Following a 10-month delay, suppliers to Apple have reportedly started production of white iPhones. Lat year, Apple announced the delay of the white version, saying it was “more challenging to manufacture than expected”. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, flagship of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, would assemble the iPhone. Phil Schiller, senior vice president-marketing, Apple also indicated last month that the white model would be available soon. He wrote in a Twitter post that the white iPhone would be available for sale by Spring, which ends in May in the northern hemisphere.
An Apple spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment, while calls to a Hon Hai spokesman went unanswered.Apple Senior Vice-President of Marketing Phil Schiller first said in a Twitter post in March that the white iPhone would be available for sale by Spring, which ends in May in the northern hemisphere.
The white iPhone would be available from AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc by the end of April, Bloomberg News reported on its website, citing a person familiar with the matter.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs first unveiled the white version of the smartphone when the iPhone 4 was launched in June last year, but it has been delayed because of a manufacturing issue that the company has not elaborated on.
Many telecommunications operators have been eager to sell the iPhone, hoping that the feature-jammed device will help boost data network use and increase revenue. For example, China Mobile Ltd , the world's biggest mobile operator, has been in talks with Apple for more than a year on distribution rights for the handset.
More than 16 million iPhones were sold in the last quarter of 2010, accounting for more than a third of Apple's sales in those three months.
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