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Report: Apple ups iPhone shipment target
Apple reportedly expects to ship 20 million to 21 million
iPhones around the world next quarter, with almost 25 percent
of them CDMA phones.
Citing the usual sources from Taiwan-based component
suppliers, DigiTimes says Apple bumped its first-quarter 2011
shipment goal to the 20 million to 21 million range from 19
million units previously, telling its component suppliers to get
ready to fill that new target.
If true, that'll be a healthy jump from the 15.5 million units that
will have shipped during the fourth quarter, according to
estimates indicated by the sources. For the full year, the sources
say Apple will have shipped 47 million iPhones around the
world.
But the juiciest bit of information unveiled by DigiTimes focuses
specifically on CDMA phones.
For the first quarter, Apple is eyeing a shipment target of 5
million to 6 million CDMA iPhones. Verizon's network runs on
CDMA. The sources say all those phones will ship to North
America and Asia Pacific during the first quarter, adding fuel
to the fire behind reports calling for Verizon to get the iPhone
next quarter.
We e-mailed Apple for confirmation/comment about the
DigiTimes report, but the company did not immediately
respond. We'll update this story if we hear anything back.
Hitting markets outside North America and Asia Pacific, Apple
has also increased its first-quarter shipment goal of WCDMA
iPhones to 14 million to 15 million, up from 13 million,
according to the sources cited by DigiTimes.
Though rumors of a Verizon iPhone have persisted for a couple
of years, more news sources and analysts have chimed in lately
trying to give some credence to those claims. In October, the
Wall Street Journal said Apple was prepping to make a CDMA iPhone. Fortune soon followed by citing sources who said that a Verizon iPhone was a "fait accompli."
recently, calling for Verizon to launch the iPhone about midway
through the first quarter of next year.
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