iPhone 4 won't repeat iPad international delay

Steve Jobs was active in e-mail again this weekend as he assuaged fears that the Canadian iPhone 4 launch would be delayed. Having been asked if extremely high sales would set back the launch a month as it did the iPad, the Apple executive simply answered "nope" to an iPhoneInCanada reader. The company has only given out a broad July target date so far and hasn't given signs that it will arrive early into the new month.

Suspicions have been raised that Apple may be facing production setbacks tied to availability of the iPhone 4's Retina Display, but these haven't been confirmed. The shortfall has more often been attributed to an all-time high 600,000 pre-orders and launch day lineups that in some cases left visitors without a phone even after waiting through business hours.

Apple faces a rare supply issue in Canada as it could serve as many as five carriers on launch -- Bell, Fido, Rogers, Telus and Virgin Mobile -- each of which will need its own separate hardware lock for subsidized versions.

By Electronista Staff