Apple plans to release three new models of iPhone this year – WSJ

Plans Apple to present three new models of iPhone this fall, including the successor to XR, despite the low sales of their latest smartphones.

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According to the newspaper, l & # 39, iPhone flagship will be equipped with a triple main camera. The successor of the budget iPhone will have two cameras instead of one.

The company could also completely abandon the LCD to 2020, switching to the OLED line at the end of next year (the LCD is less sophisticated than the OLED). The development of iPhone models, which will be introduced in 2019, is almost complete, the 2020 smartphones are at the concept stage, writes WSJ.

As written Vedomosti, formerly Nikkei Asian Review, with sources close to the situation, that Apple in the first quarter of 2019 will reduce by 10% the production of iPhone models, presented at autumn 2018. One of the sources said that in December 2018, Apple had asked manufacturers to lower the release of the new iPhone, XS Max, XS and XR, for the second time in two months . "For each supplier, production is reduced in different ways, and that depends on the range of products they provide," he said.

In early January, Apple, for the first time in 16 years, revised down its revenue forecast, from 89 to 93 billion dollars to 84 billion dollars. After that, the price of his shares fell by more than 9%. In total, the shares of the company decreased by one third in the space of three months.

The company linked this phenomenon to the slowdown in iPhone sales in the context of the economic slowdown in China and the "growing tension in trade" between Beijing and Washington.

On Jan. 11, Reuters reported several Chinese electronics retailers, including Suning and JD.com, owned by Alibaba, have dropped prices on their iPhone. A $ 118 discount on the iPhone XR 64GB may indicate that Apple expects low sales of smartphones in China not only during the end-of-year holidays, but also for the entire quarter said the agency.