Scott Moritz has throws his two cents in, and believes the white iPhone 4 has been delayed due to light leakage issues around the device’s edge.

Apparently, the back light from the iPhone display screen is leaking out around the edges of the glass and seeping through the back of the white phone, according to a person familiar with the manufacturing process.

According to the report, the white backing has a lower opacity than it’s black sibling, and thus allows more light to seep through. Additionally, the glass backings make it more difficult to seal the edges, which in turn allows more light through.

On the one hand, this would tie in well with the paint issue that some believe is holding up the white iPhone 4 model. On the other hand, we’ll likely never be able to prove Mr. Moritz wrong, and in which case he appears more knowledgeable than he actually is. Moritz has been wrong many, many times in the past about Apple.

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