LG is accelerating Nexus 4 production to 1 million per month?

[EbookReader]

October: 70,000
November: 90,000
December: 210,000
January: 20k per day or 600,000 per month?
February: ?




http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36552448&postcount=237


Ok, did additional poking, the results as follows:

Phone produced in Oct had serial#
10000 19th of Oct, AUS8BK
20000 USA
45000
60000 AUS
70123 ATMOBK (t-mobile)

Something like 70k devices produced in October

Nov
73000 1-th AO2UBK (O2 UK model)
75000 5-th AO2UBK
80000 5-th AO2UBK
85000 21-th (?) AUKGBK - strange,
90000 9-th AUS8BK
92000 10-th AUS8BK
95000 - USA
109000 - GER
110000 - UK
132000 - USA
138000 - USA
150000 - USA
160000 - AUSGBK

DEC
165000
264000
265133 14-th ADEUBK GERMANY
266133 15-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
267133 15-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
268133 15-th ADEUBK GERMANY
269133 15-th ADEUBK GERMANY
270133 15-th ASWSBK SWS Switzerland (looks like around 500 units)
271133 16-th AISRBK Israel
272133 15-th ADEUBK Germany
273133 15-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
274133 15-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
275133 15-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
277133 17-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
278133 17-th AHKGBK Hong Kong
279133 16-th AMYSBK
280123 17-th AMYSBK
289000 18-th UK
300123 19-th ADEGBK
305112 19-th ACA8BK
306000 28-Oct (?) AUSGBK, 211KPPB306000 "csn" is also very different from the "surroundings"
306001 8-Oct AUSGBK 211KPHG306001 esnoutgodate=null >>Never shipped?
306009 4-th Dec AUSGBK 212KPHG306009 esnoutgodate=null
306010 19-th AUS8BK 212KPYR306010 esnoutgodate=null
306020 19-th AUS8BK esnoutgodate=null
314001 19-th AFRGBK
314002 19-th ADEGBK
314050 19-th ADEGBK
314123 19-th ADEGBK
315112 19-th ADE8BK
319123 20-th ADEGBK
320123 20-th ADEGBK
321123 20-th AAUGBK
325112 20-th AUSGBK
330123 20-th AUSGBK
340123 21-th ACAGBK
350123 22-th AUS8BK
360123 26-th AUSGBK
365123 27-th AUS8BK
370123 27-th AUSGBK
374110 28-th AUSGBK

January 2013
375110 2-th AUS8BK
377110 3-th ASFRBK
381110 2-th ASFRBK
385110 3-th AGBRBK GBR "UNITED KINGDOM" - a new retailer? Play store was a AUKGBK
390110 3-th AUSGBK
395110 4-th AUSGBK
399110 3-th ATMOBK
400110 4-th AUSGBK
406110 4-th AUSGBK
419110 5-th AUSGBK
420110 6-th ADEGBK
422110 6-th ADEGBK
423110 5-th ATMOBK





424110 10-th AUSGBK
425110 8-th AUSGBK
430110 5-th ATMOBK
435110 5-th ATMOBK
445110 9-th ATMOBK
450110 9-th ATMOBK
451110 8-th ANEUBK "EUROPE OPEN" - something new
455110 8-th ANEUBK
456110 8-th ACAGBK CANADA_OPEN
461110 8-th ATMOBK
463110 8-th ADEGBK
465110 8-th ADEGBK
467110 9-th ADEGBK
469110 9-th ADEGBK
471110 9-th ATMOBK
474110 9-th ATMOBK
476110 9-th ATMOBK
479110 9-th AUS8BK
482110 9-th ATMOBK
485110 10-th AUKGBK "UNITED KINGDOM_OPEN"
487110 10-th AUKGBK
489110 10-th AUKGBK
491110 10-th AAVCBK VIDEOTRON - seems to be a Canadian telco?
493110 10-th ADEUBK
495110 10-th ADEUBK
497110 10-th AISRBK
499500 10-th AUKGBK

Ladies and gentleman, we seem to be approaching the serial number "half of the million" Curious who will be getting it

Production rate seems to be accelerating to 20k devices per day.



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20k per day x 30 days = 600,000 per month.

But is it possible that LG is increasing to 1 million per month?

