“Apple Inc. is expected to launch a high-speed wireless version of iPhone in the second quarter and produce as many as 8 million of the devices in the third quarter, according to Bank of America,” Sinead Carew and Scott Hillis report for Reuters.
Carew and Hillis report, “‘Our latest channel checks point to a significant production build of a 3G iPhone beginning in the month of June after an initial small build in May,’ Bank of America analyst Scott Craig said.”
“Craig said that now he expects production volume to be much higher than his previous estimates. He said Apple planned to build more than 3 million high-speed iPhones in May followed by more than 8 million in the third quarter of the year,” Carew and Hillis report.
“Craig, who had previously estimated 8 million iPhone units for the whole of 2008, said that was starting to look conservative unless some of the plans were pushed back,” Carew and Hillis report. “Many other analysts have said they expect Apple, which is holding a developer conference in June, to launch an advanced iPhone around that time.”
Full article here.
But then… don’t we all?
The competitors haven’t even copied the first iPhone properly yet, and Apple are about to bring an advanced one. Koowerl!
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a blog said this, so an analyst said this, so more blogs said this, then more analysts say it, how many times does something need to be said to be fact? (as many as the bible i suppose
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just for fun I want Steve to take away windows support for 1 week
………. feel better now?
I’m just trying to figure out what Apple is adding besides a 3G radio. There’s bound to be a surprise.
Reuters is a National Enquirer wannabe.
how many times does bob have to write inane comments to make us think his opinion counts. As many inane comments as microsoft execs telling us vista is great. Really
@ Anonymous©
My guess: A second camera and Video Messaging. Maybe not a full-duplex vPhone yet, due to bandwidth considerations… But why not? Give those bastards at RIM something to loose sleep over. As far as GPS goes… it’s not worth the power drain to me, unless they make it only come on when docked (say, in yer car). The cell tower triangulation-thingama-whatsis worked flawlessly on my recent trip down the Oregon coast. If you haven’t noticed yet, you can enter a destination, then hit route ‘from current location’ (or something) and BAM! Get from here to there, even if you Can’t Get There From Here.
Trouble is the wretched turn-by-turn navigation UI is created for brainless dunces who can’t read a map. No, I don’t need every little turn explained to me. Ho ho. But if I don’t hit ‘next’ at every corner the whole system is thrown off, and I’m 40 miles down the interstate, trying to get to the good bit where it tells me what bloody exit I should be looking for. You can hit the locator, but it doesn’t edit or update the route. So it’s good, but it could be better. Much better.
Sorry to hear about your troubles ChrissyOne.
@ anaknipedro
I didn’t even tell you about my troubles.
When I’m going on a trip I just load the address of where I’m staying into the address book on my MPB or iPod touch. Before I leave I bring it up on the touch over wi-fi so always have my map of the area with me. It works great.
WWJIOTi
do we have any real evidence of this being true? How does it fit in with the SDK that’s in June? Would Apple release a bunch of new features right after they open up the original? It doesn’t make sense to me to obsolete-ify the original iPhone with a new one right when the SDK comes out. Maybe I don’t know what i’m talking about.
what the he’ll is wrong with this site? I am just trying to read this article on my iPod and it has opened two f’ing different windows for ads. Fuck this. You guys are idiots.
Due to the freak nature of Time Zones and the instant nature of the Internet, I have acquired the ability to go back in time at will.
@jesus
Um-mm … is * f’ing * short for “fascinating”?
Cause I’m confused.
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good thing they have an excuse for not being open past 1pm on saturday. Keep expectin for me lazies.
Anonymous said
“I’m just trying to figure out what Apple is adding besides a 3G radio. There’s bound to be a surprise.”
I’m guessing (besides the 3G)-
-Two cameras (one on the back and one on the front)
-32 gb of storage
-tactile feedback in the form of a software update (demonstrated as being possible by an jailbroken app).
-Colors?
That’s what I would guess.
When a 3G phone is available, does anyone know if it will also work on the Edge system too? Or will the data functions only be available in upgraded 3G areas?
..MacDailyNews ..kindly delete my registered account. Since you now routinely delete all my posts ..3 in the last two days ..I don’t see any point in continuing ..goodbye to regulars
Doesn’t Apple hold a patent to embed a camera into a display screen? If Apple could figure out how to make that technology work, the impact would be HUGE. (People walking into poles, other folks, traffic – all while video conferencing. But on the other hand, I guess people do that now with text messaging.) Perhaps the reason we haven’t seen any new monitors from Apple is that they are currently working on this technology?
Yeah, any unlikely probability – but that doesn’t stop the analysts.
Peace.
@ 3G Question
Well that would be pretty useless if it were true. No, I believe that a 3G phone will use whatever system is available.
Are we ever to get Voice Dialing??
@ Chrissyone
Ya know, instead of pushing the next button everytime you make a turn, you can just press the little eyeball looking button and choose list… Much easier, for me at least.
I don’t see GPS coming anytime soon. I like the maps and such just how they are. I do see a lot of people doing things out of order though when trying to find things though.
For those of you that find maps / directions confusing, find where you want to go first, then click directions and either use current location or type an address.
To find a shop or whatever, make sure you zoom into the city or county its in first, or hit current location. The map only searches the area visible on the map. I see many people searching the entire state or even the USA for something that is 3 miles from their house.
Just had to get that off my chest. I feel better now.
@ Lurker
I saw that article too. Amazing concept! It seems that it’s not too far off from being achievable, but these things always tend to be 20x harder than I think they are…