iphone 2

Taoviet leak

Pictures and video of a second prototype were published on a Vietnamese website, Taoviet, on May 12, 2010.^[17] It was almost identical to the first, and used an A4 chip manufactured by Apple.^[18] The website purchased the prototype for $4,000.^[19] DigiTimes reported that the screen resolution of the new phone was 960-by-640, which was confirmed by Apple at the iPhone 4's official announcement.

Release

The iPhone 4 was made available for pre-order on June 15, 2010. Customers attempting to pre-order the iPhone 4 reported problems with the pre-order process on the U.S. and U.K. online Apple Stores which crashed due to the surge in traffic.^[20] The same issue was reported with AT&T and SoftBank, Apple's exclusive partners in the United States and Japan respectively, who suspended advance sales of the iPhone 4 as demand threatened to exceed supply.^[21] Retail stores were also unable to complete pre-order transactions due to the servers crashing.^[22]
Apple and its partner carriers received 600,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 4 in the first 24 hours, the largest number of pre-orders Apple had received in a single day for any device up to that point.^[23] Engadget reported that at 20:30 UTC, all iPhone 4 pre-order suppliers had sold out.^[24] 1.7 million iPhone 4s were sold in its first three days of availability.^[25]
The iPhone 4 has also been released through Orange in Tunisia and was available in eight cities at the launch.^[26] In South Korea, it was released by KT on September 10. In Israel, it was released, too, on September 24, through Cellcom, Pelephone and Orange. It was launched in Thailand on September 23 by AIS, DTAC and True Move, and in Malaysia on September 26 in Kuala Lumpur, and nationwide on September 27 according to the website of Maxis.^[27]
The iPhone 4 was released in South Africa on September 22 on the Vodacom and MTN networks, in very limited quantities.^[28] The iPhone 4 was launched in Vietnam on September 30 by VinaPhone and Viettel, at first in 3 major cities: Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh city and Da Nang, and then all over the country by the end of October.^[29][30]
The iPhone 4 was launched in India on May 27, 2011 by Aircel and Airtel. Aircel is releasing the 16 GB iPhone 4 for 34,500 and the 32 GB one for 40,990. The smartphone will be available via contract from both service providers.^[31]
On January 11, 2011, Verizon Wireless (Verizon) announced during a media event that it had reached an agreement with Apple and would begin selling a CDMA iPhone 4 in the United States, ending Apple's exclusivity agreement with AT&T. The Verizon iPhone went on sale on February 10 and pre orders began on February 3.^[32][33][34] The Verizon iPhone includes the 'Personal Hotspot" feature which allows a user to use the iPhone as a wireless hotspot, with up to five devices connecting at one time. The February 3 presale of the iPhone 4 broke Verizon's first day sales records for a single device.^[35]
On June 24, 2010, Apple issued a statement that the white iPhone 4 models were proving more "challenging to manufacture" than expected, and initially pushed the release date back to the second half of July. There was a lot of speculation surrounding the delay of the white iPhone 4. Among the most popular rumors are those concerning the phone's internal camera being adversely affected by light leaking in due to the semi-translucent glass and the white paint. Other sources report that the problem relates to Apple's inability to match the white color of the front face plate with that of the home button.^[36] On April 27, Apple announced that it would be releasing the white iPhone 4 model on April 28, 2011, for both GSM and CDMA.^[37] The release of the white iPhone 4 was carried out on April 28, and is still available for purchase.^[38][39]
During Apple's official unveiling of the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, it was announced that Sprint would begin carrying the reconfigured CDMA iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S in the U.S. on October 14.^[40][41]