Well, would you have a gander at that? That , friends, is Apple’s long-awaited , hardly-forgotten white iPhone 4 , and so far as we can tell, this is actually the real deal. We’ve seen retailers making space for the elusive handset over the past few months, and earlier today, we heard that Vodafone UK’s inventory systems were showing the white iPhone 4 as shipping in. Now, we’ve secured a few images of a 16GB model from a separate source that has seemingly made its way into the hands of one lucky customer (read: bloke) over in Britain. As the story goes, the carrier’s point-of-sale system rang it up as a black iPhone, and shortly after the sale went down, Voda sent out a notice to halt sale of these gems ” until next week .” Just so you know, the MC60 4 B/A model number shown here is particularly interesting when compared to our own in-house UK iPhone 4; the latter, which is also a 16GB edition, sports a model number of MC60 3 B/A. We suspect we aren’t going too far out on a limb by suggesting that the “3″ and “4″ are there to represent hue variations, and if you’d like to stretch the theory one step further, MC60 5 B/A represents the 32GB black iPhone 4. In other words, don’t be shocked when the white 32 gigger rolls in as MC60 6 B/A. So, is this the first legitimate sign that a white iPhone 4 is but days away from going on sale? We’re hardly experts in meteorology, but it sure felt like spring in Londontown today. P.S. – 9 to 5 Mac suggests that it’ll be landing on April 27th , at least in the Netherlands. [Thanks, Anonymii] Gallery: Vodafone UK stocks official white iPhone 4 Exclusive: White iPhone 4 lands at Vodafone UK originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink