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iPad 3 Release Date And Price, The iPad 4 And iTV: This Week In Apple Rumors

First Posted: 01/08/12 10:21 PM ET   Updated: 01/08/12 10:21 PM ET

Every week the numerous blogs covering the machinations of the Apple empire float tons of unconfirmed rumors, futuristic speculation and questionably-sourced reports on what the company might be unveiling in the near or distant future. Let's take a look back at what the Mac blogs were excited about for the past two weeks, from December 25 - January 7. Check out previous Apple rumors here, and for all the latest, follow me on Twitter here.

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Yes, that's right. Just like they did with the iPhone 5, everybody on the Internet knows everything about the iPad 3. Let us drink in their collective wisdom:

First, there is this series of notes from an iLounge source, who says that the iPad 3 will be a millimeter thicker, have improved cameras and will be more like an "iPad 2 Pro," rather than a totally redesigned machine.

Second, Taiwanese rumor factory Digitimes hears from its "sources in Apple's supply chain" that the company just might use a new type of display panel (IGZO, or indium gallium zinc oxide (his name is my name too)) in order to achieve a thinner, less power-hungry tablet.

To sum up, the iPad 3 will either be thinner or thicker than the iPad 2, unless it is simultaneously both, in which case I will simply defenestrate myself.

Defenestrate myself, I say.

Other iPad 3 specs stories: Mac Rumors found a sweet pic on a Korean message board of what might be the iPad 3 display (disembodied iPad display screens!); Macotakara has what it claims are the Mic Flex Cable Ribbon and the Power On/Off Flex Cable for the iPad 3 (disemboweled iPad3!); and, in what must be the least exciting iPad 3 story of all time, 9to5Mac has -- wait for it -- what just might be the home buttons on the next iPad. Yes, the home buttons.

The home buttons. The home buttons.

No, the home buttons don't tell us much, but to wrap-up the iPad 3 design consensus: It is going to have a Retina Display screen, upping the resolution from 1024 x 768 to 2048 x 1536, but there will probably not be any major design changes to the body. Rumors that the iPad 3 will have a slightly thicker frame to support the Retina Display have been persistent but are, so far, thinly sourced and far from conclusive.

Anyway, now that we've covered purported photos of the iPad 3 home buttons (sigh), let's move on to something else everyone knows about: the iPad 3's release date. Speculation machine, take us to the next slide!
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Every week the numerous blogs covering the machinations of the Apple empire float tons of unconfirmed rumors, futuristic speculation and questionably-sourced reports on what the company might be unvei...
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dasha 243
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02:23 PM on 02/01/2012
how much will it cost
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ESJ247
I eat micro-bio with milk.
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11:24 AM on 01/14/2012
Siri on a TV won't be that big of a deal because, lets face it, do you really want to talk to your TV when scrolling through shows? It's a nice addition, but you will still need a remote for times when you need to be quiet. But if any company can pull it off, it would be Apple.
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10:57 AM on 01/13/2012
So the iPad3 will almost be as cool as the ASUS Transformer Prime, but with a shorter battery life, no expandability and still no way to transfer files to it without that pesky iTunes virus on your PC?

Nope. Still going to get the Transformer Prime. Sorry Apple. Your products are too closed minded and restricted.
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julesmu84
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12:49 AM on 01/10/2012
Man, I was hoping for some intel on the new Sweet Tango™...duped again!
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Tmiley
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12:03 AM on 01/10/2012
I was going to buy it, if it had a 4 core processor and I thought it had to, to have a retina display, but I am beginning to believe it will be very much like Ipad 2 with higher resolution. If they are staying with the A5 processor, they will let Ipad 2 and 3 have Siri. I have been reading about problems with the A6 and it has caused a delay in putting it in the Ipad 3.
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foxbatt211
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10:54 PM on 01/09/2012
Another thing you can always count on with Apple, if they built an Apple store at the South Pole it would be packed in June.
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foxbatt211
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10:49 PM on 01/09/2012
The one thing we can always count on. If its an Apple rumor, its not true.
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ashumate3
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08:19 PM on 01/09/2012
I guess the rumors are keeping Apple in the news. That is the only thing that keeps Apple alive is the little Do Dads they make – They lost the desk PC Business a long time ago due to them not being very foresightful about industry.
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Pectin
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10:58 PM on 01/13/2012
Boy, are you wrong.
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ashumate3
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05:40 AM on 01/14/2012
And just how am I wrong? Industries ask Apple many years ago to open their architecture to allow for interface with industrial equipment and Apple told them that they were not interested. Allen/Bradley, Westinghouse, Modicon along with many others and companies in chemicals, textiles and the whole spectrum ask and many of these were using Apples in the office. Bill Gates kept improving Windows and IBM architecture was out there and so many companies ask why are we using Apples to type letters and draw and another system to talk to plant equipment? I was in the industry when this was going on and was a member of ISA (Instrument (As in industrial instrumentation) Society of America)
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ESJ247
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11:17 AM on 01/14/2012
You think the iPhone and iPad are little do dads?
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phdpamela
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05:37 PM on 01/09/2012
I find it hilarious, that people whined about tv being so small. Now we have huge screens. Now we're going back to small tiny stuff. Voice recognition? We have some REAL lazy people out there.
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wla2000
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04:45 PM on 01/09/2012
I haven't seen the word 'defenestrate' in print since it was probably coined by TIME magazine about 45 years ago! For the record, it means to throw yorself out a window! Wheeee....
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HappyBrit
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05:29 PM on 01/09/2012
First coined in 1618. Sorry, Time Magazine.
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Quai DOrsay
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04:19 PM on 01/09/2012
Wake me up when they make the Apple 12 ... I don't need Apple 3 or 4
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ricchh
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03:17 PM on 01/09/2012
Year ago, news stories had to be based on hard facts from reliable proven sources. Hearsay, and speculation is called tabloid.
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nomac
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02:33 PM on 01/09/2012
reporting rumors as news debases and devalues any factual news postings on this site
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Pectin
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04:07 PM on 01/09/2012
What factual news postings?
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JulesWinfield
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01:39 PM on 01/09/2012
Any rumor with the word "DigiTimes" in it can be safely ignored.

They are about as reliable as these so-called analysts who like to guess what Apple (and other companies) are up to.
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01:02 PM on 01/09/2012
i-Pad 2 Pro that set off the BS meter, no such thing.
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