Replacing your iPhone 4’s rear glass plate with a metal panel turns out to be ridiculously easy and, in the word of the wise Derek Zoolander, ridiculously good-looking.
The brushed-aluminum and plastic panels are straight swap-ins for the breakable glass backs that come as standard. To fit it, you remove a pair of screws either side of the dock connector, slide the glass off and the metal plate on, then replace the screws. It will take you longer to dig out your smallest screwdriver than it will to perform the mod.
The beauty of Apple’s external antenna design is that it needs no RF window to let the waves in and out, so this new plate shouldn’t affect the call-quality at all. It should also make the iPhone a touch lighter, and it certainly looks the part, with the bevelled edges sloping down smoothly towards the antenna loop.
If you want one, they cost $13, although they’re back-ordered right now. I imagine, too, that the seller will have to change the design pretty soon. The panel’s decoration is an exact copy of the original Apple one, right down to the Apple and iPhone logos, and the legend “Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China.” Apple isn’t going to be happy about that.
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Original Source [Wired]
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