Hello! I’ve been charged with telling you what colours the UK iPhone 8 comes in. I’m extremely flattered that you chose me rather than, say, an Apple Store genius to guide you on this journey.
So: you’ve decided to stretch your overdraft a little further and buy an iPhone 8, and now you need to decide what colour won’t grow tedious over the 24 months of your contract.
Let’s get right to it. The iPhone 8 comes in three colours: silver, gold or space grey. Compared to the iPhone 7 colour palette, that’s a little more limiting, but the good news is my word count is going to be considerably reduced.
This is what each iPhone 8 colour looks like:
iPhone 8 in space grey
Since when did grey become associated with space? Is it a plan to make it sound more exciting and less synonymous with the words “old” and “dull”?
In any case, the iPhone 8 isn’t available in black this time, but squint and the space grey model does a pretty good job. It’s definitely on the darker end of the grey spectrum, in any case.
Gold smartphones get something of a bad rap, often dismissed as a tasteless person’s idea of tasteful (disclaimer: I had a gold Samsung Galaxy S7). The gold iPhone 8 won’t be to everybody’s tastes, but it’s quite pleasingly understated considering. It’s light, rather than gaudy, matching the new MacBook’s stylings.
The front is white, by the way – so if you like your handset to be the same all the way around, then you’re best sticking with space grey.
If you like flashy, but not too flashy, then the silver iPhone 8 might be the perfect compromise. In fact, if Apple had adopted the silly naming conventions of its rivals, this might be called “ice white”.
Like the gold iPhone 8, it’s worth noting that the silver model is actually white on the front – meaning that if you change your mind about the flashiness, it’ll be easily covered by a good case.
Alan Martin is a freelance writer with more than a decade’s worth of experience, mainly in the technology space, with bylines at The Evening Standard, Tom's Guide, The i and many others. His main focus at Expert Reviews is ensuring that your next pick of phone or wearable is the right choice for you and represents the best possible value for money. In the past he’s covered a broad range of games, dental apparel and pet accessories and, on one memorable occasion, had to strip off to retrieve a rogue drone from a lake – such is his dedication to reviews.
