“It seems pretty likely that the invitation to Apple’s iPad 3 event (below) includes a shot of the new model,” Ryan Faas writes for Cult of Mac.
“The display is particularly sharp and smooth – just like the anticipated retina display for the device,” Faas writes.
“The spacing of the icon’s on the iPad 3 pictured on the invite clearly indicate that it’s in portrait orientation rather than landscape,” Faas writes. “But there’s no sign of a home button, a design change that Apple has been allegedly been toying with for some time.”

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Don’t think it’s the iPad. Check out the size if the bezel in relation to the size of the thumb nail? On the iPad my nail covers the bezel. On this pic the thumb nail doesn’t. No way is the bezel of the 3 going to be wider. So what is it? The TV??
“We have something you really have to SEE” that’s probably a new TV
“And Touch” that’s probably the new iPad
Actually if you look at the wavy line of the dock, you can see that it is a long s bend, thus portrait….
Playbook works just fine without a home button, whichever way up it is. Much more intuitive. At least RIM got that bit right first time.