Taipei/London — Apple expects iPhone sales to return to growth in 2020 as the introduction of a line of 5G devices supercharges demand, a person familiar with the matter said.

The company aims to ship more than 200-million handsets in 2020 after introducing more than four new iPhone models, possibly including 4G and 5G models and a low-cost successor to the budget iPhone SE device, the source said. That’s up from analysts’ estimates of about 170-million to 190-million for 2019, snapping at least a year of stagnant sales...

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