Rumor: Update on white iPhone manufacturing
Website WhiteiPhone4Now, which happens to sell DIY white iPhone case kits, has posted pictures supposedly showing the front of a white iPhone. The focus of the change depicted in their photos seems to be what they're calling a "rough & bent" condition resulting from the manufacturing process. It appears that the top case is rendered less-than-perfect in manufacturing, and as a result doesn't sit completely flush when the phone is assembled. They also claim, according to their "OEM sources," that the process has been adjusted to successfully remove this imperfection.
Apple intended to sell a white iPhone at the initial launch, only to announce that it would be delayed by a few weeks and eventually several months. Since then, sites like WhiteiPhone4Now have offered patience-deprived customers a way to bring a little #ffffff to their iPhones without delay.
In the meantime, Apple's workers are obviously fixing the solution. Good luck to all of them.
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Now this might sound stupid, and please inform me if it is. But isnt a simple solution to the problem just to paint the black iPhones using a colorware technique?
August 03 2010 at 1:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou talk like you're Apple Inc
RE: Apple won't publicly lie about stuff like that...
Yeah - they don't give you Amy info period.
White hard plastic clip: under $4. Meritline.
August 02 2010 at 8:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo you think it's safe for me to change my 4 through this website? I'll have to have the professional make the change of course.
August 02 2010 at 5:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHow were they able to make the white housing for the 4 and Apple is still having problems? If I order this DIY kit, will it be a poor quality look?
August 02 2010 at 3:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replytrying to figure out why this costs as much as a new iphone4
August 02 2010 at 3:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe white delay has made it easier to wait and see if there's a revision b in the fall.
I wanted to see what the white looked like anyway, but seeing how MUCH trouble it's giving them I'm starting to lean toward black.
You can pay $300 for that, or wait for Apple for unspecified date, or you can get black iPhone and use the white iPhone 4 look-alike DIY mod for under $20:
http://obamapacman.com/store/diy-white-iphone-4-sticker-skin-mod-kit/
I didnt actually think that such website existed.............
August 02 2010 at 2:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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