Engadget has got some “concrete” information from “reliable sources” that have told them that the iPad 2 will land in April and will sport a sleeker and thinner design with a higher resolution screen (still, not exactly like the one on iPhone 4) and surprisingly the device will feature a built in SD card slot and will not have a traditional USB slot. The device is obviously said to have dual cameras, one for taking pictures and videos and the other one for Facetime.
If this is not enough to warm you then then here’s what inside the beast.
The new iPad will feature a dual GSM / CDMA chipset produced by Qualcomm and will mark Apple’s shift away from Infineon as its chipset maker to Qualcomm for all of its mobile devices. It’s not clear if the chipset being used will be based on the company’s EV-DO / HSPA Gobi variety or an entirely new design. Presumably, the strength of the new dual-mode chipset is that it will allow both Verizon and AT&T to offer the iPad simultaneously.
Most of these revelations made by Engadget were obvious for everyone and we have been writing about these features for months, but the SD card slot thing comes to me as a shock too, because we have never seen a SD card slot on an iOS device, so that is going to be special.
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