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The iPad rumors seem to be flooding in thick and fast, more so than the forth coming iPhone 5, then again the iPad 2 is expected to be released before the next gen iPhone. We’ve already added a couple of rumors to our iPad 2.0 checklist, but none of them were really out of the ordinary and I’d be mildly surprised if most of, if not all of them found there way to the second generation iPad.
Let’s have a quick recap of them:
- Front Facing Camera
- Thinner Glass
- Retina Display
- Gyroscope
- USB Connector
So what else have we got to add to this list? Well citing unknown Chinese sources, a Japanese blog – Mac Otakara has reported that Apple’s next generation iPad will have a wide range speaker for better sound quality and have a flatter back, more like the current iPhone 4. The iPad currently has a curved shape similar to the iPod Touch and previous iPhone generations.
The blog also said that it is an additional 3 mm thinner than the current iPad, which would place it at a mere 10.4 mm thick, or thin.
Mac Otakara reckon that the second generation iPad will be shipping in January, the same time that Apple introduced the first generation iPad, however that didn’t ship until April later that year.
Leaked cases for the second generation iPad suggested that the slots in these cases were for a USB port or for an SD card slot, however this latest rumor of a thicker higher quality speaker would lead us to believe that it’s to accommodate that.
I’m sure there will be plenty more rumors between now and the inevitable launch of the iPad 2, but it’s always nice to speculate.
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