According to the consulting company, Lazard Capital Markets Apple has released an updated iPhone in June of this year. However, this report does not purport to sensationalism: 2 years in a row, Apple made presentations of their child during the summer, which violate the tradition? Much more important is that it will be for the unit.
Amir, Daniel (Daniel Amir), a leading analyst of the company, referring to reliable sources, states that will be presented 2 substantially differ in functional models of iPhone. Production of the new phones should start in April and in June the new iPhone versions of "hi-end" and "low-end" will be presented to the public.
The best model would differ from current models of 32GB of memory and an improved camera, the junior model will have less memory, worse camera, and may be deprived of the module Wi-Fi.
Notably, according to analysts, a simplified version of the device is not provided in order to attract customers of different classes, and for distribution on a regional basis. Thus "low-end" smartphone version will be Brazil, Russia, India and China, while the analyst does not exclude the option that a simplified version of the device is intended only for Chinese users.
Meanwhile, Amir predicts, iPhone unit shipments for the first and second quarters could be higher than Wall Street's current forecast.
The low-end version is expected to run on a 3G network, rather than on Wi-Fi, while the high-end version is anticipated to double its storage capacity from 16GB to 32GB of NAND flash memory and feature improvements to its camera, Amir noted in his report, citing checks with Apple's iPhone channel partners.
He expects iPhone shipments to come in around 3.8 million to 4 million in the first quarter, while Wall Street is anticipating 3 million to 3.5 million units.
In the second quarter, iPhone shipments could reach 7 million to 8 million units, a threefold to fourfold increase over last year's second quarter performance, he asserts. Apple's new iPhones are expected to account for about 3 million of these figures, Amir said. Wall Street, meanwhile, is expecting Apple to ship 6.5 million to 7 million iPhones in the second quarter.
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