IMO the white one looks kind of weird as a color for iphones but it would show less scratches and fingerprints than black in the short run but it would likely start to look bad after a year or so of heavy use. I had an old ipod video 30gb white up until a year and a half ago and with heavy use it started to become brown. Since then I have been put off by white apple products. Hopefully that doesn't happen to the iphone as well