Is Apple Making A Cheaper iPad 3 For 2011?
It looks as if that may be the case. According to a report from DigiTimes, Industry sources have been qouted on the company’s involvement with Taiwan based companies, Novatek Microelectronics and Richtek Technology, as well as Capella Microsystems and Integrated Memory Logic. With the aid of these companies, Apple are hoping to come out with a low-cost slate housing low-cost hardware with the exception of one: the high-costing Retina display that may be used in the slate. Read more after the break.
Apple are aiming to balance out the overall cost of the new tablet from the high cost of the display with the low cost of its circuits and other cheaper parts. This will allow Apple to compete with other cheaper-than-the-iPad slates such as the Acer Eee Pad Transformer and other Acer tabs. However, all of this is yet to be officially confirmed by Apple. Another thing we may want confirmed is whether this next slate will actually be something of its own, or just a simple rendition of the iPad 2 with a fancy display.
via tablet-news
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