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| Ready for another rumor about the upcoming iPad 3? Here we go. Someone claiming to be in possession of said tablet has sent BGR some screenshots showing output from a development and debug tool called iBoot. From those photos, some details about the iPad 3′s hardware can easily be inferred. First off, it looks like the previous rumors were true and the iPad 3 will have a quad-core processor, probably one that is going to be called A6 by Apple. The CPU has the model number S5L8945X. The dual-core A5 found in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S has the model number S5L8940X, and the A4 seen in the original iPad, the iPhone 4, and the iPod touch 4th generation is the S5L8930X. There will be two different iPad models (J1 and J2), one of which will have Wi-Fi-only connectivity (as you'd expect), the other however coming with GSM/CDMA/LTE mobile data support as well. If that will be just one SKU to pull off working on three different network types on who knows how many bands worldwide, that would be quite the feat indeed. Even if there will be different SKUs for different mobile data types (like what we see now with the iPhone, for example), the LTE support is notable (though we've heard about it before). | |
