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Rumour: White iPhone 4 in Verizon and AT&T stores by end of April

10 months behind schedule

Rumour: White iPhone 4 in Verizon and AT&T stores by end of April
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By rights, the mythical white iPhone 4 should have been in customers' palms around ten months ago, back when its black sibling was released to the world.

Manufacturing headaches were cited as the reason for the delay, as Apple purportedly struggled to overcome light-bleeding troubles which affected the smartphone’s camera.

In early February, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak confirmed Apple had resolved the technical issue and that the albino iPhone 4 was shipping "soon". Current senior VP Phil Schiller even tweeted that it’d be available this spring.

Bloomberg has now gone one step further, suggesting that the alabaster iPhone 4 will be hitting AT&T and Verizon stores in the US by the end of April.

Tipping point

Bloomberg’s claim is based on a tip-off from three people in the know – presumably NOT called Jobs, Forstall, and Ive – and, well, you can’t argue with knowledge, can you?

If the Robin Hood / Beowulf / King Arthur of smartphones does surface before the month is out, it would leave only a two-month buffer between iPhone generations, should iPhone 5 go on sale in its traditional June window.

Rumour has it, though, that Apple will, for the first time, miss the summer refresh cycle for its mobile and instead show off iPhone 5 in the autumn, giving the white iPhone 4 some breathing space in the market.

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Richard Brown
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