I doubt that you wouldn't have heard about this by now, but in case you haven't:
A clever and incredibly DIY-talented Engadget reader, Martin Schrotz, milled his own titanium iphone 3GS back housing out of a solid titanium block. He even changed the silent switcher to better suit his new mod.
Now if a humble tech enthusiast was able to bring back the metal back housing on the iphone from it's 1st gen iphone glory years, why can't almighty Apple? The most obvious answer would be "profit margin".
iPhone 3GS mod ditches plastic cover in favor of titanium vestment
Source: Engadget
Engadget reader Martin Schrotz is a man after our own hearts. He's taken the editors' choice for best smartphone of 2009 and tricked it out with a handsome new back cover made out of titanium. Not sufficiently pleased with the plastic casing provided by Apple, Martin opened up his favorite CAD program and refashioned his phone into the much hardier and indubitably more awesome machine you see before you. The new backing is built out of a titanium alloy that allows RF waves through and therefore requires no plastic parts to let the wireless communications flow. Check out the gallery for more before hitting the link below to bug Martin to provide you with a video or a price estimate.
You came, you saw, some of you were not convinced. So what's a gadget blog to do when picture evidence isn't enough? Why, get those pictures moving, of course, right up to 30 frames a second. The stunning titanium iPhone 3GS from this morning is back, proving not only its existence in the corporeal realm, but also its much-disputed ability to place a call -- something that even the default plastic-backed units sometimes struggle with. Look, we're not in Austria and therefore can't lick it and tell you if it really tastes of titanium, but on the evidence we have the thing looks legit. Judge for yourself after the break (video).
Stunning, simply beautiful and stunning.....
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