Sharp confirming the shipment of panels for the iPhone 5

Takashi Okuda, president of Sharp, yesterday confirmed to Reuters that his company will start sending the screens for the Apple iPhone 5 this month. This is the first time a major supplier of Apple confirms officially unreleased product, but without giving exact date. The panels are 4 inches from corner to corner, a 30% larger than the current iPhone.

Reuters reports:

"" Shipments will begin in August, "said Sharp's new president, Takashi Okuda, in a press conference on Thursday that was then in Tokyo, where the company published its latest quarterly results."

The report notes that Sharp will provide In-Cell panels , coinciding with previous reports:

"The screens of the iPhone will be thinner than previous models by using In-Cell panels. The new technology incorporates touch sensors inside the liquid crystal display, eliminating a layer of the touch screen of the iPhone today. "

In addition to Sharp, the other two suppliers of the panels are LG Display and Japan, according to the report. The Reuters article also point to October as the release date of iPhone 5 :

"Sharp said it will begin sending screens for the new Apple iPhone expected to be released in October, before the holiday shopping season."

This information contradicts the mainstream media as Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and others who say that Apple will introduce the iPhone 5 on September 12 and will launch on September 21.

This confirmation by the president of Sharp's actually quite surprising, considering that Tim Cook told the conference that Apple had doubled D10 the security effort that there were no leaks of information about the company's future products. Clearly that was not enough.

Yesterday, another report from DisplaySearch analyst estimated that the production of panels for the mini iPad would begin this month.

Analysts have already warned as speculation about upcoming products could impair the performance of Apple in the last quarter. The company eventually sold 26 million iPhones during the fourth quarter, 3 million less than expected by Wall Street investors.

Apple executives told investors on a conference call that the slowdown in sales was due to rumors about the next iPhone, as many customers prefer to wait to buy the iPhone 5.

As mentioned, it is surprising that the president of Sharp has released a sensitive part of the information. Could it be that Apple has relaxed the subject of leaks from who is not Steve Jobs?

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