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A new iPhone is anticipated to debut in the up coming six weeks or so. And Apple’s provide chain is kicking into large gear to churn out a glut of the shiny new smartphones in buy to meet what is probable to be voracious need. But even when the upgraded iPhone arrives, it appears Apple will carry on to build the iPhone 4 in rather significant figures, according to Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar.
Here’s what he states is in the performs for Apple’s deliver chain:

From a provide chain viewpoint, complete iPhone volumes could be up substantial single digits sequentially to about 22 million models with the upgraded iPhone representing nearly quarter of the quantity. The “new” iPhone is anticipated to be a spec upgrade and not a complete redesign. It is probably that the present iPhone four could be repositioned as a “lower” cost device and will carry on to ship until the rollout of the completely redesigned iPhone sometime up coming calendar year.

Apple has marketed “last year’s” model at a discounted value formerly — most just lately with the iPhone 3GS after the iPhone 4 arrived — so that is not always new. But this report does jibe with many earlier reviews that say Apple is planning a “cheaper” iPhone 4, with just 8 GB of memory rather of the 16 and 32 GB variations that it’s been promoting considering that June 2010.
It makes perception Apple would continue on to sell as many iPhone 4s as it can. The company has racked up revenue of the iPhone four quite significantly unabated, offering twenty.3 million units in the most recent quarter, regardless of not possessing a new design iPhone in the summer season. Almost fifteen months following the iPhone four arrived, Kumar notes, it is still the finest-offering telephone for AT&T and Verizon.
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