iPhone 4 Will be with Walmart as of Launch Day Too

Making sure that prospective buyers can obtain the latest smartphone device from Apple on its 24th of June launch day, the iPhone 4 will apparently be available from 1500 Walmart stores as well.

According to an article over on i4u, this will be the first time that Walmart has offered a new iPhone on its launch day and the much hyped iPhone 4 will therefore be available in 1500 Walmart stores across the US on the 24th of June 2010.

Apparently according to an email i4u received from Walmart’s PR they are trying to connect the iPhone 4 with Farther’s Day deals, although as the iPhone 4 launch day is a little later than Father’s day I’m not too sure how a connection is made.

Anyway no doubt with the new iPhone 4 now also being available as of launch day from Walmart as well it should alleviate too many rather long queues forming outside Apple stores, or will it, maybe the demand for the new iPhone 4 will outstrip demand for the iPhone 3GS and we’ll see scenes of huge queues forming before launch day.

iPhone 4 Shortage Not Likely at 3 Million Units a Month

With the iPhone 4 release day approaching obviously one concern is whether Apple will have enough

iPhone 4 units to keep up with the huge demand that is expected, but the word is Apple has already taken steps to make sure that doesn’t happen.

According to an article over on Intomobile by Marc Flores, a report over on Apple Insider, Robert Lai, the chairman of Asia Optical which ships VGA camera lenses like the one found in the iPhone 4 front-facing camera, says they have been shipping as many as three million a month to Apple.

So taking this into consideration, the word is that Apple is expecting to ship roughly 9 million iPhone 4 handsets during their 4th fiscal quarter ending September, or roughly 3 million iPhone 4 units a month.

So if the camera lens shipments are anything to go by there shouldn’t be a problem with the iPhone 4 stock running dry on release day should there.