“ The white iPhone 4 has finally go far and it ’s beautiful , ” sound out Philip Schiller , Apple ’s fourth-year frailty president of Worldwide Product Marketing , in a statement on Apple ’s Website . “ We prize everyone who has expect patiently while we ’ve worked to get every detail correct . ”
And not only will the U.S. get the long - awaited phone on Thursday , but it will also wing its way — in both 16 GB and 32 GB capacities — to Austria , Australia , Belgium , Canada , China , Czech Republic , Denmark , Finland , France , Germany , Hong Kong , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Luxembourg , Macau , Netherlands , New Zealand , Norway , Singapore , South Korea , Spain , Switzerland , Sweden , Taiwan , Thailand , and the UK on the same day .
It ’s been a long and arduous journey to get to this point , one that would frankly make even Odysseus pale . When the iPhone 4 first go up for pre - order , Apple ’s online store would n’t permit customer to pre - order the white version , saying only that it was “ currently unavailable . ” Just before launch , Apple declare that white-hot iPhone 4 would n’t shipuntil previous July , bring up fabrication problems . That result to a muckle of theory — everything from suggestions that whitened phones were cracking more easy than their black counterparts , or that light was leaking through the charge card and affect the camera , or even that the white iPhone 4had been faked all along . ( Well , perhaps not that one . )
When July roll around , Apple CEO Steve Jobs ingeminate — duringApple ’s press league about the iPhone 4 ’s antenna issues — that the white iPhone 4 wouldbe available later that month , but all that show up was another postponement , pegging the phone ’s accessibility as “ later ” in 2010 . In October , the company suppose the blanched iPhone would n’t appearuntil Spring 2011 — subsequently , all ghost of it vaporize from Apple ’s online store .
As the weeks went on and the white iPhone continued to remain unseen , it attained almost fabulous status . There were those who marvel if it would ever really appear , whether Apple might have quietly scrapped all intentions to bring it to securities industry . Although I could in person reassert the gadget ’s world with my own optic and hands — I used one at WWDC 2010 in the mechanical press region — there was a time when I began to question my own sanity : Had I really visualise it ? Had it been just a thaumaturgy of the luminosity ? Breathless spottings were reported in the state of nature , along with double rumors that it had shown upin retail stores’inventory systemsonly to disappear again . Like theFlying Dutchman , the snowy iPhone 4 seemed doom never to make embrasure and to contribute only doom to those who get wind it .
But the portent surged this preceding week when a white iPhone 4 was reportedly acquired by a Vodafone UK customer , stick to by undercover agent shots of retail corner that seemed to advise such a release was imminent . And then , at last , Wednesday ’s word from on in high spirits that the white iPhone will finally descend to dry land on April 28 — which , I may take note , isuncoincidentallymy birthday . Thanks , Apple , but you really should n’t have . No , in earnest — I buy a black iPhone 4 months ago .
Updated at 7:12 a.m. PT with international availability .
iPhone 4 32GB Black (CDMA, Verizon)
iPhone 4 16GB Black (CDMA, Verizon)
32GB iPhone 4 (GSM, AT&T)
16GB iPhone 4 (GSM, AT&T)