If you take this link and put your IMEI number at the very end, this LG site will spit back out the IMEI followed by a long string of characters that looks something like this: “LGE960 ACAGBK 212KPHG188745 20121206 GLOBAL/GLOBAL N N”

If you break this string apart, you get:
LGE960 = phone model
A = ?
CA = Country where the device was sold. (Others include ‘US’ for the U.S., ‘HK’ for Hong Kong, ‘AU’ for Australia and so on.)
G = Storage (G = 16GB, 8 = 8GB)
BK = Color
2 = ?
12 = Production Month (November)
K = Production Country (Korea)
PHG = ?
188745 = The line or production number, showing that phone was the 188,745th device made.
2012121206 = The production date in YYYYMMDD format

Could LG going for volume to make up for the low margin?

Crude Example using hypothetical #:

selling 1 million phones at $50 profit each = $50 million profit
selling 4 million phones at $15 profit each = $60 million profit

 

[dmelgar]

Did you see the story this morning the LG is stopping Nexus 4 production and essentially abandoning it? They're going to announce new phones at Mobile World Congress.

Typical Android.

So much for accelerated production.

http://bgr.com/2013/01/11/nexus-4-successor-rumor-289453/

 

[EbookReader]

Did you see the story this morning the LG is stopping Nexus 4 production and essentially abandoning it? They're going to announce new phones at Mobile World Congress.

Typical Android.

So much for accelerated production.

http://bgr.com/2013/01/11/nexus-4-successor-rumor-289453/

the original article is from a website that is no very legit. International Business Time. A very grand and legit name but they are the opposite end from Wall Street Journal. Their main purpose is to create stories that would get clicks. And so far they are succeeding since a lot of people are linking to their site.

another clue that they just making it up: they used the word "alleged" and "rumour" with no citation or source.

They assumption is pretty basic: LG is making the next generation Optimus G and therefore, they are halting Nexu 4 production.

Maybe tomorrow they will report that Samsung is shutting down the production of Galaxy S3 to make way for the production of Galaxy S4. I bet that will get lot of clicks too.



p.s. T-Mobile stores are getting the Nexus 4. From the comments, some stores already have it in. And it seem the release date is January 16th.

http://www.tmonews.com/2013/01/rumo...iving-nexus-4-inventory-as-early-as-tomorrow/

Cramill • 10 hours ago
I called a T-Mobile store today and they had 2 in stock, so sounds like they are selling them now.
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Tmobile Rep TX • 8 hours ago −
We have the phones but we can not sell till I THINK the 16th...



The demand for this phone is VERY HIGH. Why shut it down?

 

[EbookReader]

514,000

<suffix>AUSGBK</suffix>
<msn>301KPAE514000</msn>
<esndate>20130112</esndate>
<buyer>USG</buyer>
<esnoutgodate>null</esnoutgodate>
<ULocationcode>N</ULocationcode>
<buyername>GOOGLE_OPEN_16G</buyername>

 

[EbookReader]

577,000 mark

<model>LGE960</model>
<suffix>AUKGBK</suffix>
<msn>301KPAE577000</msn>
<esndate>20130113</esndate>
<buyer>UKG</buyer>
<esnoutgodate>null</esnoutgodate>
<ULocationcode>N</ULocationcode>
<buyername>UNITED KINGDOM_OPEN</buyername>
<csn>LG0000502521437</csn>

 

[EbookReader]

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2013/01/133_128849.html#ystfuv

LG Electronics is aiming to sell 75 million handsets this year, up sharply from this year’s estimated 55 million, according to the firm’s local partner, Tuesday.

Of the 75 million, the company said that around 45 million will be profitable smartphones and the remaining 30 million will be budget and feature phones.

LG aims to sell 45 million smartphones in 2013.

45 mil / 12 months = 3.75 million smartphones production per month.

Maybe 1 million per month for the Nexus 4 is a bit too optimistic.

 

[EbookReader]

October: 70,000
November: 90,000
December: 210,000
January so far (as of January 18th): 315,000

(at this rate, January could see around 560,000 - 600,000)

Total so far: 685,000

 

[maxosx]

All manufacturers manipulate the numbers. What really matters is what buyers choose & how well they enjoy their purchase. Its a huge market with plenty of room for everyone. Without the competitors it would be awfully boring.

 

[EbookReader]

over 703,000 have been produced and delivered now