Apple’s smartphone sales have been good in the last couple of months. The company is confident that it will sell even more phones this year: Apple just ordered 85 million to 90 million iPhones for this year’s initial run. It also fits with Apple’s apparent strategy to put Force Touch into all of its devices – it was introduced in the Apple Watch, and has already been integrated into Apple’s MacBook.
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A purported schematic for the next-gen iPhone, obtained by Engadget Japan, reveals that the phone could have a thickness of 7.1mm, a tad bit increase than the current iPhone which measure 6.9mm.
AAPL’s strongest product is still the iPhone, which last quarter accounted for $40.3 billion in revenue, or almost 70% of the company’s sales. The mobile division of the Apple brand is known to release new models, occasionally more than once in a year.
Force Touch – This technology allows the touch screen to sense the amount of pressure behind a tap, allowing for different functionality depending on how hard you press the screen.
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But it was a move that has paid off big for it so far with 135.6 million iPhones sold through the first half of its fiscal year, according to Apple quarterly financial data.
Aside from these, the rumored Apple iPhone is said to be powered by Apple’s A9 processor with a 2 GB of random access memory (RAM) and an improved Qualcomm LTE chip. However, all these remain to be rumors unless Apple finally makes an official announcement.
Also rattling investors was a report this week by research firm Slice Intelligence that sales of the Apple Watch have dropped since its launch in April.
It hasn’t been clear if the phones would be called iPhone 6S, as is likely given the minimal changes expected, or iPhone 7. If the company is up to Apple’s standards, this will be the first time Apple will have employed three manufacturers at the same time to produce new iPhone models. The report hinted that Foxconn and Pegatron will serve as the main suppliers for Apple’s upcoming smartphone.
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The Journal said Apple is considering using Taiwan-based Wintron as its third assembler.
