Mass production of Apple iPhone phablet to start in July?

A report published on Tuesday, states that mass-production of the phablet sized Apple iPhone will start next month. According to a pair of anonymous sources, the 4.7 inch Apple iPhone 6 will be shipped to retailers in September. These sources say that there is a chance that the 5.5 inch version of the device, could be shipped to retailers at the same time. Most rumors have the phablet sized model coming to market a month after the  4.7 inch unit arrives.

The size of the screen on the original version of the Apple iPhone was 3.5 inches, which didn't change until Apple went to 4 inches on the Apple iPhone 5. The screens on both of the models released last year, the Apple iPhone 5s and Apple iPhone 5c, were 4 inches in size.

Apple feels the pressure to raise the size of the iPhone screen after Android manufacturers have raised their screen size to the point where a 5 inch display is considered normal. In China, 40% of Android phones purchased in 2014 had screen sizes exceeding 5 inches. With the iPhone producing $91 billion in sales last year, it is Apple's number one product, which means that the company is under pressure from flagship Android models that come with screens in the 5 inch to 5.5 inch range.

source: Bloomberg