Apple sells 47.8 million iPhone in recent months for 2012

apple unveiled its sales volume in both series smart phones "iPhone" or series tablet "iPad" in the last quarter of 2012 and ending at the end of December last year.

The company achieved a record level in the volume of sales in the quarter - which is the first in the current fiscal year - as compared to the same period of the last three months of 2011.

The American company explained that it has sold 47.8 million copies of the series smartphone "iPhone" an increase of 10.8 million copies for the same quarter in 2011, where Apple has sold only 37 million phones.

Apple sold in the fourth quarter also 22.9 million Tablet PC "iPad" compared with 15.4 million computers from the same series in the same quarter the year before.

The company's disclosure comes from the high volume of sales of phones iPhone days after the publication of the newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" report confirms that Apple reduced the requests of the components of the "iPhone 5" because of weak demand.

The increased sales volume series iPhone in the fourth quarter - after launching the iPhone 5 - compared to the third quarter of 2012, Apple sold in the period from July until the end of September to 26.9 million copies of the series smartphone, which indicates that many consumers wishing to renewed their wait the new Apple icon in order to resolve the purchase decision.

Furthermore, Apple has reference to the earnings per share in the fourth quarter of 2012 reached 13.81 U.S. dollars, after having reached the company's revenues in the quarter to about 54.8 billion dollars, and the average of the weekly income of 4.2 billion dollars compared with revenues $ 3.3 billion in the same quarter of 2011.

It is noteworthy that many of the news reports indicated an intention to Apple offering a number of smart devices soon remains notably iPhone 6 and iPhone Mini, noting some reports that the U.S. company began testing the next version of iPhone under the name iPhone 6 and explained other reports descent Apple to phone market low the iPhone Mini phone cost .