Apple has officially shown that the new iPhone 12 will be delayed “a few weeks.”
Luca Maestri, Apple’s leading monetary director, showed the news in an effects call and said, “As you know, last year we started promoting new iPhones by the end of September. This year, we expect the offer to be available. A few weeks later.”
The release date of the new iPhone, unofficially scheduled for September, as usual, would have been threatened due to the broad and diverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of course, Apple will need its newest flagship iPhone at the points of sale long before the holidays, so we can assume that the iPhone 12 will arrive now in October, or November as the newest.
Earlier this week, Qualcomm’s leading monetary director Akash Palkhiwala told investors that the chipmaker’s profits could be affected by “a partial effect on the delay in launching a global flagship 5G phone.” Now we can combine two and two and assume it’s the iPhone 12.
The new iPhone 12 is expected to be Apple’s first 5G phone and will feature the industry-leading Qualcomm 5G modem that has already given the impression on Samsung’s flagship smartphones.
A delay of iPhone 12 is not unexpected. The CEO of Broadcom, a leading supplier of spare parts for iPhone, had in the past told analysts about a “significant delay in the product cycle” in a “major North American cell phone customer,” believed to be Apple.
The tech giant is about to launch several iPhone 12s, all with 5G capability. They come with the iPhone 12 (which would have a 5.4-inch OLED display), the iPhone 12 Pro (it would have a 6.1-inch OLED display) and the iPhone 12 Max (with a imaginable 6.7-inch OLED display).
This is shaping up as a busy moment for phone launches, after the OnePlus North and the imminent arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and the Google Pixel 4a.
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