The white iPhone 4 has been delayed by Apple. Regardless of this delay, demand for the black iPhone 4 has still reached epic proportions with people still camping out overnight at Apple Stores. Have you been one of these sleepless souls waiting in line for your iPhone 4? What amazes me is that people are waiting in line with NO guarantee of stock in stores! Now that’s some true dedication!
Shipments from orders on Apple.ca have started arriving to Canadians along with iPhone 4 Bumpers. But here’s one shipment that appears to be a white iPhone 4 being unboxed in Canada.
Take a look at the video here:
Upon further inspection this is indeed possibly a fake. Look at the shoddy packaging. The lame shrink wrap. The lack of charger inside the box. Also iPhone 4 units don’t come with a SIM ejector tool with the iPhone 4. Nice try, but try again!
Update: Whoops, I thought the above video was one that I saw a couple days ago, which definitely looked more like a fake. That video did not have a charger and arrived in a yellow shrink wrapped package. The above video looks more “real”.
What do you think after watching the video? Fake or real?
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My iPhone 4 came with the SIM removal Tool.. :-S
Um, my iPhone 4 did come with the sim ejector tool. It was wrapped in with the introductions/instructions.
I am not sure if that’s the real apple version of the white iphone 4 or thats the custom made version. however i am not sure what you meant by “lack of charger” and “sim ejecting tool” because that’s what i have in my black iphone 4.
I don’t think it is a fake, I got the same exact packaging and accessories in the box for my black iphone. And it really looks real to me!
Mine came with a SIM ejector tool…
defenitly not a faake. haha
lucky son of a biiitch.
Mine came with a SIM ejector tool.
There is a charger in the box. And my IP4 came with a sim removal tool…
So looks genuine to me…
Genuinly ugly. I hate white iPhones…
I see a charger in the box?
I had a sim removal tool in my box.
I bought from a canadian apple store.
The reason people are having such a hard time getting a phone is the same people are the ones camping out at the Apple stores buying up all the unlocked phones and selling them all on Ebay and Kijiji. It’s bullshit.
my iphone 4 has the sim ejector tool in the box
it looks real to me…
This iPhone has to be fake, does anyone here really think that Apple would have mistakenly sent someone a white phone instead of a black one? The white iPhone is not available for anyone to purchase.
I see a charger in the box, and I have heard that the black iPhone 4s come with the sim ejector tool. Can’t confirm that myself though as I don’t have one yet.
it looks very real to me too. If that’s a fake, it’s a pretty impressive one.
I want this sooooooooo bad!!
I actually blame the people who buy them more than the people who camp out and sell them. It is more their fault for being stupid enough to pay more than they have to.
This is fake because unlocked iPhones ordered from apple don’t come with microSims in them.
You see people wouldnt be these iphone hoarders wouldnt be buying up all units and selling them up on ebay if there was an adequate supply to meet the overwhelming demand for the phone. I mean, if the quantities werent so restricted then people would just get the phone from the apple store and they wouldnt have to restort to paying the 1000$ phone on ebay!
This is obviously someone that works for a cell shop or something. They have taken the housing apart and replaced it with a white housing.
If the phone was indeed brand new, it would have came in better packaging. Also if it was indeed a white iphone why not show the receiept that will have it listed? FAIL
Real or fake it matters not. I had a white 3GS and loved it, but the white i4 at a quick glance always reminds me of a nintendo ds lol it looks like cheap plastic from a far. To me the real story here is the poor people still standing in line day after day. One hand I feel sorry, yet the other i don’t. If they would have ordered online they could have gotten one by now or soonish
he opened the box and put the phone down to the right of it. After he fiddles with the instructions, etc. he starts using the phone and it appears that there is already a microsim installed with service which likely means that hes opened it prior to meddle around with the phone. not a real iphone4 white
Apple should be doing more to enforce the 2 per person policy – not just 2 per visit. A buddy of mine had been trying to get a phone since launch and ended up showing up at the Eaton Centre Apple store at 6 am and was third in line. The store had received 60 Iphone 4 and all 60 were sold to the first 30 people. The apple store employee told my friend that the vast majority of the people that actually got the phones that day are the same people that get them every day – then flip them on ebay or kijiji. If Apple actually wants the people that buy their products to buy them then they actually have to be able to get their hands on them without all this bullshit. Over 3 weeks after launch and it’s still almost impossible to get a damn phone. If I wasn’t so locked into using mobile me for my business I for one would be switching to a different phone
Definitely Real
I understand that he had already opened the box before filming this video – What I dont understand is why he has left the top portion of the shrink wrap on the cover to the box.
My guess is that he has changed a black phone with the white kit AND installed a picture/colour copy of the white iPhone box onto his black iphone box. Then to make sure that it is hard to spot how he added the box picture he left the shrink wrap on the cover of the box.
Other than the phone being white and the box everything else should be the same between black and white.
