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Apple raises iPhone shipments to about 21 million for first quarter of 2011, report says

Apple has requested an increased order from its iPhone suppliers, bumping global shipment targets for the hugely popular device from 19 million units to between 20 million and 21 million units for the first-quarter of 2011, according to a report from the DigiTimes.

About 5 to 6 million of those iPhones will be capable of operating on CDMA mobile networks, which is a 3G standard that Verizon uses, the DigiTimes said, attributing its information to anonymous sources at Apple’s Taiwan-based suppliers Foxconn and Pegatron.

Currently, AT&T is the exclusive carrier of the iPhone in North America, but rumors of a Verizon iPhone have been rampant on the Internet as far back as 2007.

Verizon began selling Apple’s iPad tablet computer in October, which only added to the hype of a possible AT&T-free iPhone.

The unnamed sources told the DigiTimes that the CDMA iPhones were set to launch in markets in North America and the Asia Pacific region during the first three months of next year.

Apple shipped about 15.5 million iPhones in the fourth quarter of this year and about 47 million iPhones total, according to the DigiTimes.

[Thanks: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com]

Apple, Steve Jobs hit new heights in 2010

Apple dethroned Microsoft as the world’s most valuable technology company in 2010 as its co-founder Steve Jobs soared to new heights with the touchscreen iPad tablet computer and the latest iPhone.

Britain’s Financial Times last week named Jobs its “Person of the Year” and even US President Barack Obama joined in the plaudits to the 55-year-old chief executive of the Cupertino, California-based gadget-maker.

Jobs’ appearance on a San Francisco stage in January to unveil the iPad capped what the FT called “the most remarkable comeback in modern business history.”

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