A Taiwan-based company named Pegatron that manufactures the Apple products, has received orders for 15 millions iPhone 5 from Apple, reports Digitimes. According to sources, these 15 million smartphones will be shipping in September 2011.
According to some rumors, iPhone 5 that will not be a major upgrade from its predecessor, is going to have an iPad 2 like back and will be smaller and lighter than all the previous versions of iPhone.
Below is excerpt from Digitimes that is providing all the details about iPhone 5 shipment:
The sources pointed out that as the iPhone 5, which does not seem to have any major update from iPhone 4, is already set for shipment in September, they are already started supplying components to Pegatron with Pegatron’s plants in Shanghai, China also recently started hiring for manpower.
According to the above section of the report, the factories in China has already started hiring workers who will be controlling the production of iPhone 5. To remind you, iPhone 5 will sport an 8 megapixel camera(which will not be from Sony), a dual core processor, and a 4 inch touch-screen.