For those that do not keep their phone in a case, but pocket it while wearing jeans, there may be an emerging issue with the plastic strips getting discolored through the repetitive action of sliding the phones in or out of the pocket. The dye from the denim rubs on the plastic strips and makes the device look dirty.
The result is an unsightly discoloration that makes the iPhone look dirty and old. Conventional soaps and other cleaning products one might use in an effort to remove the darkening on the plastic strips apparently have not worked.
In some photos a user sent to BGR, you can clearly see the discoloration on the white strips found on a gold iPhone 6. User inquiries to Apple received instructions to “carefully scrub their iPhones” with a variety of cleaning products. Beyond that however, no solutions were forthcoming.
So, this is a phone that you can't hold easily, can't drop without it breaking and can't put in your pockets without altering its color, but people pay hundreads of dollars to have it?
lordT... It's like a new flaw is discovered every week now. I'm definitely not taking the risk of purchasing this, even though I love Apple and their iPhones.