Apple iPad 2 Event Set For March 2: REPORT

Hold on to your hats, because the iPad 2 may be swooping in fast.

Kara Swisher of All Things D reports that Apple will hold a special event on Wednesday, March 2 in San Francisco, where it's possible that the followup to last year's breakout product will be announced.

Though invitations have yet to be mailed, Swisher has confirmed the event with "several sources close to the situation."

Since the unveiling of the original iPad in early 2010, there has been no shortage of speculation about the tablet's successor, unofficially called "iPad 2."

According to some of the rumors, the next iPad could feature front-facing and rear-facing cameras, as well as a slightly slimmer and lighter build. Customers may even have to choose between two separate versions of the device--one built specifically for AT&T's network and one for Verizon's.

If Kara Swisher's intel is correct, we have only to wait nine more days to see which of the rumors prove true--if any.

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Comments

[AndrewTaws]

04:43 AM on 02/24/2011

I cant waite to get an Ipad 2

http://talkinggadget.blogspot.com/

[Yotta]

06:50 PM on 02/23/2011

May God keep all of Apple's exploited Chinese workers safe from suicide during the production of the iPad 2.

[eatmygreeksalad]

02:03 AM on 02/24/2011

And may they save them from your computer, whose parts were made in China at the same factories.

[Yotta]

02:25 PM on 02/24/2011

LOL! Nope. Apple only makes its own garbage.

[Dennis Yuen]

11:29 AM on 02/23/2011

Finally, the wait is over. Time to blow my savings.

[JKraz]

10:32 AM on 02/23/2011

These articles are ridiculous.
Technically, they might be having an event. The company made no other announcement, and no details were given. So pundits weigh in with guesses of what the announcement will be.
Give it a break!
Yesterday, I saw an article "iPhone 5 will be delayed..." Really? How could you define "delay" if an introduction date was never given? In fact, technically, no one ever said or promised an iPhone 5 was even scheduled! Maybe they just crank out iPhone 4's forever?
Sounds like a lot of stock manipulation! LOL

[Thomas River]

11:42 AM on 02/23/2011

Apple has been loyal to an annual release cycle on iPhones for 5 years now. Its more than reasonable to expect a continuation on both iPhone and now iPads.

[JKraz]

03:35 PM on 02/23/2011

sure, that's reasonable, but it isn't a guarantee, to the point that news outlets can call something a "delay", (an event that has not been announced officially. How can it be delayed?)

[Yotta]

09:45 AM on 02/23/2011

Actually, it's called "planned obsolescence".
Apple scheduled the ipad 2 release before they released ipad 1.
And, no doubt, the ipad 3 release is already scheduled.

[eatmygreeksalad]

02:04 AM on 02/24/2011

I'm still ticked that my commodore 64 is obsolete. What were they thinking?

rip off.

[Laura Antonia Freeman]

08:48 AM on 02/23/2011

It figures I already bought mine and now they decide to release a brand new one....

[CynicalAgnostic]

11:20 AM on 02/23/2011

And Apple allegedly releasing a new product a year after it's last comes as a suprise or a shock to you?

[CynicalAgnostic]

11:25 AM on 02/23/2011

*surprise

pfft

[EveAngel]

09:41 PM on 02/23/2011

sell your iPad1 to me cheap and go buy your iPad2 at full price. Next year, we can meet back here and do it again! :)

[Hakeem Kareem]

08:30 AM on 02/23/2011

I love Apple products but they are not really helping our economy by producing their products in China.

[eatmygreeksalad]

02:24 AM on 02/24/2011

What about all the people that Apple employs in their stores? What about all the people who write apps? What about the people working in advertising the product? What about the people who are designing the OS? What about the people who designed the thing in the first place?

And what about all the other companies that have jumped on the tablet band wagon now that Apple has made a product that sold 15 million units last year?

The iPad helps me in my business. How is that not helping our economy?

[argh38]

11:07 AM on 02/24/2011

Name a single tech company that produces their products in America. Not just assembles- all the materials, every single port and wire- made in America. Name ANY company that meets those standards- clothes, cars, toys, dog food. This is unfortunately the world we live in. Why are you holding Apple to a higher standard than every other company in America?

[Yotta]

08:17 AM on 02/23/2011

Wow, ipad 1 isn't even a year old, who can doubt that Apple Corp is built on sucker consumers?

[Daws]

08:59 AM on 02/23/2011

Tech updates fast. This isn't anything new.

[JKraz]

09:50 AM on 02/23/2011

iPad was introduced over a year ago.
But I guess you want some tablet from 5 years ago, that held true to it's consumers and hasn't changed. Sure you do.

[Yotta]

05:57 PM on 02/23/2011

Apple released the iPad in April 2010, you M>O>R>O>N.

[Anton Alexandru]

07:53 AM on 02/23/2011

This Kindle gadget has really helped me keep my agenda! Visit http://www.kindle2000.com/ !

[SwimUpstream]

07:38 AM on 02/23/2011

I'll buy it as soon as you make it in the USA

[JKraz]

09:50 AM on 02/23/2011

What did you post this comment using?

[CynicalAgnostic]

11:21 AM on 02/23/2011

Maybe you wanna try holding your breath while you wait.

[Flying Dutchman]

06:38 AM on 02/23/2011

How much does Apple pays Huffingtonpost to publish these advertisements, or are you guys still copy/pasting those Apple press releases?

[straitback]

06:22 AM on 02/23/2011

Start lining up now, suckers!

[billsmith98]

09:07 AM on 02/23/2011

Already am, I can't help myself

Sent from my iPad.

[eatmygreeksalad]

02:25 AM on 02/24/2011

I'm lining up right in front of the losers.

[HamburgerTime]

05:02 AM on 02/23/2011

Let me guess, it'll be a little bit bigger, thinner, and still have a horrible battery life?

[jusjrad]

08:04 AM on 02/23/2011

Horrible battery life? Please show me another tablet of it's size that has better.

[Hakeem Kareem]

08:27 AM on 02/23/2011

Horrible battery life? You probably carry an "iPad" made by Microsoft and not Apple.

[WonderfulElena]

04:56 AM on 02/23/2011

if you have a smartphone its hard to see how a tablet would be worth getting

[jacksonbroder]

06:30 AM on 02/23/2011

If you want to do it for work related tasks then tablets are far more useful. I can keep spreadsheets on it (you can on smartphones but they're too small and awkward to navigate), and reading on them is better.

[WonderfulElena]

08:05 AM on 02/23/2011

how? most tablets dont have higher resolution screens than cell phones do they, other than ipad

[Daws]

09:02 AM on 02/23/2011

For you perhaps. I don't want to web surf, read ebooks, watch videos, and do word processing on my smartphone.

[WonderfulElena]

09:18 AM on 02/23/2011

thats why you have a computer

[IOguy]

04:53 AM on 02/23/2011

I have a non-3G capable Ipad. Great investment. I am able to do work on it, and I have 20+ books downloaded for travel as well as all of my music and some time waster games. That being said, I do not see myself buying the v2 anytime soon. Maybe when v3 comes out...