Apple has been working on different color shells for the phone but its plans remain unclear.
Perhaps due to the lack of exotic color options, the phone wasn't quite as appealing as when we first got our hands on its predecessors.
Nokia is among the few phone makers out there to have brought out a vivid range of devices with a single-color polycarbonate body, meaning scratching the phone leads to blue or pink all the way through.
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This summer Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) released the N-Gage QD, a phone with a large color screen and built in control pad for gaming.
"Sometimes you don't get the full appeal of a phone if you only launch with one color, " explains Rabbani.
The bold styling of the phone is finished in a vibrant Flame color.
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Because color is such an integral part of the Windows Phone experience, HTC is bringing bold, sophisticated and adventurous colors in a premium matte finish to these devices.
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Those attending a Dan Deacon show in support of his album America could download the app, which enabled their phone to respond to sonic prompts, changing the color of the screen or playing sounds in addition to those coming from the stage.
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"We are thrilled as we continue to add to the successful series of VIVO smartphone devices using Super AMOLED Technology displays, resulting in remarkably bright and vivid color reproduction, with the best viewing experience available on a mobile phone today, " said Samuel-Ohev-Zion, CEO of BLU Products.
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Samsung has combined a full-color Palm operating system device with a code division multiple access (CDMA) phone.
She said she was initially grateful to the company for agreeing to waive the cost of her mobile phone while she was in the country and working with a nonprofit group, Color of Hope, to promote Haiti's recovery.
Of course, the purple Rhyme was a different example but with a similar goal -- it was a special project where Verizon wanted to see if it could make a phone that'd get away from the hyper-masculine Droid aura, and the color was chosen through studies.
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With a virtual 6 x 9 inch color VGA display, a small joy stick and mouse buttons operable by the index finger when using the phone during a conversation the StarTac phone provided the ability to viewed shared subject matter, photos or documents while talking, 15 years ago.
The phone's new A6 processor also helps out, offering a "smart filter" for better color matching, as well as speedier capture and still capture during video.
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It's not the absolute smallest phone on Verizon but geez they need a little space to fit in that 176 x 220 internal color display, a VGA camera, a spacious keypad and an external color display too.
It looks like Microvision tends to favor the diminutive kind, however, as the company is looking to showcase its "ultrathin, miniature full-color projection display" at next week's CES. Hoping to cram this bad boy into your next mobile phone, PDA, or other handheld gizmo, the firm is touting its incredibly small form factor as the next coming of mobile displays.
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