Oh look, what's this? The
Wall Street Journal is reporting that the iPad 2 has entered production -- which exactly lines up
previously rumored manufacturing schedules. According to the
WSJ, the new edition of Apple's tablet will have
a faster processor with a better GPU and more memory in a thinner, lighter package. There's also said to be a front-facing camera for video conferencing, but the much-discussed display resolution will remain "similar" to the current iPad -- which actually goes along with the most recent information we've gotten from our sources, who say that the next iPad will indeed stay at the current resolution, and that the
higher-res display we'd heard about earlier may have actually been for a future model. As for availability, the
WSJ says the new iPad will be on Verizon and AT&T, which certainly makes sense -- although it'll be interesting to see how Verizon handles positioning it against the upcoming Xoom, which Motorola is marketing
in an aggressively anti-iPad manner. In any event, between the iPad 2, the Xoom, and
whatever Palm has to offer tomorrow, this spring is about to get very, very interesting.
