Apple Ups Sales Forecast To 21-Million iPhones In First Quarter of 2011


Apple is expecting to sell up to 21-million iPhones in the first three months of 2011, according to reports in Taiwan.

Chinese-language newspaper DigiTimes is quoting component suppliers as saying they've been told to increase their planned output. Apparently, Apple was planning to shift 19-million iPhones, but has now increased that estimate.

The total is said to include up to six-million phones that work on the CDMA mobile network system.  So far Apple has only produced GSM units, but it's widely expected the CDMA models will be for Verizon in the US and several operators in Asia.

It's thought the Verizon deal will happen in early 2011, breaking AT&T's monopoly on iPhone sales in the US.

(Via: DigiTimes)

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