Analysts Claim LTE-Enabled iPad Arriving Before the Holidays

I'm going to say NO.

Analysts.

My feelings about apple changing the ipad again is not the same as the other commentators here. And yeah I recently purchased a 3G iPad2.

To me this is a rapidly evolving technology and if indeed apple does refresh them after only 6-9months after the intro, i think I'm actually more glad than annoyed. Like other people commenting here I really love having the latest and greatest. Yeah, when the ipad2 came out, I bought an ipad1 at a reduced price (remember how apple reduced them in the first week?) and after having it for a week, decided I really wanted the 2nd edition and returned it (full refund) and got the other at full price.

So it has been maybe 3 months now of great experience. But just like the limitations of the 1st edition prevented some of the new programs like imovie and some others from being a polished app ready for that machine, I can already see how the ipad2 limitations is holding back innovation in the app market. And frankly I am enthusiastic about Apple's leadership here getting this type of device so rapidly in our faces without clear evidence it would succeed. And also am aghast at the copycat attempts to catch up thinking that it is the hardware that they need to make better while pushing incomplete and buggy software out.

So yeah I'm cheering Apple for having gotten me hooked on this great device and if they can speed up the product development timeline due to the competition out there - in other words they are aggressively responding (a far cry from being stymied by behind trapped into AT&T exclusivity and threatening market share erosion by Android which had a field day on CDMA networks) - then I say this is the price we pay for this level of sped up R&D that in the end we'll all benefit from.

Besides, who says you have to update every single refresh cycle. Sit and gloat, knowing you'll pass up on the next one and instead wait for the one after that, passing up those who got that next one. how's that?!

They can't keep up with demand as it is. Most markets don't even have LTE yet. I wouldn't count on any updates until 2012.

If they do release an LTE iPad, hopefully it'll replace the existing GSM and CDMA iPads. The last thing we need is separate WiFi, GSM, CDMA, LTE models each in 2 colors and 3 capacities.

Who the heck are these "analysts" and what the hell do they know?!

I mean really, have any "analysts" been right? Other than seeing a leaked photo and then giving their thoughts?

Analysts: your mouths are writing "checks" thats your butt cant cash.

Plus how can you determine when the next iPad will be released if we are still fumbling back and forth the the iPhone 4s release for August/September??

The analysts are kind enough to enlighten us once again...

New iPad before the Holiday's would be another home run for Apple, and would surely drive the spec chasing competition insane.

That alone would be enough for me (if I were Apple) to make it happen.

Adding an LTE version could be done at any time, since the radio board is a separate plugin on the iPad.

The question is, would Apple do that with the current model (like the GSM or CDMA versions), or use the opportunity to bump some specs at the same time. Could go either way.