More iPhone 3G Production

Apple Making More iPhones

Now that the iPhone 3G is available in 45 countries, in the face of shortages already in the first 20 countries of its roll-out, Apple is doing all it can to keep ahead of demand by making new iPhone 3G devices as fast as it can.

According to the August 23 edition of Business Week, Apple intends to build nearly 50 million more iPhone 3G handsets within the next 12 months, with an approximate 150,000 new devices being built each day.

Surprisingly, Apple has also stated that of that nearly 50 million projected new devices, it only aims to build 10 million in the 2008 calendar year. Whether or not that will be enough to keep up with demand, particularly with Best Buy stores now carrying the device, and especially approaching the Christmas holidays, is the subject of much speculation.

As evidence of the sweeping demand for the iPhone 3G, the U.S. isn’t the only nation experiencing sell-outs of the device since its July launch; T-Mobile, the exclusive carrier of the iPhone 3G in Germany, announced selling out of the device in many stores in that country too.