Apple Prepares 16-Inch iPad, Launching Late in 2023?
The latest 16-inch iPad is rumored to be launching in the fourth quarter of 2023. In other words, the new tablet will be released at the end of 2023.
Reports regarding the planned release of the latest 16-inch iPad presented by The Informationlike The telephone quote from Apple InsiderThursday (27/10/2022).
Rumors of an iPad larger than the 12.9-inch model have been circulating online for years, although Apple itself has never confirmed anything.
The latest leak comes from The Information, which claims to be familiar with Apple’s product plans. These leakers claim the future iPad with a larger size will launch at the end of 2023.
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The Information says that Apple may reveal the 16-inch iPad in the fourth quarter of 2023. However, they warned that the date could still change.
Even so, according to The Information source, that the development of the latest tablet product could have been stopped by Apple. There’s been a lot of speculation about a larger iPad model.
However, until now, credible evidence has not emerged. The leaker is referring to an iPad with no name attached, but a possible iPad Pro.
In 2021, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg suggest that a larger iPad Pro will hit the market in a few years as early as the next few years.
In June 2022, a different leak from display supply chain analyst Ross Young suggested that a 14-inch iPad might be coming instead of the Pro model.
Either a 14-inch iPad or a 16-inch iPad could exist. Or, even both exist because the screen size corresponds to the product that was previously available.
Apple’s Liquid Retina XDR display used in the 12.9-inch iPad Pro tablet is already available on the 14-inch MacBook Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops.
Apple updated its iPad Pro lineup in October 2022 with an M2 processor and a few other notes. The update left Apple fans confused.
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Because the redesigned 10.9-inch iPad gets a new landscape FaceTime camera, but not the iPad Pro. iPad Pros tend to be updated in 18-month cycles.
This means that the announcement of the fourth quarter of 2023 will be earlier than Apple’s normal schedule. However, the new screen size may warrant an earlier announcement than usual. [SN/HBS]
