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hi I'm Ken Sherman's section editor for cnet.com and it's a big day here in the studio because we actually have the white iPhone yes it's the white iPhone 4 we've waited so long for it months and months and months and well you probably waited so long that you might not even care at this point but we're gonna show it to you later just because it has been so talked about and we still don't know why it took Apple so long to introduce this device we've heard that it could have been the proximity sensor we also heard a rumor on the 3GS there was some discoloration on the white iPhone so we never know but this device is finally here we're gonna show it to you of course it is exactly the same we are showing a Verizon phone here and AT&T Verizon will both offer the white iPhone and of course the only differences will be what network it runs on features are exactly the same on the black iPhone 4 so it's gonna have the camera it's gonna have iTunes connectivity it's gonna have the iPod player it's gonna have the browser everything that you'd expect on that phone is gonna be there and there are no cosmetic differences except for the white color you will notice a line up here the black iPhone hatch has that as well you just can't see it because like the skin of the phone it's also black you have to hold it up to the light to really see that line but that's the only thing that's different this is the Verizon iPhone so of course there is that extra line here in the antenna but again that's the only differences you're gonna see starting with the earlier iPhones I've never been such a fan of the white models but I know a lot of people have been so it's great that you can now have the option to buy it of course it doesn't have a unicorn horn on it you might be waiting for that because a lot of people call this a tech unicorn but it does just doesn't have that unicorn horn on the back I thought the back looked a little cheaper than the black iPhone it's just a real subjective thing that I saw you may not agree but just didn't like the skin quite as much the upside though is the back won't show fingerprints as easily as the black iPhone gets smudgy really quickly and you're not gonna see that here now there's been a lot of controversy over whether the I white iPhone is actually thicker than the black model some blogs have posted photos they do see a difference even though it's maybe point two millimeters which is hardly anything and other blogs and news reports have said it's no difference check the video where we actually take the phone down to a place in San Francisco they can measure things really really accurately down to even smaller than a millimeter so we'll see if that's actually true but for right now I don't see any difference we also heard that the white iPhone doesn't accommodate the standard cases or bump that Apple's actually put out well Apple was good enough to send us a white bumper where she can use any bumper you'd like and you know when I snapped it on I didn't think it went on any more difficult than on the black iPhone I also didn't see a difference when I tried using this other case that I currently use on a black iPhone 4 it snapped on just as easily as well so I think even if it is a little bit bigger I don't think it's a big deal and be honest with you I'm sure that when you make a bunch of products like that sometimes there are very very slight differences to come out of the production line but overall the white iPhone exactly the same as I said may not be your cup of tea but it's finally finally here and if you don't care and I'm sure there's a lot of you out there that don't well it's here anyway for you I'm Kent German and this is the white iPhone 4