Apple on track to move 80 million iPhones by 2012

Apple’s iPhones ar selling better than ever. With Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) smartphones now coming in at all kinds of different monetary value points, it’s no surprisal that Cupertino managed to ship 13.7 million iPhones in 2008. The iPhone 3GS took the world by violent storm with 5.2 million units shipped in Q2 2009, and enjoys a 99% atonement evaluation. But, that’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to new inquiry from Bernstein Research psychoanalyst Tony Sacconaghi and RBS Das Kapital Markets psychoanalyst Mike Abramsky.

Sacconaghi estimates that Apple will reach yearbook iPhone gross sales of 50 million units by September of 2011. Apple is expected to sell something like 11 1000000 iPhones in 2011 with a future Verizon (NYSE: VZ) iPhone deal, with many more expected to ship out to China, once Apple and PRC Unicom finalize their partnership and announce their plans. Double-digit emergence (27% per year) of the smartphone market in 2010 and 2011 will aid bring the iPhone to the masses.

Abramsky goes even further, estimating that Apple volition see yearbook iPhone sales of 82.1 million units in 2012. At that point, Apple will have captured 5.7% of the global mobile earphone marketplace, with 16.3% of the smartphone market to boot – smartphones volition also shuffle up 35.1% of global cellular telephone shipments in 2012. Abramsky’s views of the smartphone market are a act more enthusiastic than Sacconaghi – the smartphone segment will see tremendous emergence in coming days and will allow Apple to “sustain its jumper cable in subject, games, and apps, which we expect to expand to include mobile commercialism, user-generated subject, advanced gaming, etc.,” giving the troupe an even broader reaching in the smartphone market.

Now, these numbers ar all projections, and should be taken with a food grain of salt. HTC and Samsung are fasting contracting up to Apple’s iPhone, and Android poses a real threat to the iPhone OS. It should be interesting to see how this all plays out.