OnePlus 6T Clear Mod Will Make You Want This Purple Edition Instead

Another glass back phone, another opportunity for JerryRigEverything's Zack Nelson to turn it into a transparent back. Not all phones with glass backs are created equal though and some end up prettier than others. So far, the Pixel 3 is the titleholder for this year, with insides that immediately make it interesting when viewed inside. Will the OnePlus 6T fare just as well? It could, but not without some work.

Popping off that glass back is tedious but otherwise uneventful. That is, if you're careful. And fortunately, the black paint underneath that glass is just some film that can be peeled off. No scratching needed. No problem so far.

Inside, however, the slight problem arises. There's not much to see inside. Gone is OnePlus' iconic red battery and the black shields covering are not something you'd want to tinker with. In other words, what you see is exactly what you get. Well, you could wrap the battery with some red material to spice it up, but that's pretty much it.

Perhaps the OnePlus 6T wouldn't be so visually boring if it didn't come in just two colors, both of them black. Save for a red edition that could come sometime later on, that's all you're getting. Unless you're in China where, as luck would have it, a "Thunder Purple" edition is available.

Yes, there is some sense of injustice here, but who knows if and when OnePlus will make this color available to the rest of the world. For now, this edition is only limited to its home market, where it is available in only the 8 GB RAM/128 GB storage configuration.