Apple ups iPhone order in Q1 2011 to 21 million units according to report

By on Dec 27, 2010 at 12:59 PM
mobile December 27, 2010

Apple has increased its first quarter 2011 manufacturing orders for its iPhone handset, DigiTimes reports. Apple had initially placed orders for 19 million iPhones with manufacturing partners Foxconn and Pegatron Technology, and now those orders have been upped to as many as 21 million units.

The first-quarter shipment goal for WCDMA iPhones has been adjusted from 13 million units to 14-15 million units, the sources said. The shipment goal for CDMA iPhones, which will be launched in North America and Asia Pacific in the first quarter, is set at 5-6 million units, the sources added.

First quarter shipment totals of 21 million would represent a substantial increase over Apple’s current pace. DigiTimes’ source notes that year-end iPhone shipments in 2010 will total 47 million units, 15.5 million of which will have shipped in the fourth quarter.

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  • Eman163

    1st!

  • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

    Interesting.

  • booboolala2000

    How many bumpers will there be now? Don’t waste your time VZW people. You have waited this long already. Hold out for a larger screen and no/less signal issues. Its only six more months, less if you believe rumors. And no LTE? Sticking with Android myself, but if you want an iPhone wait six more months for the good stuff.

    • Norm

      Yeah, no LTE? Give me a break. DROID has had LTE for a year now. The iphone is so far behind. Without LTE your phone is obsolete. Yeah I get it, LTE is only available in 30 odd major cities and 3G is just snail’s pace slow, but YOU NEED 4G! VZW is doing a great job explaining to our customers via commercials that if you don’t have 4G that you are a complete fagg. My prototype DROID 4G is proof.

      • Norm

        Correction. I have the DROID 4G PRO prototype.

      • Petey_pablo

        he rere driod pro isnt 4g

    • Taos

      I completely agree. The current iPhone4 as we all know it is just terrible with signal strength. I just traded in my iPhone 3GS for a week 46 build at Radio Shack. I am SO SORRY I did that. My 3GS had signal everywhere (almost), most notably in my home office. My new iPhone 4 has 1 bar or no service everywhere (almost). I have yet to see 5 bars on my iPhone4.

      I am very seriously considering either a windows 7 phone, an Android phone, or maybe the Nokia N8.

      If anyone can shed some input please do.

      Thanks

  • Eric

    Yeah, I don’t see how with all of the LTE announcements that Apple releases a CDMA only iPhone in 2011.

    • Anonymous

      I agree with your thought. However, Apple also released an EDGE iPhone into a world of 3G connectivity. Something to think about.

  • Anonymous

    That is silly, the iPhone is out of business now because of all the Android devices that are selling. Or, at least that is what people try to make everyone believe.

    Long lines soon to be forming at Verizon stores around the country. No fear Android users, you will be able to buy $75 Android phones soon enough. Plus all the BOGO deals coming your way.

    Apple won’t be discounting the iPhone or allowing the BOGO deals, why? Well, people are still going to want the device, therefor they don’t have to discount it.

    • Norm

      No one wants to easily sync music, have a huge app store with some form of screening process, or stable consistent OS improvements. The masses have spoken..and said they want DROID. We want to search through folders upon folders for our music and media, search through 20-30 apps that do the same thing with variable quality, and most of all we enjoy having several versions of our OS with manufacture and carrier branded enhancements. Maybe we can’t use some newer apps for 6-12 months because we are still suck on DROID OS 2.1, but at least it’s open source. Rooting is so easy and user friendly. There are plenty of YouTube tutorials available by 12-16 year obese kids with the latest DROID and some hack for an unstable version of the newest DROID OS flavor. Give me freedom anyday. Quality is highly overrated. DROID DOES!

      • Anonymous

        Yes Norm, we want choice. I want to be able to use my phone without being tied to itunes. I want to be able to have a replaceable battery. I want a 4.3″ screen. I bought a smartphone for a reason. It’s not supposed to be dumbed down like the iphone. I like having access to my system. Huge app store? The Android Market has over 100,000 apps. Funny, that was considered huge not too long ago when apple was at that number. With the 300,000 they have, there are many crap apps and duplicates. If people want the latest OS, they know which phones to buy, and which ones to avoid. With choice, comes freedom. I have an unrooted Evo, and it puts the iphone to shame. Not everybody wants to be an iclone.

      • Norm

        Don’t be silly. No one know whats phone to buy. Just tech blog readers that know to avoid Samsung.

      • anonymous

        You’re right Norm, the majority of smartphones users like different versions of OS which the Iphone doesn’t have and all smartphone users want more complex stuff to work their phones and have the option to buy another every month when the latest great android phone comes out, and wow all kinds of android phones to choose from. Apple only comes out with an iphone once a year, that sucks. I never believe any article that states Apple is making billions anyway. I’m sure Apple stores will start closing and this article is totally untrue, or a typo of some sort. I’m sure it meant to say 21 million more Droids. Freedom means a lot more than having a smooth OS anyday. Yes, Droid Does!

    • Ecuteent

      you are rigth plus all those iphones are made by china people that make 20 cents an hour.

  • anonymous

    Doesn’t verizon use cdma2000? Sprint and T-mobile are wcdma

    • anonymous

      Correction, Tmobile and att use wcdma.

      • Petey

        But Isn’t AT&T using WCDMA while T-Mobile using AWS or are they the same thing lol? kinda confusing.

      • Anonymous

        Tmo uses WCDMA standard on AWS bands…. AWS is just an abbreviation for 1700mhz and 2100mhz wireless spectrum. WCDMA is a different form of CDMA than what a “CDMA carrier” uses, it only works with GSM and allows 3G.

