Is Apple’s iPhone coming even closer to release? The latest rumour floating around the Internet is 
that Hon Hai Precision, a manufacturing company based in Taiwan, has won a contract to manufacture 12 million mobile phone handsets for Apple.
The Commercial Times, which is the source of the report, said that the phones will launch during the first half of the year. Hon Hai Precision is apparently the same company as Foxconn, whose factories were the subject of intense scrutiny during the summer. Apple iPhone contract goes to Hon Hai Precision, and airlines refute iPod integration deal - Pocket-lint.co.uk