Apple has resolved some iPhone 15 issues, Pro Max mass production lags: analyst
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Amid Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) announcement on Tuesday that it will hold an event next month to show off its new iPhones, the company is still running into some production issues with the upcoming line of smartphones.
In a blog post, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the company and its suppliers have resolved the stacked CMOS image sensor issue it ran into earlier by increasing production capacity, but it is still impacting 10% to 15% of regular models.
Kuo, a widely watched analyst, also said the company has resolved battery and frame issues, even as the titanium frames for the upcoming smartphone are exceptionally difficult to process and resulted in "significant" design changes during development, such as removing the virtual button design.
However, the iPhone 15 Pro Max model was the last project to "kick off," so mass production of the high-end Apple (AAPL) iPhone is still behind other models, Kuo explained. He added that colors for the Pro model could be gray, white, black and blue, while the regular iPhone 15 models may come in black, pink, yellow, blue and green.
In recent days, some have speculated that Apple (AAPL) may increase the price of the iPhone 15 Pro models by $100. The iPhone 14 Pro starts at $999, while the Pro Max model starts at $1,099.
Apple (AAPL) shares were fractionally higher in pre-market trading on Wednesday.

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