The successor of the iPad 2 will get support for the in the Netherlands is not yet used 4g network lte. That claims to news agency Bloomberg. Also, the ‘iPad 3’ a quadcore-soc and a higher resolution screen on board.
Apple does not yet support lte on the iPhone, but has decided the iPad is an lte chip. The tablet thanks to the larger battery, a better battery life, writes Bloomberg, on the basis of three anonymous sources. The ‘iPad 3’, as the financial news agency the tablet indicates, in march go on sale. The production would by now have started.
The support for lte is also likely to American providers to meet. Especially the biggest telcos, Verizon and AT&T, are working on their 4g network roll-out and requirements of manufacturers that new hardware lte support. As announced AT&T at the consumer electronics show CES last week, eight new smartphones with lte support.
Lte is in the Netherlands not yet in use. Moreover, in the United States used frequencies for lte in the Netherlands are not available, so the Dutch are likely to be few to have an iPad with 4g.
Bloomberg reiterates existing rumors: the iPad 3 would have a quadcore-soc and a higher resolution screen. The quadcore processor is believed to be the Apple A6. An older rumor suggested that the A6 four ARM Cortex A9 processing cores. Bloomberg also speaks of better graphics, probably a quad-core PowerVR gpu. The iPad 2 has a dual-core gpu in the form of the PowerVR SGX543MP2.
The news agency remains vague about the resolution of the screen. One of the sources would have said that the resolution is higher than that of ‘some hdtv’s’. A previously referred resolution, 2048×1536 pixels, is higher than that of many conventional hd-tvs, which support a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. There have been going since the announcement of the iPad 2, rumors about a successor. Apple announced the iPad 2 in early march last year, after which the tablet a couple of weeks later in the store.
