The Italian news site PhoneItalia says that according to information received “from a reliable source,” they can reveal (“perhaps”), that the white iPhone 4 will go on sale in Italy on April 26.
With the qualifier that this information is based on hearsay from from the unnamed source and therefore, can’t be verified or refuted directly by the editors of iPhoneItalia, they note that the white iPhone product code is already open at H3G stores in Italy, so declare the news to be “almost certain though not announced,” especially in light of many other rumors indicating a possible release of the white iPhone in late April.
The French Apple-watcher site HardMac suggests that the white iPhone release could well be a strategy of Apple’s to ease pent-up demand fro something new in the iPhone category, given a fairly strong consensus that the iPhone 5 will not be coming until the fall, with the best explanation of that delay coming from experts studying the supply chain in China who say that Apple has not yet ordered any new components for iPhone 5 production and that no new manufacturing chain is being built so far, and deduce that the probable reason for that would be that the A5 dual-core processor, expected to be a key upgraded feature in the iPhone 5, is in short supply because of heavier than anticipated demand for the iPad 2, leading to a constant shortage of iPad 2.
Since it’s unlikely that Apple would release the white iPhone in Europe or elsewhere before it hits the U.S. market, if this scuttlebutt is correct, it’s looking good for a white iPhone debut soon after Easter.
As for the iPhone 5 itself, when it does arrive, HardMac notes divers predictions that it will have a metal housing made of aluminum of Liquid Metal and a higher-resolution screen than the iPhone 4 in the neighborhood of 8 to 12 million pixels.
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