White iPhone 4 coming in spring? What about the iPhone 5?
White iPhone 4 is reportedly coming to stores in Spring of 2011 via AT&T (still not sure with Verizon), that’s good news right? But what about the iPhone 5 also expected to arrive next year?
According to comments on some blog posts that I’ve checked, “there’s no point” in buying a white iPhone 4 because iPhone 5 is coming. These disappointed Apple customers believe that a white iPhone 4 will become irrelevant because of iPhone 5.
My answer is a big no.
White iPhone 4 reportedly coming in spring of 2011. What about the iPhone 5? Some say it's a big conflict.
The much-anticipated white coloured-iPhone 4 will still record staggering sales, and I’m basing my opinion on behaviors of consumers when the iPhone 4 arrived, while iPhone 3GS was still being promoted by Apple, and the data published by multiple consumer reports when iPhone 4 debuted.
There’s also a possibility that Apple will not release a white iPhone 5 next year, to balance the consumer’s attention with a white iPhone 4. That’s marketing.
So, the possibility of white iPhone 4, and (non-white) iPhone 5 in a store is most likely a win-win scenario for Apple.
And speaking of win-win, another advantage of Apple inc in the smartphone market is the much-publicized, and much-talked about Verizon version of iPhones, most probably an iPhone 4, or an iPhone 5.
With the stiff competition of Apple and Google’s Android (plus Windows Phone 7 and RIM), these variety of products will surely give Apple an edge on the billion-dollar smartphone market in Northern America, and Europe.
Photo above: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak flashing a “white” iPhone 4. According to CNN, the white iPhone 4 Wozniak was holding is the modified version of a black iPhone 4 using a kit that a Chinese teenager was selling before being shut down by Apple. See the complete report here.