Apple is expected to reveal its new iPhone 6 series in the month of August. It is one month earlier than expected. This news was reported by a Taiwanese media on Friday.
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New iPhone 6 will come in two variants. The first variant will have a screen size of 4.7, like the previous iPhone series. The report also claimed that Apple had acquired parts from various Taiwanese suppliers such as wafer maker Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co and Largan Precision, a leading maker of lenses used in mobile phones, for the handset expected to be called iPhone 6.
Apple’s new iPhone is expected to hit the markets during mid-August according to the reports but there is no details about which markets would receive the phone first.
According to the mass-circulation national newspaper, Foxconn and Pegatron, the two Taiwanese electronic contract makers have been notified by Apple to start their assembly lines for the new handsets which are likely to come around late June. The source also claims that Eighty million units of the new iPhone 6 will be designed prior to the launch event.
The second variant of iPhone 6 will be a phablet device as it will have screen size of 5.5-inch. Apple is trying to battle against rivals like Samsung by introducing this phablet into the market. Also it is believed that screen size is now the primary competition stream for Apple and that’s the reason they are launching a phablet version with a bigger screen size of 5.5-inch. The phablet version of iPhone 6 will come in markets immediately after the 4.7-inch version. It is expected to be available around September or later.
It is expected that the Samsung’s Note series is going to receive tough competition.
Morover, iPhone 6 will also have slimmer and lighter design. It will also have faster A8 Processor which will boost the phone’s performance. The A7 processor was already acclaimed by many top reviewers and there won’t be any surprises if the A8 processor will boost it’s speed by huge extent.
It will also have a better camera for more crisp images. Rumors say that the phablet version will take more time to enter the markets as they have issues with battery life.
iPhone 6 is likely to launch with iOS 8 pre-installed. Its design is expected to be adapted from its successor iPhone 5c and it will also be available in various colors. iPhone 6 might be as slim as 7mm. But to achieve that they would have to redesign other modules as well.Apple’s new smartwatch named iWatch is also expected to work along their new iPhone 6.
Michael Turner
