14 DAY TRIAL // An alleged iPad 3 part leaked to an Asian source may indicate that Apple is planning to do away with the standard 30-pin dock connector found on all of its iDevices today.
Allegedly scheduled for an early 2012 launch, Apple’s next iPad will have the same screen size as the current generation of tablet computers, but it is unclear whether the display will be Retina (2048x1536 pixels).
What the sources do believe is that we will see a redesign of the dock connector. Their findings indicate that Apple will be adopting a smaller design, creating incompatibility problems with the rest of the iDevice lineup.
Apple has been rumored in the past to ditch the standard Dock connector used by its iPhone and iPod touch players. This new iPad is said to be slated for March 2012 at the earliest.