Apple is getting ready to unleash another update to its iPad in March

Apple is getting ready to unleash another update to its iPad in March, but six months once launching the fourth iteration of its well-liked pill, a brand new report claims. The fifth-generation iPad is claimed to be lighter and smaller than the present model, probably with narrower facet bezels like those on the iPad mini.

In what certainly should be one in all the ultimate Apple-related rumors of 2012 and there are quite a couple of of them this year the Cupertino company is reportedly simply months off from unveiling one more update to its full-sized nine.7-inch iPad. The claim comes from Macotakara, a Japanese web site that has antecedently known as it right with variety of Apple-related predictions.

Macotakara says that per "an within source" the fifth-generation iPad are going to be undraped in March 2013, but six months once the launch of the present version. The updated device are going to be 2mm agent, 4mm shorter and 17mm narrower, a major decrease that seems to counsel the facet bezels of future iPad can correspond those of its brother, the iPad mini.

With the third- and fourth-generation iPads truly thicker and heavier than the iPad a pair of, you'll be able to bet engineers at Apple are viewing ways in which to shrink down the additional internal technical school needed to power the device's high-resolution tissue layer show so as to induce the pill backtrack to size.

The website did not note any under-the-hood changes we'd see with future version. the present iPad is power-driven by a one.3GHz A6X twin core processor, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera and 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, all of that may be improved upon future time the merchandise receives a refresh.

The expected March date makes a particular quantity of sense, with the primary 3 iterations of the iPad following a March/April unleash cycle. however might it very return thus shortly once the fourth-generation iPad, that launched simply last month? In many ways it's simple to examine that Apple would wish to maneuver towards a additional frequent unleash cycle, keen because it is to take care of its dominant position within the pill market.

Macotakara's report conjointly says the technical school big is presently acting on future iteration of Apple's smaller iPad, the Mini, expected to launch with a tissue layer show and quicker A6X processor.