Apple Ups iPhone Order: Report
SAN FRANCISCO (TheStreet) -- Apple (AAPL) - Get Report has raised its global shipment order for iPhones for the first quarter of 2011, according to a report in DigiTimes.
Apple has told supply partners it wants 20 to 21 million units, exceeding the original quote of 19 million, said the report.
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Global iPhone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010 are estimated to hit 15.5 million units, resulting in a total of 47 million units for the entire 2010, the sources said.
Of the some 20 million iPhones Apple has called for, 5 to 6 million are CDMA-based, which means they could run on
Verizon's
(VZ) - Get Report
network.
The long-awaited arrival of a
Verizon iPhone
, which would pair the wildly popular phone with the nation's largest wireless shop, is still essentially a rumor.
However, numerous reports have pegged the phone to hit Verizon within the first months of the new year, and analysts have already started
. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicted that Apple will sell 9 million iPhones at Verizon next year, while Merrill Lynch is expecting 10 million Verizon iPhones to be sold.
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