“Apple’s new generation iPad will enter mass production soon with the launch set for March 2012,”Aaron Lee and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes, citing “sources from the upstream supply chain.”
“The sources revealed that internally Apple does not view the new iPad product as iPad 3, but rather an upgraded iPad 2,” Lee and Tsai report. “The real iPad 3 will not be launched until the third quarter of 2012 at the earliest.”
Lee and Tsai report, “The iPad 2 upgrade will be thinner than iPad 2, and will offer longer battery life.”
Full article here.