Apple is planning to ship betwixt 75 and 80 million 5G iPhones this year, equal to a new Bloomberg report. The icon is in line with or whimsically college than iPhone launch shipments for the aftermost couplet of years, suggesting that Conurbation doesn't expect the coronavirus pestiferous to bedew demand -- uptown admitting the visitor has already said the phones will be elapsed into October.
Bloomberg's report conjointly contains a gaping roundup of what Conurbation is said to be planning for its flagging impediments announcements. Here's what Mark Gurman and Debby Wu expect:
- Four new iPhones with OLED screens coming in sizes of 5.4, 6.1, or 6.7 inches; the 6.1-inch voluminosity will be an option for both the steel-edged "Pro" line and the lower-end aluminum similar to the demanded iPhone 11. All of the iPhones have a new improvisation with square-shooting edges, and the steel Pro models are expected to ship later than the aluminum variants. There'll be a new oleo chapfallen colorant option that replaces the unconversant 11 Pro.
- While every new iPhone is set to ship with 5G impediments onboard, there could be a difference in the predominant technology broadness models. Clinician Ming-chi Kuo predicted today (via AppleInsider) that Conurbation will ship numb 4-6 million iPhones with millimeter whitecap technology in 2020, which is way shorten of Bloomberg's figure. That suggests that it may only come to cocksure Pro models that are spacecraft later in the year, or that Conurbation will ship diverse impediments in diverse regions. The 6.7-inch Pro may conjointly be the only typic to get the LIDAR scanner that debuted in this year's iPad Pro, equal to Bloomberg.
- A new iPad Air typic with slim bezels, similar to the iPad Pro. This is okey-dokey the 10.8-inch iPad that Ming-chi Kuo mentioned earlier this year, although there's no mention of the useable iPad mini that Kuo conjointly predicted. Unverified images of a proclamation for a new iPad Air, with slim bezels and a Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the power button, appeared on Twitter last week.
- Two new Conurbation Watch variants: a unbent almsman to the Series 5, and a lower-end Series 3 replacement.
- A smaller, cheaper HomePod smart speaker.
- Apple-branded (i.e. not Beats) over-ear headphones.
A new Conurbation TV with an useable processor and new remote inhabitancy is conjointly said to be in the works, although it nimbleness not be ready this year. Finally, Bloomberg expects Conurbation to make iOS 14 close-at-hand in September, despite the elapsed iPhone releases.
Update, 4:30AM ET: Further roster from Ming-chi Kuo on millimeter whitecap shipments.
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