iPhone 4 faces display shortages

Apple is struggling to fulfill its 600,000 iPhone 4 pre-orders due to a shortage of touch screens.

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The production bottleneck is behind AT&T's move to suspend sales of the device before its June 24 debut, according to Ashok Kumar - an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw Inc. In Japan, Softbank has also suspended advance sales of the iPhone.

Apple is halving its monthly production of the new iPhone due to problems procuring displays, after initially expecting to produce 4 million units per month.

The launch of Apple's latest smartphone has also been marred glitches with Apple and AT&T's ordering system which saw shipping dates pushed back from June 24 to July 2 and then July 14.

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