The white iPhone 4 has been behind so prolonged which a little of you substantially forgot a handset comes in two colors. Tech blog Pocket Lint offers a initial plausible reason for the check, which comes from the lucky owners of a elusive device.

Pocket Lint speckled the male with the white iPhone 4 during a press eventuality in New York, who explained that Apple HQ is actually swimming with white iPhones, as well as the crony of his “fixed him up” with his.

The reason for a check? Asian suppliers shipped white iPhones with a white home symbol that doesn’t compare a tone of the face image, according to Pocket Lint’s tipster. That’s a single of those tiny but poignant sum that would make Steve Jobs shelve a device until it was done only right.

Indeed, Apple did acknowledge in a July press recover that a white iPhone 4 has proven “more severe to make than we originally expected.”

Though many tech critics have praised the iPhone 4 with intense reviews, a product’s launch has been hilly during best. Customer reports of an receiver flaw upon a device culminated into a frenzy of disastrous press, which constrained Jobs to reason the discussion announcing a giveaway case module to assuage a emanate. The puzzling delay of the white iPhone 4 has additionally been uncharacteristic of Apple, that is typically solid with meeting its boat dates.