Believe it or not, there may still be a white iPhone 4 in our future. The mythical beast was recently sighted in carrier inventory systems and on AT&T's subscriber website.
The ridiculously late white iPhone was spotted just a week ago in these screenshots of Vodafone Germany's inventory database, before surfacing again on Best Buy's internal website with a listed "in-stock" date of Feb. 27 — although as Boy Genius Report points out, the "in-stock" date might not represent the actual launch day.
The latest white iPhone 4 sighting comes (again) courtesy of Boy Genius, which found the MIA handset listed among the choices in AT&T's "online account management" site for subscribers.
Being an AT&T subscriber myself, I logged in and checked it out. Lo and behold, there it was, the white iPhone 4 (in both 16GB and 32GB models).
Hmmmm, very interesting. As MacRumors points out, though, it's not clear how long the white iPhone 4 has been listed on AT&T's "OLAM" system, or whether AT&T added the listings based on actual news from Apple.
Boy Genius and others have speculated that the white version of the latest iPhone, first announced six months ago and later delayed — twice — by Apple, might at last see the light of day in late February or early March.
The last official word on the white iPhone came in October, when an Apple spokesperson told Reuters that the tardy handset wouldn't hit stores until this spring.
The first delay came in July, when Apple admitted that the white iPhone 4 was "more challenging to manufacture" than originally thought.
But wait — didn't we put a man on the moon? How hard is it to make a white iPhone?
Well, apparently there's more to it than just slapping on a coat of white paint. Various sources claimed that Apple's manufacturing partners were having a terrible time getting white versions of the iPhone 4's glass front and plastic "home" key to match. Another (unconfirmed) headache, according to Cult of Mac, was light leaking into the iPhone 4's camera lens because of the white glass backing.
Given that a brand-new iPhone is expected to be revealed by June or July, you'd think it might be time to call it a day and cancel the white iPhone altogether.
Yet it looks like the white iPhone 4 may yet make an appearance, late though it is. Stay tuned.
Related:
White iPhone 4 appears in AT&T's online system [Boy Genius Report]
— Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.
The ridiculously late white iPhone was spotted just a week ago in these screenshots of Vodafone Germany's inventory database, before surfacing again on Best Buy's internal website with a listed "in-stock" date of Feb. 27 — although as Boy Genius Report points out, the "in-stock" date might not represent the actual launch day.
The latest white iPhone 4 sighting comes (again) courtesy of Boy Genius, which found the MIA handset listed among the choices in AT&T's "online account management" site for subscribers.
Being an AT&T subscriber myself, I logged in and checked it out. Lo and behold, there it was, the white iPhone 4 (in both 16GB and 32GB models).
Hmmmm, very interesting. As MacRumors points out, though, it's not clear how long the white iPhone 4 has been listed on AT&T's "OLAM" system, or whether AT&T added the listings based on actual news from Apple.
Boy Genius and others have speculated that the white version of the latest iPhone, first announced six months ago and later delayed — twice — by Apple, might at last see the light of day in late February or early March.
The last official word on the white iPhone came in October, when an Apple spokesperson told Reuters that the tardy handset wouldn't hit stores until this spring.
The first delay came in July, when Apple admitted that the white iPhone 4 was "more challenging to manufacture" than originally thought.
But wait — didn't we put a man on the moon? How hard is it to make a white iPhone?
Well, apparently there's more to it than just slapping on a coat of white paint. Various sources claimed that Apple's manufacturing partners were having a terrible time getting white versions of the iPhone 4's glass front and plastic "home" key to match. Another (unconfirmed) headache, according to Cult of Mac, was light leaking into the iPhone 4's camera lens because of the white glass backing.
Given that a brand-new iPhone is expected to be revealed by June or July, you'd think it might be time to call it a day and cancel the white iPhone altogether.
Yet it looks like the white iPhone 4 may yet make an appearance, late though it is. Stay tuned.
Related:
White iPhone 4 appears in AT&T's online system [Boy Genius Report]
— Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.
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