Just a week ago, Steve Jobs announced during the special press conference that the white model of iPhone 4 will be available in late July. It appears something changes within a week. On Friday, Apple released a statement announcing that the white device will not be available until later this year. Here is the full statement [...]
Just a week ago, Steve Jobs announced during the special press conference that the white model of iPhone 4 will be available in late July. It appears something changes within a week. On Friday, Apple released a statement announcing that the white device will not be available until later this year.
Here is the full statement from Apple:
White models of Apple’s new iPhone® 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected, and as a result they will not be available until later this year. The availability of the more popular iPhone 4 black models is not affected.
This is not the first time the white model has been delayed. Before the first debut of iPhone 4, Apple also postponed the release of white model till end of July. While Apple doesn’t give any details about the manufacturing problem, Appleinsider gives some insights about the issue:
The alleged problems were revealed this week by Chinese-language newspaper 21st Century Business Herald, which said that the manufacturing issues come from a factory in China known as Lens Technology. A worker with the company’s quality control department said that the company is still trying to work out the right balance of paint thickness and opacity, in order to ensure the panel allows enough space for the digitizer overlay, but also gives the level of white that Apple expects the product to have.
Industry sources also indicated that each machine owned by Lens Technology can only cut three iPhone 4 glass covers per hour. The report said that the company’s current production capacity can only meet half of Apple’s demand for the iPhone 4.
For those who want to purchase the white iPhone 4, look like you will need to wait for a while.
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