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Update: More disputed findings have been added to the 2 millimeter white iPhone controversy. I'll just say this is the last time you will hear something about this from us. Photos below: Consumer Reports using a caliper to measure thickness and Engadget's simple test showing the small size difference. In the end this would seem like a manufacturing issue and not an intentional design compromise:
Earlier this week, white iPhone 4 owners discovered that the device is slightly thicker than its black variant. This wasn't really something we thought was worth covering, but now, for whatever reason, Apple is claiming there is no discrepancy.
If this was a new device, it wouldn't be a big deal, but since this is just a white version of the iPhone 4, many expect it to fit in cases designed for the black version of the iPhone 4, which was released 10 month ago. Tipb quantified the difference at roughly 0.2mm: the black iPhone 4 is 9.3mm while the white iPhone 4 is 9.5mm. Apple's iPhone 4 Technical Specifications webpage lists 9.3mm as the depth for both. It's unknown whether the extra thickness has to do with opacity, a layer of UV protection, or something else entirely.
9to5Mac reader Ernesto Barron recently asked Apple Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Phil Schiller on Twitter if the news was true. Schiller responded to Barron via a Twitter direct message: "It is not thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read."
It's not clear why Schiller decided to answer through a direct message or why he is blatantly lying to Barron. It certainly would not be the first time Apple has tried to convince its customers and the general public of something that is completely false. Just last month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs decided to deny that Apple's 3G devices regularly record your position. Apple eventually ended up having to come clean on the details, but Jobs' original statement is still false.
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HaMsTeYr said:
Nah guys, don't hate on apple, they probably needed space to now put in a physical tracking layer so that they can claim now that its not the software doing the tracking, its that silicon chip in that extra 2mm's sending your position to them while they sit back in their chairs fingers meetings Mr. Burns style.
Yess..... Exxceeelleenttt....
You can already imagine jobs doing it.
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Despite the fact that it is not thicker: Consumer Reports, [link]
This article should be updated and corrected.
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I love how all the "proof that it's not thicker" pictures are taken at an angle.
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Noobs, the white iPhone has a halo from the lighting in that photo making it look larger. Consumer reports did a test and found that they ARE the same size.
http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/white-and-black-iphones-a
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Zilpha said:
neofryboy said:I love how all the "proof that it's not thicker" pictures are taken at an angle.
And they aren't even the same side of the device. Looks to me like they are purposely taking a measurement on the white one across a raised area on the front, yet the black one seems to be measures across the camera lens side.
Good job! I believe the image where they are laying on the table more than these so-called caliper measurements.
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My GF works at AT&T, and the cases do seem to fit the white iPhones, however, there is an increasing report of customers who have started to get the antenna issue again, due to the fact that, its considerably tighter due to the increased (whether visibly negligible or not) thickness. It's more common with the the Otterbox cases...
So yeah, it is thicker.
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princeton said:
gwailo247 said:
Guest said:
Noobs, the white iPhone has a halo from the lighting in that photo making it look larger. Consumer reports did a test and found that they ARE the same size.
[link]
I don't quite see the halo in the pictures with him holding the calipers, can you point out where?
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The top far left of the white model. It's very glowy and you can tell that it isn't actually part of the phone. The phones are identical in size.
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The top far left of the white model. It's very glowy and you can tell that it isn't actually part of the phone. The phones are identical in size.
You misunderstood which pictures I was pointing to.
Not the photo of them side by side, the 8 photos of him measuring both devices with calipers. My post was somewhat facetious. All we have now is two different sites using calipers to show that they are a) different or b) the same.
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Who would have thought that actually a black iPhone is thicker than a black iPhone! [link]
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Who would have thought that actually a black iPhone is thicker than a black iPhone! [link]
Ah, I'm catching on. The white iPhone is actually the proper thickness, the year old iPhone is shrinking. In five more years it will be the size of an iPod Nano. =)
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At least the article was updated. I bet a lot of people who commented above have no left the thread because its not a clear cut Apple bashing issue. Maybe if somebody's case didn't fit their White as good as it did the Black it was that the case manufacturer's tolerances also sucked?
Also: The article is updated on the main page, but the title still includes "(despite the fact that it is)" on the forum's page for news. Maybe this is an oversite, but it certainly caters to the majority of the readership here to leave that disputable "fact" in the headline.
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Well, all I can Say is, "thank God the thickness issue has been cleared Up"! Now all the iPhone owners can go back to running their yaps while they try to drive their cars, without the extra burden of worrying about hand strain. Now they can affix their powers of concentration where it should be, on the pretty screen.
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dude wtf is an iphone? :^)
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"The world is coming to an end"! "The Apple white iPhone may or may not be thicker than the black iPhone"! When I first heard about this, I was so depressed, I could hardly get out of bed.
This should have been the lead story on the broadcast network news yesterday. Instead they had some superficial, really trivial s*** about Osama Bin Laden being killed.
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captaincranky:
1036136This should have been the lead story on the broadcast network news yesterday. Instead they had some superficial, really trivial s*** about Osama Bin Laden being killed.
Spot on, people just forget the fact that 'The Empire' itself created this menace in the first place; and yet when this person was no longer of any use to them, he turned against them and the rest is well history now. If it were a political discussion I could quote dozens of incidences when various agencies of Empire got involved in 'terrorist' acts in various countries in the last 50 years or so; killing countless people.
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"Yes, but he's our bastard"
Until he isn't and then we discard him.
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Techspot is really hurting for some worthwhile journalism. It seems to often attract the afflicted. I suppose that would make sense given the content.
Amazing y'all stick with it.
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"(despite the fact that it is)"
Isn't actually. Very bad reporting. Apple could sue if Techspot actually mattered.
Techspot needs to clean up their act if they wish to be considered a source of tech news with any integrity.
This post will probably be erased - another example of Techspot's lack of integrity.
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After I saw this back up again I checked the IPs of the last 3 guest posters and they were all from your IP. I'll bring them back because I think (especially your first one) doesn't seem to make any sense, which is why I deleted it. I deleted the one after that because it was inflammatory and had already been covered when this topic was still active, well over a month ago. Usually when there is a reply shortly after another (after a period of prolonged inactivity) it was posted only because the topic got bumped back to active.
Why did you seek out something a month and a half old just to complain?
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Oops, you're right. This is plenty old and I thought it was new. My bad.
You can delete those posts and this if you prefer. I thought it was just some more all to typical Apple bashing.
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