Digitimes senior analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, citing sources from Taiwan-based component makers, reports that Foxconn, Apple’s iPhone 4G maker, is planning to ship 24 million of the new iPhones in 2010 beginning in June. According to the report, the first shipment will consist of 4.5 million iPhones for the first part of the year, with 19.5 million phones to be shipped over the rest of the year.
The DigiTimes report also mentions some of its new features including fringe-field switching (FFS) technology which will improve the display’s performance in sunlight and create a wider viewing angle, just in time for iBooks on the iPhone. Additionally, the new iPhones will feature a thinner, 960×640 resolution screen, which will create room for larger batteries and exceed Android’s 854×480 resolution.
For confirmation of this and other iPhone 4g claims, we will just have to wait for WWDC on June 7th when the official unveiling of the iPhone 4G is expected.
Last weekend, Gray Powell, a recent 2006 graduate from North Carolina University lost his prized iPhone 4G prototype at a San Jose bar. Supposedly, it was his birthday and he got a bit inebriated and lost his iPhone at a bar. The media whirled with excitement as the iPhone 4G was dissected by multiple media groups. My initial thoughts were that Powell was going to get fired for this unintentional leak, but instead, he is getting all sorts of attention.
Larry King is talking about him as well as….Lufthansa?
According to Gawker, Powell received this invitational letter from Lufthansa:
A free trip to Germany? Really? The man loses a prototype of a product that will probably profit the company millions of dollars and he is rewarded? Whenever I have lost anything, I would somehow get punished.
Lose House Keys = Change all the locks in the house = Expensive
Lose Cat = Have to buy a new cat to trick my younger siblings that the cat wasn’t lost (ok, maybe that is a Meet The Parents reference)
Lose Library Book = Library Fees
Lose iPhone 4G = Notoriety and a Free Trip To Germany
It first starts off as a casual day, where you meet up with friends at a San Jose bar. Who knew what was going to happen after the leak of the “Apple-gate” secrets:
This weekend, “someone” from Apple or at least someone who has access or has relations with the big boys at Apple left a prototype of the Apple iPhone 4G phone at a San Jose bar. Gizmodo, Engadget and various other tech blogs are obsessed with this iPhone discovery and this news spread like wildfire. So here we are spreading the MSG around this stir fry of news.
Here is the iPhone 4G in action:
To be honest though, my money goes on Eric Schmidt as the mole/schmuck who left the iPhone 4G at the bar. He was probably meeting a young, “CEO-digger.”
