Remember the white iPhone 4? Well, AppleInsider is reporting on claims made by Ming-Chi Kuo, a Concord Securities analyst. Kuo states that Apple’s manufacturing partners will begin pumping out white iPhone 4s sometime this month, with a release expected early next month. Oddly, the report specifically targets the GSM model, as the one receiving the white update. It’s unknown whether the Verizon CDMA version will see the same white model.
Here’s an excerpt:
Apple is expected to begin production of its long-awaited iPhone 4 sometime this month, with shipments no later than early April, according to one analyst’s checks.
Manufacturers will initiate production of the GSM-based iPhone 4 version in white enclosures and begin dispatching them to Apple ahead of general availability planned for next month, Concord Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo told AppleInsider. Apple has made changes the “film material to solve the full-lamination problem that [was] the reason why white iPhones [were] delayed,” he added.
You know the backstory. The white iPhone 4 was introduced alongside the black model at last year’s WWDC. Soon after Apple announced that the white iPhone 4 wouldn’t launch until later that summer, then the fall, then the spring. Apple just kept punting. Now that we’re approaching Apple’s new self-imposed deadline, it appears that may never get around to selling the white iPhone 4.
As for my two cents- analysts have a terrible track record in regards to Apple rumors. So, take this report with a grain of salt. To me, it seems late in the game to introduce a white model, when the iPhone refresh is looming right around the corner, presumably at this year’s WWDC (as with years past).
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