Apple iPad 3 likely to arrive in 3 months

There are chances of Apple planning to release the next generation of their iPad in the first quarter of next year. According to DigiTimes , sources within the supply chain for the company have started to ship out parts and components for Apple’s new tablet and they have claimed that the iPad 3 will arrive in the market in the next 3-4 months. Also, the OEM production of the iPad 2 will stay at 14-15 million units around the month of December following which it will slowly drop off to 4-5 million units in Q1 of 2012 to give way for the production and release of the iPad 3, a trend that Apple have followed for all their devices, so far. 

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The original iPad was launched in April 2010, whilst its successor, the iPad 2 was released in March 2011. If the timeline does have a similar pattern for the iPad 3, then the chances of us seeing the new tablet in the first quarter of 2012 are pretty high. That it’ll come; sooner or later, is what we’ll have to wait and see. What features do you think should be a pre-requisite in the iPad 3? Let us know in the comments section below.