      • Petey

        @Celz: thanks for the explanation! (sorry, couldn’t replied to your post… there isn’t that option).

    • Tee

      Yes they do use CDMA2000 as opposed to WCDMA… you gave up reading 1 sentence premature ;-)

      “WCDMA iPhones has been adjusted from 13 million units to 14-15 million units, the sources said. The shipment goal for CDMA iPhones, which will be launched in North America and Asia Pacific in the first quarter, is set at 5-6 million units”

  • Wildwillywildwilly

    Apple is about 2 years too late to the multi-carrier party in the US. Coming from someone who can’t stand verizon, their bullsh*t pricing, their buls*t philosophy, and their car salesman mentality they have in corporate loctions…. Apple should have had a phone their in 2007.

    Why can’t anyone see that it’s the beginning og the end for apple.

    • Michael Scrip

      Apple knows a thing or two about supply and demand… after having sold 260,000,000 iPods over the last 9 years. Apple products have never sat on the shelf in some warehouse for longer than a week.

      People said it was the “beginning of the end for Apple” the other day when they dropped the price of refurb iPhones. And now they are planning on selling more iPhones than they had originally thought.

      If Apple is increasing their order of new iPhones to 21 million units for the first quarter of 2011… they obviously know they will sell them. That’s 233,000 iPhones a day for the quarter. And no Apple products go unsold.

      And why is it too late for multi-carriers in the US?

      Apple didn’t waste any time getting the iPhone on five carriers in the UK as soon as the two-year exclusivity with O2 was up. Multi-carriers in the US… their home country… is guaranteed.

      Apple will be selling cell phones for the rest of our lives… they aren’t going out of business anytime soon.

      Yeah… Android and Nokia still mop the floor with Apple in sales…. but Apple makes far more money. They aren’t boarding up the windows at the Cupertino headquarters.

  • Bringit

    Will those 21 million units be OPEN? Like Droid OPEN? It’s all about Open. Like a window. Who needs a screen for bugs etc. Let it all flow in. Open.

  • angry_man

    just release the fucking thing already. christ! rumor after rumor is annoying!

  • Max

    Welp, let’s hear it you AT&T Apple morons. You are SOOOO desperate to keep the iphone exclusive. Why? So you don’t lose all 2 of your friends to Verizon? Oh boo hoo. You’re stuck in your new 2 year agreement. So stop cheaping out and pay the $325 and switch with your friends. What, are you afraid of losing all those dropped calls you enjoyed in downtown Chicago with 20000000 cell towers around you?

  • ajl87

    Verizon is CDMA2000.. so ya.

  • Petey

    Rumors… like someone mentioned, just release the damn thing already!

    hmm but again if they boosting the number of products… could that mean that AT&T deals is ending and it’s available with all carrier in the US? Unless they boosting the numbers of products and these are the new upcoming iphone?… hmm

  • kyweezy

    Wait! Verizon is getting an iPhone?

    • Bringit

      No – the real news is the Droid is OPEN! Open.

  • http://phonecan.com Epik

    ALL HAIL PEGATRON!

  • Goofan (aka Apple Hater)

    I mean, I get so upset when I see Apple doing this. They know they won’t sell a phone now that Android is in so many flavors, networks, sizes, versions of the OS! So they are trying to make those numbers up so one of the thousands of asian manufacturers building android phones/tablets can buy them! I can’t wait until one of those millions of chinese or taiwanese manufacturers buys apple outright and fire the worst CEO EVER!

  • Dingle Berry

    I hate to tell you people, but its not Verizon getting the iPhone, its Sprint.

    • serpentor

      I’m on Sprint and I’d rather not have iPhone users clogging up our network. I know Tmo users feel the same way.

  • Tom

    Ahhhhh a CDMA iPhone. Guess it will be stuck on that network for a while being Att bought up the largest LTE spectrum in the US…

  • http://twitter.com/Latheistic BL

    …and it will still be an inferior phone.

  • JRoadZ

    So (according to Wikipedia’s definition of WCDMA), Japan’s NTT DoCoMo expects (rumoredly) to sell 3x more iPhone’s than CDMA US carrier, Verizon??

  • JRoadZ

    Oh and I hope Verizon maintains their 1 year contract option by paying +$70 more for the hardware, $36 activation fee (for a new customer), and not having a measly upgrade credit of $50 (which was a $100 NEWE2 credit when I worked Retail Sales for VZW circa 2001-2006).

    I want the option of upgrading ever 10 months, not 22 just I case this iPhone on VZW is SANS LTE and an LTE one comes out in 2Q11…no questions asked, no bitching/whining/pleading your case to the manager fr why you signed the 2 year contract.

    I’m still with my BlackBerry Storm 9530 I won in that “money booth” in Tmes Square 11/2008 a few weeks prior to it’s official launch. Nothing has tickled my fancy and 2+ years has to be a record for me not upgrading my device…in anticipation for this iPhone!!!!!!!!!!

  • keymaker

    There’s no way Apple is going to built a LTE model to pleased people in just 30 ramdon cities in a huge ass country. A LTE (4G) phone won’t make sense until somewhere in 2012. Better coverage and better chips that consume less power by then. 4G right now is just a selling point, nothing more.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe T-Mobile is getting the iPhone? Or Maybe they expect to sell more white units?

  • Anonymous

    Wans’t LINUX supposed to “kill” windows? Let’s realize there is SOME strategy here.

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