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.
After Gray Powell lost the iPhone prototype during a rowdy, inebriated night in a San Jose bar, Apple seemed to react strongly to misplacement of the prototype. You would think that after this grave error of Powell, that Apple would have a lockdown on their security of the iPhone prototypes.
Well, supposedly some mysterious Vietnamese business man bought an iPhone prototype and iPad. This man lost his iPhone prototype and now the media is in another whirlwind of excitement. The main differences between this prototype and Gray Powell’s prototype is that “the screws on the bottom near the dock connector have disappeared, the phone’s capacity is listed as 16 GB rather than XX GB like on the Gizmodo iPhone, and the battery has a 5.00 watt-hour capacity compared to the Gizmodo iPhone’s 5.25 watt-hour battery. In all other respects, it appears to be the same iPhone, complete with a front-facing camera, a flash for the rear camera, micro-SIM slot on the side, and a metallic midsection with curiously visible seams” [via TUAW]. Supposedly this iPhone 4the genration may have graphics capabilities. Watch this video as Tinhte.com observes the differences with the iPhone 4th generation:
