WhiteIphone4 Archive

  • Apple: white iPhone 4 not available until second half of July, ‘more challenging to manufacture than expected’

    Apple: white iPhone 4 not available until second half of July, ‘more challenging to manufacture than expected’

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Well, it looks like you can put those conspiracy theories to rest... or can you? Apple has just put out an official statement on the nowhere to be found white iPhone 4, which it now says will not be available until the "second half of July." What's the holdup? Apparently, the white models have "proven more challenging to manufacture than expected" -- but don't worry, Apple assures us that "availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected." Complete statement (which you've mostly just read) is as follows:
    Statement by Apple on White iPhone 4

    White models of Apple's new iPhone(R) 4 have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected, and as a result they will not be available until the second half of July. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.

    Apple: white iPhone 4 not available until second half of July, 'more challenging to manufacture than expected' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • What happened to the white iPhone 4?

    What happened to the white iPhone 4?

    Posted on June 23, 2010 | No Comments
    It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but Best Buy has just gotten around to confirming that it won't have any stock of the white iPhone 4 come launch day on Thursday -- the same situation that both AT&T and Apple itself are in. For many buyers, it's not a big deal -- either they don't mind the black version, or they'd planned on buying black anyway -- but for others, this is putting a significant crimp on the launch day festivities. We reached out to Apple and got this:
    "There is tremendous excitement for the new iPhone 4 and we are working to get as many of them into the hands of customers as possible. At launch, we have the black models available for purchase and we will be adding the white models as quickly as we can."
    In other words, they're not revealing much of anything -- okay, scratch that, they're not revealing anything at all about its mystery-shrouded delay, the circumstances behind it, or how long we can expect to wait. So here's our question: what, exactly, happened to the white iPhone 4?

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    What happened to the white iPhone 4? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • White iPhone 4 likely not available at launch

    White iPhone 4 likely not available at launch

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    The popular rumor going around right now at the eleventh hour is that AT&T will only be offering the black iPhone 4 models for pre-order tomorrow and at launch, with their white counterparts coming "later this Summer." Considering the fact that the white version of the 4 is quite a bit more distinctive than the 3G / 3GS, that's a bummer if true -- but what we don't know is whether this is strictly limited to AT&T. It's entirely possible that Apple and third-party retailers will be offering the white models, and AT&T's own distribution channel might just be suffering from some sort of buffoonery (that's our hope, anyhow). Lending credence to the rumor is the fact that Japan's SoftBank has already officially announced that it'll only be offering the black models initially -- and when we pressed AT&T on the matter, we got "no comment" in return. It's not looking good, folks.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    White iPhone 4 likely not available at launch originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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