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Apple Readies iPad With Quad-Core Chip, LTE, Says Bloomberg
Posted by Tiernan Ray
Bloomberg’s Tim Culpan, Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano this afternoon write that Apple (AAPL) is getting ready to debut an “iPad 3,” which will have a quad-core chip, and will use higher-speed 4G wireless access based on the “Long Term Evolution,” or LTE, standard, citing three anonymous sources.

The authors state Apple is expected to reach full production next month, for sale of the device in March. The screen is expected to have a sharper resolution — perhaps along the lines of the “retina display” on the iPhone, I would imagine — and the larger battery of the iPad compared to the iPhone is said by sources to allow for more uptime on energy-hungry LTE connections than do most smartphones, which tend to drain quickly under the pressure of 4G