As the great delivery men of this country rush the iPhone 5 to those who pre-ordered, more rumors of the upcoming iPad mini are dropping in. According to Taiwan paper Economic Daily News, Apple has decreased its reliance on the (in?)famous Foxconn for iPad mini orders and has instead put the bulk of the load on Pegatron. Taiwan-based Pegatron is said to be managing up-to 50-60 percent of the iPad mini orders placed by Apple, doing away with Foxconn as the sole iPad manufacturer.
The iPad mini is expected to be announced at an upcoming October media event. We previously reported the 7-inch tablet will look like a larger iPod touch and have smaller bezels.
Apple’s reliance on Foxconn isn’t gone by a long shot, however. In May a report surfaced saying that Foxconn is investing $210 million in an Apple manufacturing line that will be based in Huai’an city, China. Also as we saw over the weekend, many of our reader’s iPhone 5s have begun shipping directly from Foxconn. In its report, EDT further adds that at least 53 million iPhone 5s will be shipped this year and presumably, Foxconn is hard at work on most of those. [Economic Daily Times via Engadget]
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