Recent developments have emerged as the The Wall Street Journal states that Apple is preparing a new iPhone to launch during the third quarter of this year. An expected 25 million units will be produced through the end of this year.
Apple’s sales estimates of the new iPhone is quite aggressive. It told us to prepare to help the company meet its goal of 25 million units by the end of the year,” said another person at one of Apple’s suppliers. “The initial production volume will be a few million units… we were told to ship the components to assembler Hon Hai in August.
It’s been also rumored that the new iPhone will be almost the same as the current iPhone 4 but more thinner and lighter, although Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn/Hon Hai is having difficulties on the new device due to it being “complicated and difficult to assemble.” Two of the people, however, cautioned that shipments of the new iPhone could be delayed if Hon Hai can’t improve its yield rate as the new iPhone is “complicated and difficult to assemble.
