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Apple's white Iphone 4 is finally on the way
MAKER OF BLACK IPHONES Apple will start shipping a white version of the Iphone 4 within the next few weeks, ending a long series of delays for the pale incarnation of the iconic smartphone.
Bloomberg cited three anonymous sources who are aware of the company's plans. They revealed that AT&T and Verizon Wireless will be selling the device by the end of April and explained that the delay was partly due to the white paint peeling under heat and a bug with one of the sensors.
The Iphone 3GS and Ipad 2 are both available in white, which makes the Iphone 4 issues seem somewhat puzzling. We would have imagined that the same techniques that worked for them would be carried over to the latest Iphone, but somehow things kept going wrong along the way.
It is also believed that the next Iphone will not be announced in June, the traditional announcement period, but in September instead. It is not clear if this is a delay or an intentional move to make the most out of sales of the white Iphone.
Reuters also reported that Foxconn, a major supplier of components for Apple products, will assemble the white version of the Iphone 4. We expect this to involve more than slapping a layer of white acrylic over old Iphones.
The ivory Iphone was unveiled in June of last year, but consistent problems have led to a delay of nearly 10 months. The string of delay announcements over the past year led to it being dubbed by The INQUIRER "the Duke Nukem of mobile phones". µ
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Making white plastic has always been the bane of the plastic makers ...
.. I mean who uses white plastic, when its like uber hard to make it - oil being black n all?
That is reserved for the Genius of Jobs and the Apple faithful. The rest of us mere mortals are just going to have to use other colours :)
When i nipped into the Apple store a few weeks back to get my Ipad2, i was chatting with one of the geniuses about which colour of ipad was more likely to be in stock.It turns out that the white ipad is 'more difficult to manufacture' for some undisclosed reason hence the lack of stock in some cases, maybe this applies to the phone too? Think about the thickness of the top case and the level of transparency that may be inherent in the white models (one of the reasons i got a black one was that the white looks a bit dirty/see through at certain angles)... maybe they are trying to overcome some inherent manufacturing weakness to make it thinner for the phone?