Verizon Wireless customers now have more good news for this year’s holiday season to look forward to. For according to reports, has bumped up its iPhone production plans, which include a Verizon iPhone that will be available by December.
Apple has asked apparently asked its supply and manufacturing partners to prepare for a production rate of 4 million iPhones a month by September, a 25% increase, says analysts who have been monitoring the production plans in Asia.
It has asked its manufacturing partner to plan on starting full-scale production of a CDMA version of the iPhone to be available for Verizon Wireless customers possibly as soon as early November, indicating once again that Apple intends to deliver on a long-awaited Verizon iPhone.
With Verizon already announcing plans to embrace Apple’s competitor Google and Android OS-based smartphones, the move may be an attempt by Apple to prevent the two companies from forging closer ties.
Earlier this month Verizon’s chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said that the two were even partnering to develop and carry a rival to Apple’s iPad.
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