With WWDC just around the corner the iPhone rumor mill is in full swing. As if previous reports weren’t compelling enough, PCworld also reports that the iPhone 5 will be manufactured in the third quarter which will lead to a Q4 launch, citing its source, a financial analyst firm. FBR Capital Markets also said in a research note that the phone will include a 8MP camera and will use a single baseband chip for both GSM and CDMA, instead of two different phone versions for either channel. This may be the same GSM/CDMA chip that was spotted in the Verizon iPhone. They cited the information from their various industry contacts.
About 20 million iPhones will be produced in the third quarter, FBR said, with the iPhone 5 accounting for about 8 million of those; the rest will be iPhone 4 models. They further went on to say that the phone will use a 8-Megapixel CMOS sensor from Omnivision with Sony being a backup supplier. The phone is expected to sport the Dual-Core A5 processor introduced with the iPad 2.
Source: PCworld