Pink or no pink? You decide.
There have been many claims made about the hues of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus's rose gold color. "IT'S PINK!" "IT'S COPPER!" "IT'S. ROSE. GOLD. DARN. IT." Let's put the arguing to rest: We went out around New York City and photographed the iPhone 6s with all manner of pink items to see if we could truly answer this dogged riddle once and for all.
Around two hours (and many a bypasser wondering why I was taking a photo of an iPhone with another, bigger, iPhone) later, we're still split. In dimmer lighting, the iPhone looks very pink indeed. In the sunlight, however, it's almost a champagne copper, and against truly neon items—like the bike tape or cross beams below—it looks practically silver. So take a peek (and a pop) at our gallery and give us your opinions: Just how pink is the rose gold iPhone? Too pink? Not pink enough? Are you tired of us saying pink yet?
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Just how pink is the rose gold iPhone 6s? We took photos in the wild, now you tell us!
I actually like the new rose gold color and I bought PUR's rose gold lighting cable to match my new rose gold iPhone6s: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017VPDGCU?m1k=d_im&m2k=d_im&tag=imoreb...
I had planned on getting a pink one, but I also planned on that damned camera not sticking out waiting to be knocked off...
So, until Apple can figure out how to put the camera fully inside the device, I went back to an iPhone 5s.. Gold, with my pink bumper...
Humm....looks blue to me but my girlfriend sees gold. Strange!
Rose gold back with black front that's what this guy would like!!
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I can't wait to get my rose gold iPhone and wish there was a rose gold iPad Air to match. I remember tech blogs getting their knickers in a twist over the golden iPhone when it was first announced and now many of them (including iMore) use golden iPhones in demo photos. I think the rose gold will fly off the shelves, especially in Asia.
Personally I'll love a Product Red iPhone or any other colors like Green or Blue ala the iPod Touches and their stray of different colored aluminum backs. Now that'll be awesome.
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The first couple of pics make it look like the regular gold color. In any case, I love it. I totally loved the color when I first saw it and I still do. I'm sure I'll love it even more when my rose gold 6s is delivered to my door next week.
Looks pink to me. I like pink but orange would really make my day.
It's Pink, period. But call it Rose Gold because no man would ever go out and buy a pink phone.
I don't get your logic as rose gold sounds way more girly than pink.
Personally it isn't the pink that is stopping me from getting it, but the white face.
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Rose gold. Champagne pink. Soft pink. Coppery pink. Whatever. It looks awesome.
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Nothing wrong with pink, or rose gold. I am a guy, and I don't feel like these shades are women only. I got the space grey in order to get the black front. I don't really care for the white front on the other three.
I'd love a copper or bronze iPhone. Dial up the red/orange tones and you've got me.
You know, assuming they fix all the other problems.
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It's coppery-gold, which is what true "rose gold" actually is made of.
The promo photos look a lot more pink.
I don't mind soft colours -- I got the lavender cover for my iPad Mini 4, and I have a beige cover for my iPad Air that looks pinkish -- but the promos looked too pink for me, and so I went with Space Grey for my 6s Plus.
So I'd comfortably carry a rose-gold iPhone. Don't regret going space grey this time -- it was time for me to get a black-faced Apple device again, as my last two iPhones and my last iPad have white faces.
I am a heterosexual male and I have the soft-pink cover for my iPad Air2. I see nothing wrong with it or the Rose-Gold colour which I am going to get.
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regardless of your sexuality choose the color you want.
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It's a little pinker than I'd consider Rose Gold to be, but it isn't offensive. If it was on a black phone, I'd actually get it.
Who cares, Space Grey is the color to get anyway.
I would have just prefered they make a black one.
It's Rose Gold, which is a combo of gold and copper alloy. I think the name fits it well since you get those touches of pink and copper colors.
If the 7 comes in RG, as a dude fully comfortable with his masculinity, I'm getting it. Gender norms are dying.
Only in the strongholds of liberalism.
Not really. I live in a small very red town. The only people still holding on to gender norms are men over the age of 35.
True true, I like it as well! Asked my wife if that seemed crazy.
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I voted for Champagne Pink... because, well sometimes bubbles just hit the spot lol... and it's "iPhone 6s/6s+ Day" so why not celebrate??!
Its not as pink as I thought it was.....that's no bad thing.
Yeah, it's pink. Sure, it's a soft pink - I'm not sure many would want a brighter pink - but I definitely have no qualms about saying that is pink. And it's awesome. Screw gender normativity; if I liked iOS, I would be buying the pink.
My question is simply why the assumption (the 'sorry Apple' comment), that because it's pink, it's somehow 'bad?' What's wrong with a pink phone?
Design-wise, the current faux metal finishes are actually kind of an abomination. Faux finishes are something they literally tell you to NEVER do when you start design school. If it were simply "pink" instead of "rose gold" (along with any other colour) it would actually be a more honest, "better" design. It's not like you are fooling anyone that it's even gold-plated. It's coloured (painted) aluminium.
I vote we just call it "pink" and that Apple makes a purple, green, orange and blue model as well. That would at least be honest.
Ha, the "sorry, Apple" comment was more "Sorry, we're calling it pink and not 'rose gold'." I actually really like it! (But it's pink.)
To me rose gold is usually a salmon pink. I'm not a fan of yellow gold, so the addition of copper to make it pink is actually an improvement. It is the lack of a black front option that is the deal breaker for me. I just don't like white fronts on my phone as much, especially since we have so much white in the GUI.
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Pink Sucks!!!!!!!!
So don't get it. Problem solved.
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Apple has resisted calling it pink. Probably to avoid gender issues with buyers. But... It's metallic pink.
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Purple for me please. Hell I would pay extra for an iPhone maker program where I could mix and match current colors. We have one option that has a black front, which I think sucks.
With the casing, front panel, and plastic joints, we have three areas of an iPhone that could be customized. Give us the option to pay extra and have our phones mix and matched.
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Moto maker for iPhone lol
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You can customize a purple iphone using colorware.com. They do excellent work. I had bose headphones customized 4 years ago. They still look brand new.