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Chinese gadget site, MIC Gadget, has got its hands on some leaked front and rear plates, plus other bits and pieces, of the supposed iPad 3 and put them together. Unsurprisingly, the franken-gutless-iPad it looks just like an iPad 2, if a tad thicker, complete with a physical home button.
Of course, the leaked parts could be nothing like Apple’s next generation iPad, so take this with the appropriate mountain of salt, but it certainly looks legit. According to MIC Gadget, Apple’s current Smart Cover fits fine, but tight-fitting skins and other third-party cases do not.
Whether or not MIC Gadget is on the money here, we won’t have long to wait to find out, just till 6pm Wednesday. In the meantime, check out MIC Gadget’s electropop-infused video of every leaked part it’s managed to get its hands on below. [MIC Gadget via MacRumors]
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Looks like another snoozefest on Weds then.
When was the last exciting Apple launch? iPad 1 I guess. I’m as guilty as anyone of looking at the rumour sites, but they do ruin the fun – not that it looks like there is much fun to ruin…
Apple seem to be taking less and less risks these days. I guess that they don’t want to upset their golden goose and are happy just to keep raking in the cash.
Can’t blame them, but it’s pretty boring for us tech fans.
What else can you want from a rectangle? The form is already perfect. It’s about the brains and the software now.
You could say that about phones too, but the iPhone4 looks alot different to the pervious iPhone’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9s2oYUy_cVY#!
Call me when they make something remotely like this haha. Apple are just being boring now.
Poor show, Apple, for leaking your bits and having them on show.
Who cares if it looks the same… The interesting bits are the internals and those are very much missing in action….
I agree! It does however go against everything last week that indicated no physical home button……
The “no home button” rumour had been doing the rounds for a while but I’m not surprised it is still there in this version of the ipad. Maybe the iPad HD4S will finally see the end to the home button. Personally I’m glad it’s still there.
OMG how exciting and unexpected that it looks like an iPad! Didn’t see that one coming.
Great by Wednesday it’ll all be assembled and working
At least they’ll have one working model for Tim to show us
When will they get rid of the horrible Bezel?
I used to think the bezel was ugly and that they should trim it down until I used one, it is totally necessary to make it comfortable to hold, you wouldn’t want the bezel any thinner.
I like how everyone’s commenting as if this is really it, this is the definitive article and it’s only a matter of hours until Tim Cook holds this up on stage.
Just quit whining ffs. I seem to recall quite a few keynotes where Apple has announced something that is completely different to the stuff leaked just days before.