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[applesith]

It's an old prototype or internal unit. They are not going to add ethernet to the iPad. Let's use out heads people.

 

[Varedis]

Better image of the device this actually is in the picture:

The iPad 3 will actually be an Android Flying Touch:

 

[Angra-mainju]

Why do all photographs, of unseen devices, UFOs, magic creatures, Hellboy and Elvis Presley using a Mac are always out of focus??????

 

[Biscuit411]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

iPhone 5 rumors dying down? Time to fire up the iPad 3 rumors then...

 

[sycamore1]

I think the bulge is a light anomaly.

That's what she said.....

 

[atx_knepp]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.1 Safari/533.17.8)

http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/tabletpc2010/product-detailfekEYxGvJBWq/China-AF010-Android-OS-2-1-WiFi-3G-Ethernet-Camera-HDMI-Tablet-PC.html

Or even better, scroll to the bottom and click on the last pic on the right:
http://www.selpcs.co.uk/product543688_2248670.aspx

 

[fullojellybeans]

Omg macrumors. Can you at least wait until wednesday to post this crap? You know well and good that the photo posted is a 1st gen iPad that someone either dropped or ran over with a car.

Stop the insanity.

Oh and me too

 

[gpat]

Ethernet on iPad?

THIS IS MADNESS!

 

[mrgreen4242]

Probably an iPad 1 prototype... could also be an iPad mini. 7" tablet for $249/299/399 (8gb/16/32). FaceTime camera but no rear facing one. iPod touch gets minor tweaks and price drop, iPhone gets a 4s and 5. One more thing, we're killing the Kindle Fire before it launces.

 

[pewra]

Probably an iPad 1 prototype... could also be an iPad mini. 7" tablet for $249/299/399 (8gb/16/32). FaceTime camera but no rear facing one. iPod touch gets minor tweaks and price drop, iPhone gets a 4s and 5. One more thing, we're killing the Kindle Fire before it launces.

Ethernet on iPad?

THIS IS MADNESS!

Omg macrumors. Can you at least wait until wednesday to post this crap? You know well and good that the photo posted is a 1st gen iPad that someone either dropped or ran over with a car.

Stop the insanity.

Oh and me too

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iPhone 5 rumors dying down? Time to fire up the iPad 3 rumors then...

Why do all photographs, of unseen devices, UFOs, magic creatures, Hellboy and Elvis Presley using a Mac are always out of focus??????

It's an old prototype or internal unit. They are not going to add ethernet to the iPad. Let's use out heads people.

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

Or that bulge looking shadow could be someone's shotty photoshop skills.

This really doesn't make sense. Why would Apple remove camera on the 3rd gen which they introduced in 2nd gen?

You really didn't bother reading the previous posts I guess..

Nope.

 

[ironsienna]

Nobody seems to read today… I bet they are consumed reading Friedrich Nietzsche...

Nope.

 

[macnews]

OMG and iPad3!?! WOW! COOL! AMAZING!

Oh wait, it clearly is much thicker than the iPad2, hmmm. Oh that's right Apple is focused on making products bulkier so this must be true. Those of you posting the very similar Android tablets must be wrong.

 

[milo]

agree with most of this, except that getting rid of the rear-facing camera wouldn't be such a dumb move - it really is a useless camera (not the front-facing camera, which they definitely have to keep). I've only ever seen one person using the rear-facing camera in public, and they looked like an idiot doing so.

Enhanced reality apps? Reading bar codes? Or when you just need to take a quick picture of something to send, or show something in a FaceTime chat?

 

[Ieo]

It's just a 'shopped original ipad.

I can tell from the pixels and from having seen a lot of 'shops in my time.

 

[Memo86]

Similar ethernet bump:

http://9to5google.com/2011/09/05/from-china-10-1-inch-android-tablet-with-ethernet-port/

This is it! There's the bugle

 

[shandyman]

Varedis nails it in one.

More importantly, around the writing is a white halo from the clone stamp

i was just about to post this as i had just seen the article and the picture. Spot on with halo from clone stamp poor effort in photoshop.

I hope MacRumors show some professionalism and post an update indicating that the report is fake, on this really bad written article the sooner possible.

I wonder what else are they going to think to increase their page views. I am not referring of course to the MacRumors, but to the guys that stuck the apple sticker on the back of this tablet...

yea just a bit of time spent checking this out and there wouldn't be such a mess. there's just too many things wrong with it, starting with the poor photoshopping, the fact it's an android tablet, also as astated no chance apple would go bulkier again after the iPad 2.

 

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The following photo has appeared on JailBreakiPhone4u and is beginning to circulate across the internet. The claim in the original article is that this somehow represents an iPad 3 Prototype.

The image appears to show an iPad-like case with Apple logo, and iPad name, but with some differences to the currently shipping design. The most noticeable difference is the presence of a bulge near the bottom of the device that appears to be for a port. The area is also labeled with an ethernet port symbol. Next, based on the single shot, the device appears to be widescreen configuration.

We tried contacting the poster to get some backstory, but with no response. Given the current information, our best guess is that this represents a knock-off / clone iPad design. It seems very unlikely that Apple would either add an ethernet port or change the aspect ratio of the iPad in the next version. The iPad 3 is rumored to be coming in 2012.


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Update this article, it's fake, see Varedis' post

 

[Dr McKay]

That could be a developer port for Debugging problems.

 

[pewra]

That could be a developer port for Debugging problems.

You can't be serious, and you're a mod to boot.


Even if it were for debugging (which you can do perfectly over USB) there's no way Apple would have produced a production-esque case for it. One would hope that the hardware had been tested before having a case designed around it.

 

[Laird Knox]

This really doesn't make sense. Why would Apple remove camera on the 3rd gen which they introduced in 2nd gen?

Obviously so they can then add a camera to the "revolutionary" new iPad 4.

 

[mazz0]

I think you're all being a bit harsh. I think it's quite a good photoshop.

 

[accessoriesguy]

It does look like an ethernet port, feels like a nock off :/

With apple moving to wireless everything, I don't see why they would want a port aside from USB or SD for a device like the ipad.

 

[cheesyme]

What I hope is that in future MacRumors spends more time investigating the sources and validity of these tips/leaks before diving headfirst in to an article.

I agree but then again i started checking macrumors 6-7 years ago simply to get first-hand news... Afterall its called macRUMORS for a reason...

 

[robeddie]

What I hope is that in future MacRumors spends more time investigating the sources and validity of these tips/leaks before diving headfirst in to an article.

Seriously. I too am wondering exactly what, if any, consideration goes into publishing something like this, when it's clearly an android tablet with an apple sticker on it.

Arn?

 

[BergerFan]

I think the bulge is a light anomaly.

Otherwise known as Photoshop.