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I also have a black car. I wouldn't even say it shows dirt that much more than a white car, but the kind of dirt that gets on a car isn't the same as the stuff that gets on your iPhone. I mean think about it. You could walk up to a dirty car, wipe your finger along it, and make a clean line with your finger. You're going to be holding your phone all the damn time, so it's not like it's going to get dusty or have loose dirt build up on it like a car does. The dirt you'll get on an iPhone will be from rubbing it in with your dirty hands all the time, which will show up a lot more on a white phone than a black phone.

I see where you're coming from with the scratches and blemeshes, but again I think there's a big difference between a car and the iPhone in this regard. The most noticeable scratch on my car is such because it scratched all the way through the clear coat and the paint, making the scratch itself white surrounded by the black paint. The other blemeshes are all from the clear coat becoming scratched or distorted, causing the light to bounce off differently, etc. These iPhones aren't going to have several layers of paint underneath a clear cloat finish. It's just colored plastic. What will be bad is having a white phone with scratches in it and rubbing dirt in to the scratches. The scratches on a black phone might -- MIGHT -- be more noticeable, but the discoloration caused by them is going to be a lot more noticeable on a white phone.