iPhone 5S Trial Production Starts in December

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On November 12, 2012

The iPhone 5 has yet to be available globally but the news of its replacement is already around. We aren’t talking about the iPhone 6 but rather an iPhone 5S instead. DigiTimes reported that according to the China based Commercial Times, the trial production for the next generation iPhone is expected to start some time in December. In fact, this may also mean that the announcement for the iPhone 5S will possibly be earlier as compared with the ones before.

Based on this, it seems that it may be possible that the first trial batch will be around 50,000 – 100,000 and volume production will take place later in the first quarter of 2013. With this being said and done, the iPhone 5S will be a minor upgrade to the iPhone 5 before being replaced with the iPhone 6 possibly in 2014.

In other news, an analyst at Sterne Agee mentioned that it is possible for Apple to receive up to $8 for every Android device that HTC sells. This is based on conversations with industry sources. This also means that it will generate as much as $280 million for Apple as HTC sells roughly 35 million Android devices annually.