The latest forecast from Digitimes Research expects global shipments of the next-gen iPhone 12 lineup to total 63-68 million in the second half of 2020, a reduction of over five million units compared to the amount shipped a year earlier for the iPhone 11 lineup due to volume production and the official launch being likely to lag 4-6 weeks behind original schedules affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Peyton Cheng and Luke Lin for Digitimes Research:
However, the pending amount of extra unemployment benefits to be released by the US government could affect the scale of actual shipments of the iPhone 12 lineup by as many as10 million units in second-half 2020.
In addition to adding a dark blue model, for the first time, into the iPhone family products, Apple also brings a number of specification upgrades to new iPhones, including camera modules, displays and communications modules.
While all new iPhone products will come with facial ID functionality and support mmWave 5G technology, the top-end model of the iPhone 12 lineup will be equipped with a ToF camera and the wide-angel lens of its rear camera will also come with sensor-shift optical image stabilization functionality.
MacDailyNews Take: As expected. Back in April, TF International Securities’ uber-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the COVID-19 led to a one-month delay in iPhone 12 engineering verification testing for the new models. As we wrote back in April, “It’s certainly within the realm of possibility that Apple could have a staggered iPhone launch this year, à la 2017 when iPhone 8 and 8 Plus launched on September 22, 2017 followed weeks later by the iPhone X on November 3, 2017.”
In 2017, we waited until November 3rd to get one of the greatest products Apple ever made, the iPhone X and somehow we (and Apple) survived. If necessary, we can wait again for iPhone 12 to launch in October / November.
2020 has taught us how to sit and wait, for sure.
♪ ♫ ♬ Anticipation, an-tic-i-p-a-a-tion ♪ ♫ ♬
We expect the following models, names, specs, and prices:
iPhone 12
• 5.4-inch BOE OLED Super Retina display
• 5G cellular connectivity
• A14 SoC
• 4GB memory
• 128GB, 256GB storage
• Aluminum casing
• Dual rear camera system
• $649, $749
iPhone 12 Max
• 6.1-inch BOE OLED Super Retina
• 5G cellular connectivity
• A14 SoC
• 4GB memory
• 128GB, 256GB storage
• Aluminum casing
• Dual rear camera system
• $749, $849
iPhone 12 Pro
• 6.1-inch Samsung OLED Super Retina XDR with ProMotion and 10-bit Color Depth display
• 5G cellular connectivity
• A14 SoC
• 6GB memory
• 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Stainless steel casing
• Triple camera system
• LiDAR
• $999, $1099, $1299
iPhone 12 Pro Max
• 6.7-inch Samsung OLED Super Retina XDR with ProMotion and 10-bit Color Depth display
• 5G cellular connectivity
• A14 SoC
• 6GB memory
• 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Stainless steel casing
• Triple camera system
• LiDAR
• $1099, $1199, $1399
Maybe Apple is waiting until after the election.
I am not surprised by the 4-6 week delay in shipping the new iPhone models. Locally, I have to wait two weeks to get a mere bike wheel repaired whereas one week was the most before the pandemic.
The so-called “Deep State” is comprised of black hats and white hats, the latter doing their best as humanly possible with angelic help to keep America on the good path. Donald is a black hat helped by dark forces to rise up from the deepest parts of the Deep State to upend US governance: He used the tried and proven Stalinist and Un’s political model to suppress, minimize, and delay scientific remedies based on the best facts available at the time about the rapid spread of dangerous COVID-19, worse, painting a rosy picture of its highly infectious pandemic effects. Like a scared politician who is afraid to lose the election, he and his science advisor, Sean Hannity, said that it is only one tenth as deadly as the common flu; It has been months. How wrong he was. Had he not delayed even his current meager response to slowing it down, the delay in the new iPhone’s release would most likely be cut in half. As an end note, Donald is directly responsible for the deaths of many old and young people who died via COVID-19’s amplification of preexisting sicknesses. He is as guilty as Bush and Obama were for killing innocent civilians and US troops in Corporate/Capitalist wars. There has to be a new beginning with the removal of such Donald/Barak/Dubya and their NeoCon and NeoLibBlack Hats whose chaotic MO is that of the comic book Joker from rising up.
Only then can we begin to use Apple products to make the world into a much better place and use them to their highest technological and humanistic potential. And now the DNC is trying to force on my the mentally deficient Joe and the dark skinned Kamala who grew up in near luxury in Canada. Her Blackness is manufactured to appear sympathetic to Black Lives Matter, both liking to incarcerate people, she using Joe’s legislation to incarcerate minorities. What a bad choice to have. Thank higher powers that I understand this and that I can do good work on my iMac.
The launch will lag until they get more information that indicates it’s back on track… of course.