Analyst says white iPhone 4 out next month
From vapour to solid reality at last?
The white iPhone 4 may finally lose its rocking-horse-poop rarity next month.
We won't believe it until we see it, but according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, of US investment house Concord Securities, the calls he's been putting in to Asian component suppliers and the like suggest the almost mythical handset is going into production.
That will allow Apple to ship the phone to shops and mobile operators in April, he said, AppleInsider reports.
The white iPhone 4 was announced alongside the black one in June 2010. It was supposed to have shipped by the end of that month. But Apple kept on delaying it and delaying it.
Most recently, in December 2010, Apple said the vaporous offering would become solid reality in "Spring 2011", so of course Concord's man may be simply anticipating that outcome.
Incidentally, Apple is rumoured to be readying an early April announcement for iOS 5 and changes to its MobileMe online service. If the white iPhone 4 is out next month, what an "and there's one more thing..." it would make. ®
COMMENTS
This is news???
C'mon Reg - this has got to be the best tech site in the world, but to report on a NEW COLOUR of a goddamn phone is just taking the piss.
Surely
Anyone who wanted an iphone would've got one by now.
If you're holding out on a device based on colour where the front is about 90% screen, which is what you'll be looking at most of the time, then you probably need a word with yourself.
You are referring to iPhans who will ...
buy anything 'new' even if it doesn't work properly.
As for having a word with themselves ...they already do, as they read the messages off their little screens.
Everyone is so indifferent ...
that they feel the need to comment on their indifference!
