Here’s some food for thought: the white iPhone 4 may well have been another antennaegate for Apple–another crack in the Apple’s once seemingly unflappable exterior. The company delayed the device again this week–that’s the third time Apple has done so since it was announced back in June.
There’s a good deal of speculation now that we may never see this model brought to market–that Apple is actually going to delay and delay until its ready to introduce the iPhone 5 next summer.
As it stands, the phone is delayed until spring. “We’re sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone yet again,” the company wrote in a statement. Apple didn’t actually give a reason for the delay this time out, though the first time it announced a push back, it told the press that the phones, “have proven more challenging to manufacture than expected.”
Sources are chalking it up to an aesthetic issue. The white faceplate is reportedly a slightly different color than the home button. Even for a design nut like Steve Jobs, however, that doesn’t seem like a particularly good reason to delay a handset for so long.
According to a new report, the problem goes deeper. The light color of the case is reportedly leaking in light, ruining pictures taken with the phone’s camera–particularly when the flash is used. The problem, it seems, wasn’t discovered until just back Apple began shipping.
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