Photos of Debug Software Show Alleged Details of iPad 3 with Quad-Core A6 and LTE

As it appears, this is not a retina display, unfortunately. I can literally see the pixels in the picture.

So I believe there are two possibilities:
1) The next-gen iPad won't have a higher resolution display and this info is correct
2) This is a second generation iPad and this debug software is fake

Interesting. :)

Errr it's not photos of an iPad's screen though...
Looks like photos of a Mac's screen.

As it appears, this is not a retina display, unfortunately. I can literally see the pixels in the picture.

So I believe there are two possibilities:
1) The next-gen iPad won't have a higher resolution display and this info is correct
2) This is a second generation iPad and this debug software is fake

Interesting. :)

The display is from a Mac...

Am I going to pay my groceries with an iPad? It is better with the credit card!

I think you are confusing NFC with LTE.

I didn't know that. When I saw the black border, I was thinking of the iPad.
If it's from a Mac, anything is possible.

The 'black' border is the standard OSX Lion background :D
Let's hope the event announcement is soon

Few things

1) There's nothing to substantiate LTE in this article. They are reporting old rumors.

2) The source claims to be in possession of an iPad 3 prototype. Why would we get pictures of code but not the prototype? If they say they have the prototype and are providing code, that's just as incriminating as the prototype.

3) If the processor variant is real, then it does make sense for it to be a quad core A9. They went from ____30 to ____40 between A4 and A5, which saw an architecture change. This one is _____45, suggesting it is similar to the _____40 rather than being a whole new SoC. Perhaps quad core A9 and SGX543MP4 on a 32/28nm process?

A big question in my mind will be whether the A6 will be Cortex A-15 based or A-9 based.

A5 is Cortex A9, as is nVidia's Tegra2 (dual-core) and Tegra3 (quad-core).

All things being equal, Cortex A-15 is 40% faster than Cortex A-9... when you add 2 other dies on as well as I'm sure a faster GPU, the A6 could be one hell of a processor (though still 32-bit, as it is still ARM v7 instruction set based).

There's no reason to push for a change to ARM's 64 bit instruction set. Wider data paths are expensive, especially for mobile devices. They are especially helped by memory that is much faster than it was around 2002 when AMD was introducing their 64 bit architecture. You can get sufficient bandwidth without increasing data bus width. It's just too expensive overall where efficiency is the name of the game.

Not impressed, I could fake that up too. It's a freaking TextEdit document on Lion.

iBoot? Seriously? I hope BGR didn't pay to much for these images, cause they got scammed.

As much as I would like for it to be real I'm going to call fakety fake fake fake, until we get to an actual Apple press event.

I hope you do understand that "iBoot" is the name of the iOS bootrom, which is in charge allowing the device to boot and initialized all the peripherials and some hardware components. They didn't just make this up.

As it appears, this is not a retina display, unfortunately. I can literally see the pixels in the picture.

Nobody said this was a screenshot from the iPad 3 though.

Oh boy! Here we go!

Told ya (LTE that is).

https://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=13997340&postcount=79

A broken clock is right twice a day.

There will be no iPad 3. Apple will release the iPad 3.1415926 just to bake our brains.

Edited to say: I don't think it will have USB 3 for the reason that I don't know of any Macs that have USB 3. If you don't have anything to plug the port into, why put in the port.