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Apple Ordered 4 Million New iPhones for Q2 2009?

Slashphone recaps a ChinaTimes / Commercial Times report which claims that Apple has placed an order for 4 million units of the next generation iPhone. Per Slashphone's summary:

According to its insider news, Apple has already ordered 4 million units of new iPhones and expected to receive the shipment by end of this quarter. These iPhones might be a combination of 3 new models, with one only supports EDGE wireless data connection, another one for 3G wireless data connection and one model made for China market (for Chinas TD-SCDMA network?). There will not be iPhone Nano and the new iPhone 2009 will be similar to the current iPhone 3G, according to the report.

China Times had may have somewhat accurately predicted the original iPhone's production in 2007. The possibility of multiple versions of the next iPhone has been raised in an earlier analyst report with the possibility of a high-end and low-end model.

Apple is rumored to be revising its iPhone this summer with the 2009 WWDC in June being the likely announcement venue.

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37 months ago
Er... 'similar to iPhone 3G' in what sense... looks or innards as well???

And this whole Edge and 3G manifestations sounds about bogus to me.. unless they are planning to sell Edge without contract.... ?!?
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37 months ago
If they do bring the EDGEphone back, its got to be cheap. Not only that, but if they can make it as thin as an iPod touch, I think it'll be a hit.
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37 months ago
This info is so vague, hopefully we'll see something more specific soon.
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37 months ago
A cheaper edge only version makes more sense than a smaller nano. How much smaller could they make it and still have it keep its usability?
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37 months ago
Metal backing, maybe a little more computational power, louder speakers than the original iPhone, and I'll replace mine. Contract's up in a couple months anyway.

Little better battery would be nice, as would FM radio and a nicer camera. Front-facing camera for video conferencing is not going to happen, at least not without a premium monthly charge.
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37 months ago
It is vague - I'm definitely going for the higher end one!

Saved up for it now.
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37 months ago

If they do bring the EDGEphone back, its got to be cheap. Not only that, but if they can make it as thin as an iPod touch, I think it'll be a hit.


Exactly! In my country 3G is non-existent thing anyway. I get 3G like 1 time a day at one specific place for 5 minutes and then its gone.
Don't really care for 3G. Edge does a fine job for receiving emails and twitter.
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37 months ago

Er... 'similar to iPhone 3G' in what sense... looks or innards as well???


If you read the google translation of china times it says "looks similar to the original iPhone".
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37 months ago

Er... 'similar to iPhone 3G' in what sense... looks or innards as well???


I don't care much if it looks similar to the current 3G (though I still think the original iPhone looks better), but it needs to have significantly better hardware (camera, processor, etc.) to keep up, especially with the Palm Pre.
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37 months ago
The translation also keeps saying something about the camera and how it works well with the light, I don't know if that means it will have a light or if it works better in different light levels..

Hopefully the camera will be a big improvement over the current one anyway
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