iPad 2 Rumor: Three Models Coming?

According to the latest iPad rumor, the next iPad will be available in three, count em, one... two.... three versions. This includes, besides the current Wi-Fi only and UMTS models, a new Verizon CDMA model.

According to a report by Digitimes, Apple will be bolstering the next iPad's screen by making it less susceptible to scratches and smudges, as well as making it more anti-reflective. Unfortunately, however, once again Apple was forced to pass on using active-matrix organic LED screens due to constrained supplies.

AppleInsider noted from the report that, "Sources estimated that Apple will produce about 40 million iPads in 2011, accounting for as much as three-quarters of the tablet market. That estimate is significantly lower than the 6 million per month capacity reported by DigiTimes earlier this month."

With the year just about finished and with only a few days remaining, one thing is for sure...... we don't have to wait much longer to find out if this latest rumor is true or false. Rumors are fun, but they are just that rumors and nothing more. All we know for sure is that there will be a new iPad 2, just as surely as it will be followed by an iPad 3, etc.

I do know what I would like to see, however. The very first thing on my list would be memory and increased storage. Lots and lots of it too, because, for one thing, 256Mbytes is nice and all, and maybe at one time it was even mind-blowing, but not any more. As far as I'm concerned you can never have enough memory, so, hopefully, the very next iPad will include at least a doubling, no, make that a quadrupling of its present memory and storage, if not more so!

Second on my wish list would be that the next iPad would include a radically new, faster and more powerful cpu with multiple cores! Yeah baby, now where talking, because just like memory or storage, you can never, and I mean never, really have enough cpu juice under the hood.

Thirdly, my next iPad wish would be to see Apple get even more aggressive on the pricing and to the degree that it would put the fear of God in the hearts of all its competitors while, at the same time, cheering the hearts of consumers everywhere. In the PC world, a world that offers a lot of copying but very little innovation, the biggest selling point is often simply the price.... the lower.... the better! Apple doesn't need, nor should it, revert to selling iPad's at the lowest denominator, but it should be low enough to make consumers think twice before purchasing a lower priced, lower quality Android, WebOS or Windows based tablet elsewhere.

In conclusion, I don't know if I'll get any of my next iPad wish's fulfilled, but, hopefully, I will, and, in addition, maybe, who knows, even a lot more pleasant iPad specs and features thrown in the mix as well.

And that's my 2 cents 4 this very snowy, windy Tuesday, December the 28th., 2010