（TiPb的消息）英国无线通讯服务商Orange发邮件提醒顾客，不必期待白色iPhone 4的出现“直到今年年底”，鼓励他们考虑转买黑色机型，以代替继续订阅白色型号的上市通知。

“我们想让您知道年底以前英国不会有白色iPhone 4。假如您乐于再等几个月，我们将尽快在其回归商店时通知您。现在就想要一个iPhone 4？非此即彼，假如您现在就想要她，点击这里或访问您所在当地的Orange商店购买黑色iPhone 4 16GB或32GB。”

是Orange从Apple处得到正式的关于白色机型年底才上市的消息，或仅仅是其根据Apple先前“今年迟些日子”的公开披露而作出如上表示还不得为知。无论怎样，许多潜在的白色iPhone 4顾客所坚持的对于该设备的愿望将使得其更早而不是更晚出现。

Apple除了重申在制造工艺上面临挑战之外没有更多关于白色iPhone 4推迟上市的正式回应。一些消息表明Apple正在经受白色涂料不均匀导致的设备背部与衔接处背光泄露这一问题的考验。

以下原文来自MacRumorsTiPb reports that UK wireless carrier Orange has been emailing customers to notify them that availability of white iPhone 4 models is not expected “until the end of the year”, encouraging them to consider a black model instead while continuing to offer notification when the white models do arrive.

We wanted to let you know that there won’t be any white iPhone 4′s in the UK until the end of the year.

If you’re happy to wait another few months we’ll let you know as soon as they’re back in stock.

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Alternatively, if you want it now, click here or visit your local Orange shop to get the iPhone 4 Black 16GB or 32GB today.

It is unclear whether Orange has received official word from Apple that supplies should not be expected until the end of year or if the carrier is simply basing its claim on Apple’s public disclosure of a launch delay until “later this year”. Regardless, many potential white iPhone 4 customers have been holding out hope that the device might make its appearance sooner rather than later.

It is also unclear whether Apple would stagger white iPhone 4 launches as it has with other iPhone models and the iPad. In such a case, the United States would presumably be the first country (or in the first group of countries) to see a launch, and so it is unknown whether Orange’s “end of the year” claim would apply to all markets.

Apple has not officially acknowledged the reason for the white iPhone 4 delay other than citing manufacturing challenges. Some sources have claimed that Apple is experiencing problems with non-uniform application of the white paint leading to light leakage from the device’s backlight through its back and at seams.