By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 12:00 PM EST (09:00 AM PST)
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in an interview that the white iPhone 4 will ship soon, while also confirming camera issues with do-it-yourself white iPhone 4s modified using leaked Foxconn parts.
Wozniak told
Engadget in
an interview Sunday that the manufacturing issue with the white iPhone had been fixed and that the handset should be released in the near future.
Last month, Wozniak revealed that he had a white iPhone 4, which he
had modified from a black iPhone 4
using a kit ordered from a website. At the time, Wozniak admitted that the kit had a few defects.
During Sunday's interview, Wozniak
expounded upon the defects, explaining that photos taken with the modded white iPhone 4 using the flash look as if "taken through cellophane" because of light leaking through the white-painted glass.
AppleInsider reported
last week that Apple
has partnered with a Japanese company to craft a new paint material that will work for the white iPhone 4. According to the report, the Cupertino, Calif., company struggled with earlier painting methods, which resulted in a "huge" number of defective handsets.
Inventory listings from
Best Buy and
AT&T suggest that the white iPhone 4 could debut on Feb. 27.
The iPhone maker has announced several delays to the white model of its popular smartphone. In July of last year, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the white iPhone 4 was
on track to ship by the end of the month, only to be contradicted
the following week when the company announced that the product would not be available until later that year, a deadline which has, of course, come and gone.
