New iPhone to arrive early

Apple’s iPhone 6 might be unveiled sooner than we all thought, a new report is saying this weekend.

Apple has decided to roll out their new model, a 4.7 inches iPhone 6 a month earlier than the normal schedule said the Taiwanese Economic Daily News reported on Friday.  It comes after larger screen phones, already released by HTC and Samsung have proved a boom in sales is available if they don’t miss the boat.  But if you want the bigger phone, being rumoured as a 5.5 inch “phablet” you might have to wait until September for the scheduled release.

French Website, Nowhere Else, has teamed up with designer Martin Hajek to build these concepts renders of the new iPhone.

The report said Taiwanese electronics contract makers including Foxconn and Pegatron have been notified by Apple to start their assembly lines for the new handsets likely around late June.

“U.S.-based Apple has decided to roll out the 4.7-inch screen version of the new model in August, a month early, as recent sales have been affected by the launch of bigger-screen phones from rivals such as South Korean giant Samsung and Taiwan’s HTC”, the report said.

The report also said that “a high-end variant of the iPhone 6 with a 5.5 or 5.6-inch screen will still be unveiled in September as previously planned”.

Apple’s current screen size is just 4 inches, which is increasingly a drawback when compared to Samsung and HTC phones.

In the report statements said that Apple expects more than 90 percent of the shipments will be for the 4.7-inch model which seems odd considering how appealing a super-large screen phone must seem to people at the moment.  CNET speculated today that this is because the 5.5 inch model may feature their new Sapphire glass technology, which is still  either high cost or in short supply.

“That coveted material has been used very sparingly — as a cover for the fingerprint scanner, for example — in the iPhone 5S,” said a CNET report.