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iPhone 4G Component & Volume details…

Foxconn will ship 4.5 million [iPhone 4G's] in the first half [of 2010] and 19.5 million units for the rest of [the year]. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 4G on June 7, 2010 during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

Let’s hope they can support those volumes. Or we might revisit the current iPad nightmare. In fact we still might, even with those initial production volumes. This new iPhone is going to be popular. Even if we get no more surprises about it.

The new device will adopt IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution…

It’s a shame that it doesn’t look like we’ll get a true 720p display with a 1024 x 768 resolution, like the iPad. But then I doubt anyone can make a screen in the volumes, or at the price that Apple wants to pay, at that resolution. Yields would also be an issue. I’ve already discussed my views on screen resolution, and what I was hoping for. But what we are probably getting is more in line with what we should realistically expect from Apple.

By incorporating FFS technology, which enables a wider viewing angle and clearer visual quality under in sunlight, Apple is aiming to improve the handset’s e-book reader features and promote its iBooks Store.

I love my iPhone 1st Gen. as an eBook reader, and still use it as such. This is going to be even better.

The iPhone 4G will run on the Arm Cortex A8 processor and a 512MB memory module from Samsung Electronics, doubling the memory capacity seen in the iPhone 3GS to take advantage of the multi-tasking capability of the iPhone 4.0 platform.

512MB is sorely needed. At 256MB the iPad already has problems with multiple tabs open in Mobile Safari, for example.

To solve battery life issues, the new iPhone’s panel is 33% thinner than in previous iPhone versions to permit more space for larger battery modules…

From DigiTimes.

Apple is apparently doubling up on suppliers for all of these components. Panels coming from LG Display and Prime View International and Batteries from Simplo Technology and Dynapack International Technology.

Perhaps they are hoping to head off supply chain issues they got bitten by with the iPad.

Foxconn are slapping it all together, as usual.