Foxconn said to be hiring workers for 'iPhone 6' production

There is already a lot of excitement surrounding the upcoming iPhone, and if reports are to be believed, Foxconn has begun the process of recruiting workers to work on this next-gen smartphone from Apple.

Citing a Chinese-language report on China Business News, CNET reports that a recruitment firm with a Hon Hai unit in Zhengzhou in the Henan Province has begun the process of hiring workers on a large-scale to work on the production of the upcoming Apple iPhone. Interestingly, the source report refers to this upcoming phone as the ‘iPhone 6’, even though there is no such confirmation from Foxconn yet.

Lot of excitement surrounding upcoming iPhone!

The report also refers to a certain conceptual image of the iPhone that comes sans borders and sports an aluminium carbon fibre shell. “..the entire weight of the body lighter than the iPhone 5 by 40%.” Needless to add, such mentions must be taken with a pinch of salt as it may not be the final design of the phone. 

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