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Trial Production of Thinner Retina Display iPad Mini Underway, March Release?

Trial Production of Thinner Retina Display iPad Mini Underway, March Release?

Posted December 23, 2012 at 5:34pm by iClarified · 36930 views
Trial production of a thinner iPad mini with Retina Display and a A6X processor is reportedly underway with a rumored release date of March 2013.

Macotakara relays a Chinese ZOL report that claims "according to my inside source, iPad(5th) may be released in March, 2013."

A rough translation:

Source told that, design of this new iPad will be like iPad mini in detail, and be thinner and lightweight. (The expectation comes to have a small 4mm in height, 17mm in width, depth 2mm). To convey a different article, trial production of iPad mini (2nd generation) has been started. LCD display is 7.9 inches, it (326ppi) 2048 x 1536 pixels, it seems that will be equipped with a A6X processor such as iPad (4th generation).

Its recently been speculated that Apple may be moving to a semi-annual release cycle for its products which would see the iPhone and iPad receive one major and one minor update each year.

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Trial Production of Thinner Retina Display iPad Mini Underway, March Release?Trial Production of Thinner Retina Display iPad Mini Underway, March Release?