“The forthcoming iPad 3 will be thinner than the iPad 2, Cult of Mac has exclusively learned at the Consumer Electronics Show from a well-placed source,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac.
“A major accessory manufacturer already working on iPad 3 cases has told Cult of Mac the upcoming device is measurably more svelte than the iPad 2, despite the fact that the iPad 2 is already Apple’s thinnest profile iOS device,” Brownlee reports. “The iPad 3 is widely anticipated to be the first iPad with a Retina display, doubling the resolution of the current generation iPad and affording a picture quality in which pixels are indiscernible to the human eye.”
Brownlee reports, “It’s worth nothing that the Retina display iPhone 4 was substantially thinner than the iPhone 3GS, despite a sizable upgrade in resolution. If the iPad 3 is not thinner than the iPad 2, the company will be bucking an almost half-decade long trend.”
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MacDailyNews Take: “The new iPad. You can’t be too thin. Or too powerful.” 😉
Count me in.
It’ll double as slicer for chefs and a weapon for soldiers it’ll be so thin and powerful.
Wait, how is this even possible? Just yesterday a source said it was 1mm thicker.
Tomorrow’s news will say that it will be the same thickness as the iPad 2.
Do they mean if the iPad 3 isn’t thinner than the iPad 2, it will be a huge disappointment to the iWatchers? WTF is the matter with these people? The rest of the tablet industry is practically putting out Android-based crap and the critics seem satisfied enough.
As Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, said in the 1960s,
“A woman can’t be too rich or too thin.” The same goes for electronic devices, especially the iPad, huh?
Haha. I caught that, as well.
Hence the MDN take, Captain Obvious!
My understanding is the new glass can be thinner yet is stronger.
I wonder if they would keep the same thickness of glass for rigidity or is the case strong enough on its own to allow the thinner glass?
Unless you can actually roll the thing up, how thin do you need it? I have big hands, so smaller things can end up being harder for me to hold
(insert obvious joke here).
that’s what she said
Wow.That was so funny I forgot to…OK, actually I did chuckle a little.
Uh huh. Didn’t we hear from case mfrs before on cases for the new iPhone 5?
Lesson learned > You can’t trust case manufacturers or accessory mfrs for rumors.
“If the iPad 3 is not thinner than the iPad 2, the company will be bucking an almost half-decade long trend.”
Not necessarily true. That may be the trend, but when the iPod first came out with video, it was thicker than the previous version. When Apple finds a justifiable reason, they will sometimes go with added features and the product size may increase because of it.
So now we have two rumors clashing with each other.. how nice.
“the iPad 2 is already Apple’s thinnest profile iOS device”
Really? Thinner than an iPod touch?
Another day, another rumor
Thin is nice, but what about weight?
Despite the long list of complaints about the Kindle, the one thing it has going for it is the weight. Reading books on the iPad with one hand (the way most people like to read book/books) is not a comfortable task.
I’m hoping for a lighter iPad 3.
It sounds like you need an even heavier iPad to pump you up, girlie man.
Is there an app for that?
Loser Apple rumors appear every day lately. First the iPad 3 is ‘fatter’, then it’s ‘thinner’ blahblahblah. I know exactly which orifice this BS is coming from.
Then again, a few of these rumors may be true. Who is to know what is real with so many rumor rats running around in the information sewers.
So, you’re guessing the new iPad will be slower, fatter, and heaver?