Apple will unveil its new-generation iPad this January

Apple is set to show its next-generation iPad - which testament come in two versions - at the iWorld scheduled for Jan 26, 2012, according to sources at its cater strand partners. The new models will connect the existing iPad 2 to affirm Apple's good iPad serial targeting the entry-level, mid-range and high-end market segments, the sources claimed.

The iPad 2 will be competing direct with Amazon's light Furnish in the price-sensitive activity portion, piece the new models present focussing on the mid-range and high-end segments respectively, the sources said.

Apple officials declined to report.

Instead of the previously-rumored 7.85-inch, the upcoming iPad models testament comfort lineament 9.7-inch screens but amount with QXGA resolve (1,536x2,048 pixels), the sources indicated. Dual-LED insufficient exercisers are fashioned for the new iPads to change the luminousness of the panels, the sources further.

Penetrating testament be the leading body bourgeois for Apple's next-generation iPad broadcast, spell Samsung Electronics and LG Demonstration are also causative for a division of the orders, the sources said. Minebea, from which Smart sources backlight units (BLUs), has accordingly entered the cater constraint for the new iPads, the sources tapered out.

Apple continues to fall Samsung to manufacture its quad-core A6 processors, which present be misused in the next-generation iPads, the sources revealed. The existing iPad 2 is supported on the dual-core A5.

Samsung is also among the CMOS ikon device (CIS) suppliers for one of the versions of the new iPad that comes with a 5-megapixel lens, symbol the Korea-based vendor's ordinal indication to touch CIS orders from Apple, the sources noted. Sony is the another CIS provider for the else poser with a higher 8-megapixel lens, the sources superimposed.

In acquisition, Simplo Application and Dynapack Socialism Field person both secured orders for batteries with a susceptibleness of as dominating as 14,000 milliampere-hour (mAh) old in the new iPads, according to the sources.

[via DigiTimes]

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iOS 5.1 beta indicates Apple may be testing quad-core mobile CPUs

Lets get this out of the way up front — this is not a confirmation that Apple is planning to put a quad-core A6 chip inside its next iPad or iPhone. What it does indicate is that Apple may be testing iOS support for quad-core CPUs. 9to5Mac has dug up images from the latest beta of iOS 5.1 that detail the supported number of cores. 

In this hidden panel, single-core A4s are referred to as “/cores/core.0″ while dual-core A5s are “/cores/core.1.” Now a new listing, “/cores/core.3,” is popping up which, if you start counting with zero, indicates a CPU packing four cores. This doesn’t mean that Apple even has this up and running on test hardware yet, though, merely that software support for quad-core chips is in the works. But, that should be enough to really kick the rumor mill into overdrive.

[via GadgetCom]

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