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ColorWare offers custom colors for Nexus One

Shane McGlaun — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:19:11 +0000

ColorWare has been around for a long time and in the beginning, the company mostly offered custom painting services for notebooks and other computers. The company now also offers coloring solutions for all sorts of gadgets today including smartphones.

The latest smartphone to get the ColorWare treatment is the Google Nexus One. The handset can be colored with glossy or soft touch hues to your liking. The company will paint the frame, back, bottom, and camera surround.

Like most handsets the company can paint you can get your own Nexus One panted for $175 or buy handset and all. If you haven’t purchased a Nexus One yet, ColorWare will buy it for you and paint it before shipping for $800. Presumably, that would be the no contract version of the handset.

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ColorWare offer custom iMac and Magic Mouse paintjobs

Chris Davies — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:51:12 +0000

If your Core i7 iMac isn’t unique enough – and if you have one that powers on and has an intact screen, then from the sound of things it’s already pretty rare – then you could always turn to ColorWare for help. The customization company have announced that they’re happily take your Apple all-in-one (or indeed your Magic Mouse) and brighten up its aluminum body with a new paint finish.

The Magic Mouse costs $100 with a choice of different top and bottom colors, or alternatively just $30 if you send your own mouse in. As for the iMac, that’s a bigger beastie and requires a whole lot more paint, so ColorWare are asking a $700 premium over and above Apple’s pricing if you buy the whole thing through them, or alternatively $500 if you ship in your existing iMac and simply have them recolor it.

[via Gizmodo]

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ColorWare Stealth MacBook Pro: $6k matte-black laptop

Chris Davies — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:50:11 +0000

At the other end of the scale from ASUS’ new Eee PC colors comes an admittedly more-tempting prospect: ColorWare’s Stealth MacBook Pro. Taking a 15-inch 3.06GHz MacBook Pro as its base, the ink-wielders then throw their own soft-touch “zero gloss” finish at the unibody casing, and finish off the display with a matte coating.

Apparently the casing is fingerprint-resistant, which is probably a good thing as people will be desperately trying to claw it out of your hands. Inside things are top-spec too, with 8GB of DDR3 memory, a 256GB SSD and a DVD burner.

That sort of configuration alone will cost you around $4,249 from Apple, but as we’ve seen before ColorWare aren’t in the business of under-charging for their work. Only ten of these Stealth MacBook Pro units will be made, priced at $6,000 each.

[via Gizmodo]

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ColorWare iPhone 3GS custom colors arrive

Chris Davies — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:05:12 +0000

It’s unlikely to be taxing their production line all that much, but notorious ink-lovers ColorWare have announced they’ll be offering custom versions of the iPhone 3GS. As with other ColorWare creations, the end result can be as tasteful or as lurid as your morals allow.

The usual range of solid and metallic colors are available, and you can have your earphones dyed to match too. The basic process changes just the back-plate of the phone, but you can also customize the normally-chrome bezel, the home button and the SIM holder.

Pricing starts at $150 for the back, then add $20 each for the bezel frame and button, or $15 each for the SIM holder and earbuds. Currently there’s only the option to send in your own iPhone 3GS (in the US); ColorWare aren’t offering the smartphone themselves at this stage.

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Kindle 2 gets a ColorWare makeover

Chris Davies — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:49:48 +0000

Amazon’s Kindle 2 may still not have a color display option, but you can certainly brighten up your ebook experience courtesy of ColorWare. The infamous inkers are now offering a color customization option for the Kindle 2, with solid and metallic options and the ability to mix and match controls and different areas of the casing.

ColorWare treat the front bezel, rear top and bottom, buttons and keys as different sections, and each of which can be colored differently. Leaving the rear bottom panel brushed metal costs nothing, but you can have that colored too for $25 more. Unfortunately whether the design is tasteful or not is all up to you, so try not to come up with anything too outlandish (especially if you ever want to sell the Kindle!)

Pricing for the color treatment starts at $199 if you’re sending in your own Kindle 2, or ColorWare will sell you a new ebook reader already customized for $599. That’s a fair chunk of change on top of the Kindle 2 itself, but such is the price you pay for being special; delivery takes around 2-3 weeks.

[via Krunker]

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