iPad 3: Release date, bigger battery, retina, but no quad-core

The iPad 3 release date is rumored to be later this month, as new images appear of the casing. This gives new clues as to Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) plans for what some are calling iPad HD. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers corral the rumors.

The anonymous RepairLabs gnomes breathlessly blog below:

[T]hanks to industry insiders in China..we are able to tell you just what to expect when Apple announces the iPad 3.
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You can see here that the mounts for the logic board are very different..allowing for more battery. .. [We] can expect..a different camera on the iPad 3. .. [The] different mounting does mean that the LCD has been redesigned. .. [But] our insiders tell us that..the screen..has not been signed off or that it is being kept top secret.   Joshua Topolsky has his own sauces:

[M]ost of what the image shows lines up with news we've been hearing from our sources. .. [The] new iPad will be touting..a true iPad Retina Display, clocking in at 2048 x 1536..but the slate will be about one millimeter thicker [and] will include a significantly more powerful GPU.
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What is surprising, however, is that our sources say that the A6 will not be a quad-core.
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As far as timing goes, everything we've heard thus far suggests that a February announcement is not happening. .. [But t]here are 29 days in February this year..and the 29th falls on a Wednesday (the day on which Apple has announced every..iPad).What Anthony Tsai is saying here seems a little lost in (Google) translation:

But security or to share with everyone the different points of the diagram in order to let to this all day waiting for friends disappointed that foreign websites have PO iPad3 back cover of the map this is foreign Web sites certain foreigners in private to me Figure asked me to forward everyone has seen the inside of iPad3 behind the map, but the back of the following figure you can see iPad3 on the back actually looks almost with iPad2 originally thought the facelift friends really disappointed following another iPad3 magnet picture know iPad3 is also not too changes with the iPad2. 

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