As if the news and rumours regarding the upcoming iPhone weren't enough, a recent report indicates that Apple will begin trial production of the iPad 3, this October.
According to this report, Apple is currently working alongside its manufacturers and component suppliers based in Taiwan and China in order to begin the trial production of the iPad 3 as early as October. The report claims that the Cupertino outfit has already placed an initial order of 1.5 million units.
It turns out that Apple has already given orders for essential components to its manufacturers. Components which include but are not limited to the A6 processor currently being manufactured by TSMC and display panels. One of the most anxiously awaited improvements in Apple's new tablet is the Retina Display at a cool 2048 x 1536 resolution. For sampling purposes, Apple has already started receiving components in small quantities. According to sources, there won't be an increase in the screen size and the iPad 3 will retain that 9.7-inch screen with which the iPad originally made its debut with.
One spokesperson for a component supplier added that Apple's suppliers will be working at full throttle in order to increase yield rate of the upcoming third generation iPad in the fourth quarter of 2011 so that everything which needs to be taken care of, is taken care of before the formal iPad 3 launch in early 2012.
It is highly likely that Apple will release the third generation iPad in March 2012, a full year after it released the iPad 2. Apple is particularly known for its release cycles, though it might have missed one by not announcing a new iPhone at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, we can count on the company to stay true to its annual product release cycles.
Currently, tablets from other manufacturers that have entered the market this year are still catching up with the innovation Apple did in iPad 2. We still haven't seen a tablet that goes one step ahead of the iPad 2, all things considered. So while the competition is catching up with what Apple has done nearly six months ago, the company is hard at work to release iPad 3 in early 2012 so that once again the iPad sets the bar high for its competitors.
We have, but would you place your bet on the fact that the third generation iPad might look like this?