Apple increases iPhone production

Vendor giant has revised order numbers upwards by 12 to 13 per cent for the second half of the year, report claims

Apple has ramped up its total order numbers for its latest iPhones, according to some market sources.

News site Digitimes Telecom claimed that the order volume for iPhones – a mix of iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 CDMA and iPhone 5 – has gone up by 12 to 13 per cent for H2 2011, from 50 million units to more than 56 million units.

iPhone 5 will account for 25.5 million to 26 million of those units.

The site claims that iPhone 5 orders for Q3 2011 have been lowered from seven million units to between 5.5 million and six million units, but Q4 orders have shot up from 14 million to more than 20 million units.

Total orders for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4 CDMA stand at 20 million units for Q3, but have been reduced to eight million units in Q4.

Speculation is mounting in the industry that Apple will launch its latest smartphone and iPod on 7 September.