iPhone 4 White: not as thick as some?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 02 May 2011 09:39

Your IT - Mobility

Ah, thinness. It's not just for supermodels, but superphones too, and while the white iPhone 4 has suffered claims of being thicker than its black brother from the same crunchy mother, one of its fathers says nuh-uh.

When you've got a reputation as one of the thinnest smartphones around, and suddenly the new you isn't as svelte as you'd imagined, someone's gonna be asking the scales what the heck is going on.

With photographs flooding the net and purporting to show the white iPhone 4 has an additional 0.2mm girth compared with its supposedly otherwise identical black brother, speculation has run wild that Mr White didn't go on the same diet as Kate Middleton before putting on that white dress.

Indeed, over at 9to5mac.com you can see not only the supposed photographic proof of the white iPhone 4 being thicker than the black iPhone 4, but also a tweet, claimed to be from Apple's senior veep of product marketing, Phil Schiller, definitively stating otherwise.

Mr Schiller is claimed to have tweeted, in response to 9to5mac reader Ernesto Barron's questioning tweet over the white iPhone 4's supposed additional thickness that: 'It is not thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read'.

This leads us to the Brazilian 'blogdoiphone' site which has photographs of the white and black iPhone 4 side-by-side, from various angles, which shows no additional thickness whatsoever, which is different to the photos showing calipers measuring a slightly larger thickness for the white iPhone 4 versus the black model.

So, who to believe?

Could the thickness be due to ever so slight manufacturing differences? Are the reports of iPhone 4 cases fitting even more tightly on white iPhone 4's to be believed?

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