iPhone News Updated

White iPhone now showing up in Apple Store App

Earlier this month Geek.com broke the news of the white iPhone 4 actually living and breathing in the wild. It turns out that the story that was relayed around why the white iPhone never made it to the public was because two different manufacturers produced the plastic button and glass front/back plates. Because of that, the colors don’t match perfectly, and that’s a no-go for Apple.

Now it seems that those manufacturing troubles may be behind Apple, as BGR was the first to report that you can now reserve a white iPhone 4 in either 16 or 32GB models at your local store.

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Facebook Launches an iPhone War from a Secret Bunker

It’s an incredible sneak attack, even by Silicon Valley standards: Fed up with the iPhone and immersed in trash talk, Facebook executives have reportedly created a secret bunker from which to develop a shadowy new phone platform.

The social network has acquired space for its phone skunkworks in “a ’secret’ other building, not inside Facebook’s main headquarters in Palo Alto, California,” according to Dan Frommer at Silicon Alley Insider. And it has named former venture capitalist and AOL music executive Chamath Palihapitiya to head up the program.

The smart money says Facebook is developing its own version of Google’s open source Android operating system for mobile phones, which would seem to put it in competition with Apple.

Which is just as well, given the bad blood between the two companies: A key iPhone manager dissed a high-profile Facebook mobile programmer as a “mediocre engineer,” and Facebook’s top executives have openly complained about their iPhones and iPhone reception. It could become a fierce fight, but given the security issues at both companies, it’s totally unclear who consumers should root for.

[Thanks: http://gawker.com/]