Report: Foxconn tapped to manufacture next-gen iPhone

“Foxconn, Apple’s Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer, has reportedly received an order to build the next-generation handset, likely to arrive in mid-2010,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.

“Eldar Murtazin, editor in chief of Mobile Review, broke the news on his Twitter account Thursday in a brief, singular post: ‘Foxconn received order for next generation iphone,'” Hughes reports. “As noted by Engadget, Murtazin is the ‘ultimate insider’ for news in the mobile phone world.”

Hughes reports, “The timing makes sense, as Apple’s first three iPhone product debuts hit a June launch. For Apple to ramp up the production of millions of handsets in time for a global debut would take a significant amount of time.”

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