Could Apple also be delaying the iPhone 5c’s successor (the iPhone 6c) so that their partners could focus on Apple Watch shipments for the holiday season? The new report, coming from Taiwanese publication Digitimes, quotes unnamed insider sources from the semiconductor industry as it argues that the next-generation budget iPhone will be launched in Q2 2016.
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According to sources speaking to DigiTimes, Apple wants to included the newer A9 FinFET chip in the iPhone 6C instead of the originally planned 20nm SoC process, allowing for a better “spec upgrade and lower power consumption”.
This news comes less than a week after a separate source – analyst Timothy Arcuri – suggested all traces of a 4-inch iPhone have disappeared from Apple’s supply chain.
It does however seem odd that Apple would release a phone in the first half of the year, as the company has taken to announcing its latest handsets during September over the past years – especially as there has already been some leaks of an iPhone 6C from Apple itself. The people did not offer any specifics on which processors would be used or what the phones would be called. Earlier information would have us believe that the iPhone 6c will arrive with a metal build but will maintain an acceptable (depending on whom you ask) price tag.
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As for this year’s new iPhone products, we have more details related to their internal specifications. This info correlates strongly with previous rumors on the Apple A9 chip, one that’s also expected to be manufactured by Samsung and TSMC using the same chip manufacturing technologies.
