Apple asks suppliers to produce up to 80 million large-screen iPhones ahead of release
Apple Inc has asked its suppliers to manufacture between 70 million and 80 million of its two forthcoming large-screen iPhones by the end of the year,the Wall Street Journal reported.
Its forecast for what is commonly called the iPhone 6 is significantly larger than the initial order last year of between 50 million and 60 million versions of the iPhone 5S and 5C—which had a display measuring 4-inches diagonally, these people said. Both of the coming models are expected to feature metal cases similar to the iPhone 5S and likely come in multiple colors, these people said.
Apple stuck with smaller displays on iPhones even as rival smartphone makers rolled out bigger screens and customers clamored for larger phones. Demand for larger-screen smartphones boosted Samsung, which started offering a 4.8-inch display in its Samsung Galaxy S models in 2012 and introduced an array of bigger phones.
Both iPhone 6 screens will be larger than the 4.0-inch (10.2-cm) panels on Apple’s existing iPhone 5S and 5C models.
The new phone models are also expected to feature metal cases similar to the iPhone 5S and likely come in multiple colors.
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