Thinner and Lighter iPhone 5 On the Way in Q3?

[Maura]

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[FONT=&quot]The Wall Street Journal has a story today which underlines many of the current rumours about the next iPhone. According to the WSJ’s sources in Apple’s component supply chain, the next iPhone will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4, and will have an 8-megapixel camera. According to one of the sources, the phone will have a Qualcomm wireless baseband chip, which would represent a move away from Samsung, who currently make the iPhone 4’s memory chips, and Infineon Technologies, who make the baseband chips. [/FONT]

“Apple’s sales estimates of the new iPhone is quite aggressive,” one source told the WSJ. “It told us to prepare to help the company meet its goal of 25 million units by the end of the year. The initial production volume will be a few million units…we were told to ship the components to assembler Hon Hai in August.”

[FONT=&quot]Nothing we haven’t heard before, of course, although it’s very interesting to note the description of “thinner and lighter”. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Source: Apple Preparing For New iPhone in Third Quarter - WSJ.com, via MacRumors[/FONT]

 

[burkemelvin77]

[FONT=&quot]It's look quite cool to see the phone. The news on iPhone 5 will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 is pretty awesome. Thanks for the post.[/FONT][FONT=&amp][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]