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Production of Next-Gen iPad to Ramp in February? 'World Mode' Cellular Data Access?

Jazurm said:
The question is

How long does it take to go from production ramp up to consumers hands?
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2+ months.

A reasonable expectation for the actual release would be April.

I hate these sort of leaks as it emboldens the holdouts. :(

cheers to the longs
JohnG
 
Nausicaa said:
Other than that, I can't see any features of the 2nd gen iPad being interesting enough to upgrade from my gen 1. It's a wonderful little machine and I think it will be plenty fast for the next year. I have no interest in video chat, and I don't think we'll see any screen-res bumps. Aside from the camera, I see this update being similar to the iPhone 3Gs - mostly speed and storage improvements.
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I think it depends what Apple believes it is hearing from user feedback. If they think there's a specific market in which the iPad is very strong, or a use case that seems popular, then they'll add features specifically for those cases. In the same way that the rise of gaming on iOS, especially on the Touch, brought extra sensors, expect the same kinds of somewhat under the hood improvements on the iPad. Indeed, now the device is quite clearly powering its own software eco-system rather than relying on 2x iPhone apps, I could see Apple allowing a greater degree of device fragmentation too.

In short, sensors, video/audio/number crunching hardware and libs, and similar are likely to be at least half of the improvements for iPad2.
 
thinner??? why?? give me an hour more battery life if you have some spare space! :rolleyes:

my guess is that the V2 will be faster and have a front facing camera, but i doubt it will have the retina display. maybe more storage. but apple has to keep some of the good stuff for the V3.

putting all they have into V2 will piss off the current users and make it harder to make the V3 better as well.
 
badcrumble said:
I hope this upgrade is so massive that it makes iPad v1 owners snap their tablets over their knees in grief.
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lol.

k995 said:
Why always this focus on thinner?
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It's tradition… after the thick hard-cover book has been out for a while, they publish the paperback.

Seriously though, I agree with you. If getting them thinner didn't make Apple feel so darned clever, would they bother? I mean, there's nothing clever about making a door handle thinner so no one bothers — it comes back to the ergonomics of what feels right in the hand. If Apple could make a 0.5 mm thick iPhone, would they?? :confused:
 
thinner makes no sense to me. keep it the same and increase battery life. or keep it the same but still make it lighter. the iPad is as thin as it needs to be. any thinner and it would feel awkward.
 
Processor and Graphics chips seem plenty fast enough.

More RAM might be nice. Front camera is okay for facetime, but not really a big deal for me.

I wonder if this will be shipping in March, or announced for "preorder" in March and shipping April?
 
andiwm2003 said:
thinner makes no sense to me. keep it the same and increase battery life. or keep it the same but still make it lighter. the iPad is as thin as it needs to be. any thinner and it would feel awkward.
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The iPad is actually quite thick, just not at the edges. I suspect that Apple would like to flatten the back such that it lays flat on a table, but they wont do that unless they can keep the edge profile more or less as it is on the V1.

My guess is that if the V2 has a different form factor at all, it'll just be *slightly* less concave.
 
topmounter said:
I want iPad v2 to have the Iris display tech from the iP4, but with the same resolution as iPad v1 so it can be smaller and more mobile.
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you mean like, umh, what was it called, heck, ah yeah: the ipod touch?
 
I can't wait to see the official specs. Given the iPad is the 2nd hot product in the product line right now, I think there will be a huge focus on making this hot product even hotter and have the competition scrambling again. Should be really good.
 
Lte?

In my mind, if the iPad 2 is going to be release in March/April, the inclusion of an LTE chipset would make sense. Its my understanding that at first LTE will not carry voice traffic, so the iPad would be a good fit. Verizon should have at least some of their LTE markets turned on by March. It would be a nice "score" for Verizon and would give Apple an opportunity to fine tune LTE before inclusion on the iPhone.
 
Thinner is cool as long as it also implies lighter. If it is thinner but still weighs in at around 1.5 lbs then it is going to be even harder to hold for long periods.
 
SBlue1 said:
thinner??? why?? give me an hour more battery life if you have some spare space! :rolleyes:

my guess is that the V2 will be faster and have a front facing camera, but i doubt it will have the retina display. maybe more storage. but apple has to keep some of the good stuff for the V3.

putting all they have into V2 will piss off the current users and make it harder to make the V3 better as well.
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No way any manufacturer holds back when they have a chance to load things up. They'll go with proven components up to point X.
Whatever they put in now is done with and will no longer occupy development crews. (They can think about the next gen)

But, Apple will have to strike a fine balance between the product feel (as in how it works) and costs.
Sometimes it takes a while for component costs to come down.

Agreed with everybody that thinner is not what we want. More battery please on anything portable!

All that camera stuff, front back and sideways lenses:) needs to go in there and as a killer feature enable it to be a mini projector, similar to what's on the market already.

I still would like to talk to the posters who predicted the ipad was going to be an EPIC fail. LOL
 
Any guesses to how and when they announce the iPad 2 and the Sandy Bridge line of computers? Last time around it went something like this

iPad announced January 27
iPad release April 3
MacBook Pro refresh April 13

My guess is they flip-flip it this time. Meaning a late January Event to announce the MacBook Pro and a release soon after. Then an April refresh of the iPad. I admit, the early 2011 announcement of the new MacBook Pros is being really optimistic. Can't a guy dream :D
 
MacRumors said:
Finally, Blair claims that the next-generation iPad will be thinner than the current model and will require a new manufacturing process to create the thinner unibody design.
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Which not incidentally will mean everyone has to buy yet another case. Heh, heh. Clever.

But the thinness means nothing if they don't knock some of the weight down. From a consumer perspective it's more important to be lighter than thinner.

tjhenn said:
In my mind, if the iPad 2 is going to be release in March/April, the inclusion of an LTE chipset would make sense. Its my understanding that at first LTE will not carry voice traffic, so the iPad would be a good fit. Verizon should have at least some of their LTE markets turned on by March. It would be a nice "score" for Verizon and would give Apple an opportunity to fine tune LTE before inclusion on the iPhone.
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Of course the risk there is that everyone who can jumps on the LTE service and Verizon's fledgling network can't handle the traffic and becomes the "new" ATT and give LTE a black eye. Might not be such a good idea to put LTE on a popular device until it has its sea legs.
 
adomanico18 said:
Can't wait! I knew holding out on iPad 1 was a good call :)
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Yeah!

But you should just skip iPad 2. I mean, iPad 3 has more battery life, extra cameras, a better screen, and the processor is 20% faster.

But you're a sucker if you buy iPad 3.

The iPad 4 will be even faster, lighter, and runs on a new type of power system that hasn't been discovered yet.

But if you buy that, you're stupid.

The flexible screen on the iPad 5 let's you roll it up when you're not using it and stick it in a jacket pocket.

I pity the fools that fell for that, when the iPad 6's super 3D projection screen scales from 3" to 6 feet, and the whole thing fits in the size of a ball-point pen.

And any idiot that bought this iPad 6 will miss out on the iPad 7's direct neural interface...
 
I just love the sound of that phrase "World Mode".
People will be buying it just for those words. :D

What is next for iPhone? iPhone 5 World Mode
 
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