad for MUSIC! :)
okay, fashionistas-- go to the site, click on the G1, and choose carbon for the main color, and steel for the keyboard and tell me that's not smokin' hot. it's basically the new macbook. it is pricey though. i'd do it if they didn't keep the phone for a month.