New report details Apple’s plan for iPhones (and other gadgets) this year

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  The iPhone 11 Pro Max, 2019's highest-cost iPhone. [credit: Samuel Axon ]

A new report from Bloomberg's Debby Wu and Mark Gurman says that Apple tasked its suppliers with building "at least 75 million" 5G iPhones. That's in the ballpark of what was produced last year, so Apple is expecting strong sales despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

More interesting for our purposes here, though, are tidbits about what those iPhones-and other Apple products planned for release this year-look like.

Citing people familiar with the situation, the Bloomberg story claims that Apple has a busy holiday season ahead of it. The sources say that Apple plans to launch four 5G iPhone models, a new iPad Air, two new Apple Watch models, over-ear headphones, and a new HomePod speaker. They also allude to a modestly updated Apple TV 4K and the long-rumored AirTags product, but the story did not claim that those are coming this year.

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