iPad 5 And iPad Mini 2 Release Date – March, According To Analyst
Apple easily qualifies as one of the companies that is constantly under public scrutiny and it didn’t keep a low profile in the media even despite its not participating in the Consumer Electronic Show that took place in Las Vegas. It has been reported recently that Apple has started?evaluating?Retina screens for the upcoming iPad mini. The reports stated that Apple was testing the high resolution panels based on One Glass Solution, that have been previously sent to them by?Foxconn?s subsidiary, Shenzhen Century Science & Technology. True or not, the panels’ being sent to Apple for testing are proof that the Cupertino firm has kept its options open and is currently exploring and evaluating competing solutions before actually locking suppliers for the second generation of iPad mini.
What this is a clear indicator of is that Apple has slowly started to bring its supply chain partners in the first row for the upcoming update of the iPad. As news started to revolve around the topic more and more, March was?allegedly?assigned as the official launching date for the?iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 i, so let’s see if the hints we have on this will actually become reality. In this respect, it has actually been stated by Brian White, analyst for?Topeka Capital Markets, that their checks at CES mark March as the date for the release of the iPad 5 and of the second-generation iPad mini, so it all seems to add up. When it comes to the arising changes highlighted by the release of the two before mentioned products, he claims that the iPad mini will be very much similar in form to the iPad mini generation previously launched in October, whereas the iPad 5 shall be launched in a thinner and also lighter version of the iPad 4.
As prior to any official launches, it is not unusual for a lot of rumors to be started up in what concerns the new features available on the upcoming products, especially when it comes to Apple. White doesn’t actually bring into discussion if Retina will be the operating screen for the new iPad mini, but there is a lot of buzz regarding the theory and it has also been reported that sources within Apple’s supply chain confirm it.
Officially announced on the date of Oct 23rd, 2012, the iPad mini went on sale starting the November 2nd ?of 2012, and it was placed in almost all of the market Apple held. Although released in March, the third generation of the iPad was soon replaced by the newly launched iPad 4, at a distance of only six months after.
Although there are a lot of questions that come to mind and a lot of different theories regarding the new features it shall encompass, we all have one thing in common, and that is the hunger to get our hold on the new devices and explore them in depth. We are really looking forward to the new iPads, so we can only hope you share our thoughts. Let’s just hold on in there and see what they bring new to the game. ?Tell us what you would like the new iPad to be equipped with?
