What Color is Your Ipods Backlight?

Has anyone figured out why the backlight is different in different 3G iPods?

ok.

look at your iPod ( 2nd/1st ) gen on an angle, it'll appear blue. look striaght up its white.

what? your backlight can be white? I just orderd a 3G and it will be here tommorow. I hope is has a blue light! Blue is my favorite color. Just my luck it will end up white. why are there 2 colors? is there a greater chance of having a white one or a blue one?

Well I got my ipod which I bought on ebay. I was soooo wanting a blue backlight but instaed I have a white. The white doesn't look totally bad and it definetly is bright enough. I wish i had blue though, it looks so much better!

how could they possibly make different colored backlighting? why would they even do that? to make the resale value of a blue screen ipod worth more??

weird thing is, although i consider my ipod's backlight to be blue, i've never seen it THAT blue like the ipod in the picture. mine is a darker more purple color. even still i think it provides better contrast than the white backlit ones.

Im not really sure what mine is... I just got the 3rd gen. 10GB iPod...after seeing those 2 pics on the first post, i thought mine was blue... but then i looked at mine and it appeares white...but its blindingly bright... not nearly as dull as the white in the pic... so im gonna have to say mines a mix... also... if someone has a pic of the supposedly purple light... id like to see it... every light ive ever seen in person is super bright white like mine.

There are 2 different color backlights. My friend just bought his at CompUSA and it is extremely blue. It looks like it has an indigo backlight that those watches have. Mine is white. Mine looks smoother and there are no shaddows cast by the lights on the side. In addition, mine looks blue under certain lighting conditions

That is not true, my friend has a 15 gig. The blue looks bad, the lights case a big shaddow. He hates his and wishes his backlight was smoother, he even sent it back to apple because he thought there was an issue with the screen. I dont care either way, if he keeps complaining ill just switch mine with his... (his has less scratches :D

SIGH.. i just saw one of the actual blue backlight ones at compusa.. it was beautiful.. personally i think the color is much better than the white/grey, it is also much crisper looking, like the lcd is of higher quality. wish there was some way to trade my white 15gig for a blue one 8(

Mine has a bluish tint. So I say it's blue.

Mine is just as blue as in the picture (clearly blue even with other lightsources present). Maybe the difference exists over EU/US ipod's? EU ipods are different due to the volume leveling. Maybe they use different backlights too for some reason or another? (Btw, my ipod is a EU version ordered from Apple Belgium)

How weird. My wife's is white, mine is blue. We bought them at the same Apple store, both 15G, however, we bought hers in May and mine in September. Oh well, I got the cool one! I won't tell her!

Mine is not white..but isn't as bold a blue as I see in pictures.
it's almost purpleish. so mix I guess.

Mine is blue, I have never seen a white one.

Im pretty sure mine is Blue.

not to brag but mines a soild blue like in the pics

when you buy an ipod. if you asked apple to give you one with a blue backlight. do you think would?

I just got mine today, (3g 15gig) and when I first turned it on it was grey. I was dissapointed. I charged it up then listened to it and the back light was then blue. So you are right it has to be a battery thing.

Well.

I got my iPod last week and got my digital camera this week....trying to keep up with the times.

Here is my iPod........the camera makes it very blue. At any rate I'd say mine is a mix of blue and white. Not white like those in pictures and not blue like my own picture (ODD!)

Isn't she purdy!!!!

mine is blue

I wish mine was blue.

i had a 3g 10gb which i accidenty destroyed (note to self, they don't float) anyway, that one had a mix bue/white thing goin on, i just got a 3g 30gb, and it's hella blue, caught me off guard, since i wanted so much just to replace the void left by my ten, now i have to adjust to a new glow and a slightly thicker pod. also i noticed that the contrast on my new one is nowhere near as good as it was on my old one, it's very washed out compared to the 10gb, i have to turn it all the way up just to get it visible, also the new backlight has shadows (those two dark spots on the left if you know what i mean) and my old one didn't. confusing i tell you.

i don't like those custom color bg's... they make it harder to read the words, i leave mine clear, in the morning it makes a good flashlight when it's really dark in your room and u dont' wanna turn on the light (wake up someone)

Blue looks alot better than the white. Makes it look brighter for some reason.

This is weird. Mine looks like somewhat of a light lavender color...Kind of white too...

Mine was blue right out of the box, its a 3g 40 gig...

Light blue. Its not as blue as the box, or as that pic in the first post, but its certainly bluer than the White iPod.

Like Humperz iPod so is mine.

mines as blue as the ipod in the pic... but my button lights look bad. the orange shines through the white.

Mine isn't a rich blue, but it's certainly not white, so I voted mixed. It's a 20gb 3g.

Mine is white.

I found that if you change the contrast of the iPod, it will change the color of the backlight.

Originally posted by MetalMike
My iPod's HDD just died... rest in peace l33tPod... :( anyway, my new one has a white backlight with a bluish tint. I think only new iPods have the white LCD's.

Mine's identical to his. But I think I even like it better than that dark blue one as on the box... But as long as it's readable in the dark. :)