Over 1.7 million iPhone 4 units have been sold in the first three days and they’re all colored black. While some might come in brown (thanks to Gresso’s $3,000 African wood-and-swarovski mod), and up to 50 will come decked in an outrageous amount of ice (to the tune of $20,000 after Stuart Hughes slaps a handful of diamonds onto it), you’re going to have to either wait til the end of the month or fork out an extra $229 if you want a simple white iPhone 4 before everyone else.
Now, why would you spend an extra $229 for a white iPhone a couple of weeks before everyone else? We really don’t know. Maybe you’re the type. You know, the type who’d go for the Gresso mod or the Stuart Hughes treatment, but you only had $229 to spend, and you already have a black one. Whatever the reason, here’s how to do it:
Step 1: send your cash to the guys at whiteiphone4now (who apparently wants you to “be one of the first in the world to own a white iPhone 4”). They’ll send you back a kit that includes a white iPhone 4 front panel, rear cover, home button, front support frame, Retina Display, and the matching touch digitizer.
Step 2: if you’re handy and you have a strong stomach, go over ifixit’s guide to taking your iPhone 4 apart. You’re going to have to break down your black iPhone and replace the external parts with the white components you got with your $229.
Step 3: If you just don’t have the stomach for it, you can send your black iPhone along with the white parts (and add around $54 plus shipping) to BrokeMyiPhone and have them perform the operation for you.
It’s not easy, but this is what you have to go through if you want to be “original”—at least until everyone else buys their white iPhone by the end of the month. Of course, you can just keep the cash, stop being an impatient douche, and wait for Apple to release the real white units along with everyone else. Then use your saved money to buy a roll of masking tape, a can of black spray paint, and turn your white iPhone into a trashy black one. Just because you can.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone 4, Mobile Phones, White iPhone 4
