Seriously, I keep seeing people talk about red/white and I wasn't going to say anything, but it's so nice to hear that at least one more person agrees that red/white just looks like a clown's phone (of course I haven't actually seen one first hand, so I don't know).
When I was buying mine, locally, in China Town, the sales person actually was discounting the red/white ones and charging more for the silver/plum (the dark brown) ones--which is what I got.