Report: iPad 2 comes in February

četvrtak, 23.06.2011.

Report: iPad 2 comes in February

Digitimes will have learned that Apple its partners to launch the iPad 2 prepared in February 2011. Foxconn should be prepared to produce in the coming weeks 400000-600000 copies of the tablets. The Company declines comment.

Apple wanted in January with the production of the provisional iPad 2 start-called unit, Digitimes writes. The firmware will still tested, so it'll be a delay. Mass production is scheduled to start in any case "within the next 100 days."

Generally considered safe, that in the first quarter of 2011, a second will be announced iPad - one year after the launch of the first edition. A frontal camera, as they iPhone 4 and iPod 4G are considered to be safe. It is strategically important for the Video Conference Service FaceTime needed. Moreover, some analysts speculate that Qualcomm Apple will supply with processors that allow a so-called "world-iPad" by supporting both CDMA and GSM networks. The current version only supports GSM-based third generation mobile communications.

Foxconn is building among other things, the manufacture, iPad new factory in Chengdu. Since it is still not gone beyond the trial run, which is manufactured iPad 2 well in the existing plant in Shenzhen. According to the report also know the manufacturer of the components in the decision that they will deliver there.

An analyst UBS Investment Bank assumes that Apple will sell 28 million next year iPads. In the third quarter of 2010, there were 4.19 million units, combined in the first nine months of 2010, 7.5 million, the sale is under way in many countries only slowly. In the manufacturing country, China, for example, was the Apple Tablet launched in September.

The production of second-generation iPad will start soon and fast.