Fake. This guy has posted two different versions of this video. One with a big box and another one with a smaller box. This bigger box is clearly a box he rewrapped because it clearly has his business name as a receiver( he deals with signs or something) and a supplier he deals with in Grand Rapids. (If you look carefully, there’s an address and phone number.) The supplier deals with signs and displays. The video posted on here is a re edit. It does not show him walking to the door and picking up a” package” left on his door step from Fedex. Really? Fed Ex just drops of packages of extreme value with no signature required and you happen to have a video camera running. The iphone box cover looks reprinted(remember he does signs for a living) Buddy give it up, you’ve had your 15 min of fame. The phone is wrapped in some material he deals with. Dolt.
Well of course he’s opened it before….Did you listen to the video? He tells you right at the beginning that he had to jailbreak the phone in order to use it on Rogers. Man, some peoples children
looks real BUT why is the carrier name “Rogers” in lower case? all my iphones and friends’ iphones carrier name of rogers has been in all caps “ROGERS”
Try actually comprehending the video next time, said that he to jailbreak and unlock the phone in order to use it. You and the person that liked your comment need to listen.
I’d say there’s no reason not to believe this is a fake. Just some guy excited about his white iPhone 4 and a bunch of skeptics.
Is it just me or does the white of the phone not match the white of the home button?
Also, something about it just looks cheaper than i picture the real thing being….
So did mine
One of the biggest tells to me is that this guy bought it outright from somewhere, i’m assuming the states. did he get a 2 year contract? did he buy it off ebay? where does he specifiy? i think he just changed the housing on a black iphone, and made a shitty white box. the box is one of the first tells
Another thing, iphone 4s dont come with sim removal tools in USA… why did his have it?
Same here, got a micro sim tool with my iPhone 4, and the white iPhone 4 in the video sure looks authentic to me. Maybe there’s a leak at the factory and some white ones were released without apple knowledge. ???
if you look closely, also, he has english and french instructions in the box. this is a definite point that it is fake. he clearly specifies he had to unlock it to “use it in canada” meaning he did not buy it in canada.
third thing pointing to fake. it has a dimple above the front-facing camera and earspeaker. possibly a white plaque that goes ontop of the black. the dimple is most likely used to remove the plaque later.
there’s a website that sells white SHELL for iphone 4… I saw it like a month ago. So it’s probly just that thing. BTW i recieved my black bumper from the case program yesterday. Vancovuer here….
Looks convincing. If you look at 3:14 the glass looks flush with the metal band (antenna). To me this looks like a cover, that explains why the glass looks like the glass is as wide as the metal band, however I will be calling apple to ask.
The iphone 4 in canada comes with an ejector tool, apparently not those in the US. It is made by a company called Liquidmetal technologies.
I agree with Ducatis2r. Even though iPhones are a “die hard gadget” for all of us, the Apple store should have limited their purchase to just “1” knowing it would be a high demand product at launch. That way it just gives others who wishes to buy one a chance to snag one up if they could.
Why would he have to jailbreak it to use it on Rogers? Rogers is one of the main carriers of the iPhone in Canada, and has been since the original iPhone. This makes no sense.
Dude, the white iphone 4 is out now. I had a call today telling me there was a white 16gig in stock if I wanted it. I told them I want the 32
but that is still incorrect. if it was locked yes he would have to unlock it but jailbreaking has nothing to do with what carriers the phone is capable of working with. jailbreaking just makes it so you can play around with the appearance of your phone and get apps for free that you would otherwise have to pay for!
definitely not from the states. white ones haven’t even been released in the us. they don’t even have a date set.
Wrong. Jailbreaking also allows you to be able to unlock your iPhone using something called ultrasn0w.
Real…and that IS what comes with all Canadian Iphones-sim removal tool included. Good for him. the Holy Grail of Iphones for now.
This is easily 100% fake… if a White iPhone happened to make it out for real, it would have been A) all over the the blogs, b) it would be sitting on ebay for a very good amount of money.
I think you’ve been had
I’ve been with Apple since the first Mac in 1984, but this iPhone 4 things has finally done it for me. It’s one thing to limit initial supply to increased demand but this is ridiculous. I live in Victoria and there are no Apple stores here. I have a list of over a dozen Rogers or multicarrier stores to call (most gave me the “best” time of day to call) and at best they get two or three phones a day and of course they are sold by the time I find out. Some places had one but they were for Bell or Telus. Some actual Rogers Wireless dealers claim they have never yet received one iPhone 4 (they still have the 3GS on display).
If the product was “perfect” out of the box, Apple can claim bragging rights but it’s a flawed piece with ad hoc solutions supported with attitudinal corporate snobbery and indifference.
There are Android phones that simply do more, have better cameras and are far less hassle.
I have an iPad 3G so I don’t really surf on my 3GS anymore.
This all said, I probably will buy an iPhone 4 but only when I can walk into a store that’s convenient for me and ask for one. Meanwhile, my 3GS runs iOS4 fine, is jailbroken, and is perfectly acceptable for me right now.