Woz delivers truth about white iPhone 4
The tech world has been going bananas over the last seven months trying to find a white iPhone 4 somewhere, or at least to figure out why there are no white iPhone 4s anywhere in captivity.
Since June of 2010, the saga of the white iPhone has unfolded slowly yet explosively, as rumors as to its absence got wilder and wilder, with explanations for the missing white iPhone ranging from materials difficulties to ‘on hold until the Verizon deal is done’ to abduction by space aliens over Taiwan. Those among the tech press that were more interested in fact than fancy have expounded in varying degrees of detail about the problem of manufacturing material problems. Some of those went so far as to say that the real problem was the lack of opacity in the white material causing problem with the iPhone 4 camera.
Although Apple has never confirmed or denied any of the theories, in time-honored Apple tradition, Steve Wozniak, a.k.a. ‘The Woz” and Apple co-founder, has now confirmed that the problem has indeed been the opaqueness qualities (or lack of them) and thus the lack of absolute darkness inside the phone interfering with the working of the iPhone 4’s camera(s). The white case material simply did not block as much light as did the black case material. The Woz, after somehow obtaining the necessary parts and building a white iPhone, was able to determine that the white iPhone leaks enough light to ruin the quality of photos taken with it.
Apparently, the case also caused problems for the white handset’s proximity sensor. Ruined photos and proximity problems were enough to call the white iPhone out on two strikes. The Woz, however, says that these issues have been eradicated and Apple now has a white case material that they can use to finally build and ship a white iPhone once again, according to a WirelessGoodness story. No one at Apple is talking about any of this, and even The Woz didn’t know when a white iPhone will ship again, but we can all consider the case (pun intended) finally (unofficially) closed.
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January 31st, 2011
I forgot about the white iPhone.