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The strange math of Apple’s alleged massive iPhone 5 order cuts

The Sunday evening Wall Street Journal article claiming that Apple (AAPL) had cut its iPhone 5 display orders drastically for the March quarter made quite a splash. The way WSJ wrote its piece seemed to support the original Nikkei claim about Apple cutting its iPhone 5 display orders in half from the originally planned order of 65 million units. This would be a massive adjustment.

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iPhone 5 Launch In China Could Boost Apple's Holiday Quarter

In line with Apple’s plans to make this year’s iPhone launch its fastest roll-out ever, Chinese carriers are hopeful of launching the iPhone 5 in the country before the year-end. China Telecom Chairman Wang Xiaochu, in a brief interview with the Wall Street Journal Friday, said that the company plans to launch the device by early December or sooner. While China Unicom sounded less certain about …

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iPhone 5 production faces setback as screens delayed at Sharp

Demand for the next-generation iPhone is expected to be huge but the Wall Street Journal today says that Apple (AAPL) may not be able to keep up because Japanese manufacturer Sharp (SCHAY) has fallen behind schedule in producing iPhone screens. Unnamed sources told the Journal that Sharp has delayed production of the screens due to “manufacturing difficulties” and doesn’t yet have a timetable …

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It's Not Easy Predicting the End of the iPhone

Looking at the future of the iPhone, two articles, one from the Wall Street Journal's Anton Troianovski the other from The New York Times' Kevin J. O'Brien, out of the Barcelona's  Mobile World Congress reach some differing conclusions

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Sprint to sell iPhone 5 in October, report says

Apple’s iPhone, soon on Sprint?

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Rumor: iPhone 5 coming to Sprint in mid-October

The iPhone rumor mill is working over-time today. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the new iPhone 5 will be released in mid-October, and will be coming to Sprint. This would be amazing news for Sprint, and its 52 million subscribers, if it’s in fact true

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Apple: White iPhone 4 is Real (and Late)

Ten months after the iPhone 4 was announced, Apple is still reassuring us that the white model is on its way-possibly. After Bloomberg reported the white iPhone 4 should be on sale by the end of the month, Apple apparently reassured The Wall Street Journal that it’s coming this spring. But after ten months on sale, the iPhone 4 is reaching the end of the product cycle — so is there any point in …

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Verizon iPhone Available in Late January? [UPDATED ]

We’re only a couple of days away from the alleged Verizon iPhone’s introduction, if the Wall Street Journal’s sources are correct. Now the sources are saying that Verizon’s iPhone will be available by the end of January.

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