Opaque ones have a wider range of materials to choose from. Plastic is pretty unlikely to break, though. Glass is the only other transparent case and that would be brittle (guess which one modern phones use)
Fun fact: Transparent electronics are a thing because prisons require radios, TV, etc to be able to be seen inside and companies later realised they looked cool.
I thought they'd also test the moulds with clear plastic so it was obvious if there were internal defects due to things like poor flow into part of the mould
Not even transparent. Colorful design, actual individuality, recognizable imagery, etc.
Now, everything have to be like "a letter or two in one color, inside a flat geometric shape in another color", and the most exuberant logo you can find in a well known product is like the firefox icon that just moved from an actually colorful and detailed fox on a clean blue planet like earth to a 3 and a half color based orange circle and blue dot.
X/Twitter post by user cybr angel 👾 @cybrxangel reading: society won't heal until we bring back colorful transparent technology
Underneath are four images, the top left is 5 iMac G3s arranged in a circle and each with a different colour: blueberry (blue), grape (purple), tangerine (orange), lime (green), and strawberry (red).
The top right image is a clear purple Nintendo Game Boy Color.
The bottom left image is a see through acrylic landline phone from the 90s.
The bottom right image is a clear purple Nintendo 64 with 6 controllers arranged in a semi-circle in front of it in the following clear colours from left to right: blue, watermelon (red and white), green, orange, atomic ice blue, and atomic purple.
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A few more line breaks and/or paragraphs would have made the transcript a little more legible. And if you'd like me to nitpick, the GBC in question is clear purple.
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The Fairphone 3 has a translucent case, and I will never understand why they didn't stick with this design. It's like childhood memories in phone form.
Exactly! To be fair, it did show pictures first, but I wasn't paying attention to their names. Then when you actually choose you can only see the names and they both sound kinda like female names. I don't think I was the only one who made that mistake.
Have you not noticed that it seems to be coming back in style? I have a transparent case on my steam deck. I've seen the same mods for other consoles. I've seen transparent battery packs and transparent controllers for sale recently. Also didn't a company just release a transparent phone a couple months ago?