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Apple's iPhone 12 series comes with built-in support for five navigation satellites - GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and BeiDou Satellite - according to specs released on Apple's website after today's launch.

China’s top display maker BOE is one of the suppliers of the two other upcoming iPhone models besides the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, chinastarmarket.cn said, citing supply chain sources.

The development team behind iOS jailbreak tool Checkra1n has released version 0.11.0 of Checkra1n, which adds support for iOS 14, but only on a limited number of devices.

Apple has "significant iPhone upgrade potential" in China on the eve of the new iPhone's release, Morgan Stanley wrote in a report on Wednesday.

According to a Weibo survey, 95 percent of 1.2 million people said they would switch to an Android phone rather than give up WeChat if it were banned.

Apple will hold its iPhone 12 launch event the week of October 12, with pre-orders starting later that week and shipments beginning the following week, famed leaker Jon Prosser said today.

There have been rumors that Apple has lowered its iPhone 12 shipping targets, but according to Chinese media reports, Apple suppliers have not received such notifications.

In response to the upcoming release of Apple's new iPhones, Foxconn's Zhengzhou main production area is heavily looking for candidates, Tencent Tech said, citing industry chain sources.

The US government's blocking of WeChat, which has the biggest impact on iPhones among Apple hardware products, may force Apple to remove WeChat from the App Store, Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a report released late Sunday. 

As the only smartphone in China that doesn't yet support the BeiDou Satellite Navigation System (BDS), Apple's iPhone may soon be making a change.