4.5 million iPhone 4Gs in 24 days?

And 24 million by the end of 2010, according to a new report out of Taiwan

Source: http://www.begeek.fr

DigiTimes, a Taipei-based tech daily with a rich supply of anonymous tipsters among Apple's (AAPL) Pacific Rim suppliers, issued a detailed report Monday about the next generation iPhone that actually quotes a source by name.

This is presumably the same fourth-generation iPhone -- or one much like it -- that was left in a Redwood City bar four weeks ago.

Here, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, DigiTimes senior analyst, is what Taiwanese component makers are saying about it:

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