14 DAY TRIAL // According to an industry analyst often quoted on Apple rumors, Apple will begin production of the White iPhone 4 this month, with shipments expected to arrive the next.
Concord Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tells AppleInsider that manufacturers will start production of the white version of Apple’s GSM iPhone 4 sometime soon.
General availability is planned for next month, Kuo reportedly told the Apple-centric site, adding that Apple has made changes the "film material to solve the full-lamination problem that [was] the reason why white iPhones [were] delayed.”
Apple is known (or believed) to have partnered with a Japanese company to use a new type of paint for the controversial white iPhone 4.
The problem with the original mixture was that the LED flash would leak light into the camera lens, resulting in washed out photos and video.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak himself corroborated such claims, after acquiring his own (allegedly original) white iPhone 4 plates from China.
Earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at a special event held in San Francisco to introduce the iPad 2, the next-generation of Apple tablets set to go on sale tomorrow.
The device ships in both black and white flavors, and Jobs said “we’re shipping from day one” referring to the white model.
This can only indicate that Apple has finally got it right with the paint used to bleach its devices, and should prove Kuo’s claims are accurate.
For those who don’t know, Apple has delayed the White iPhone 4 not once, but three times, since its originally planned launch last June.
Skeptics at one point believed Apple would never release the handset in the wild. Some still do, with the iPhone 5 just months away now.