Ever since the iPhone was launched, there have been rumors that Apple will launch a cheaper iPhone. The chatter has gotten a little louder this year.
Last week, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg also reported that Apple was indeed working on a cheaper iPhone, which has added more credibility to these rumors.
Apple’s rumored entry-level iPhone
reportedly may adopt plastic for its chassis instead of reinforced glass
or unibody metal as in the company’s standard iPhone models, to save
cost, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
The rumor in the supply chain is that the
inexpensive iPhone chassis supplier will reportedly be a US-based
electronic manufacturing service (EMS) provider.
The report also notes that according to some rumors, Apple may use a
chassis mixed with plastic and metal, with the internal metal parts
being able to be seen from outside through special design. DigiTimes
reports that the components for the cheaper iPhone are currently going
through validation and the final product could be launched in the second
part of 2013.Currently the cheapest iPhone is the iPhone 4, a phone two generations old, which is available for $450 without any contract. According to reports, the rumored cheaper iPhone will reportedly retail for $99 to $149 without a contract.
Apple has previously used a plastic chassis for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.
[DigiTimes via MacRumors]
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