iPHONE 5 TO SPUR RECORD Q4 APPLE PHONE SHIPMENTS

摘要

The iPhone 5 will help to drive Apple's smartphone shipments in 2012 to 149 million units, up 60% from 93 million in 2011, according to IHS iSuppli. Most of the iPhone 5 sales bump will be seen in the final quarter, when it will combine with normal seasonality to yield what IHS predicts will be Apple's biggest quarter ever for iPhone sales. "[The] iPhone 5 announcement comes as a significant departure from previous models," says Daniel Gleeson, mobile analyst for IHS. "The addition of a new, larger screen is a fundamental change in product design.