If you are getting ready to upgrade your iPad situation at some point in the future, then you may be keeping tabs on what analysts and rumors are saying about two upcoming models, the 10.8-inch iPad and 8.5-inch iPad mini.
The rumor mill is telling us we should be expecting small redesigns for the iPad Air and iPad mini, and that Apple is working on an iMac with an iPad Pro design aesthetic. But we may have to wait a bit longer before these new devices actually launch.
The next iPad Air should become the second Apple tablet to swap the company's proprietary Lightning port with the more ubiquitous USB-C protocol. At the same time, the upcoming iPad mini refresh should retain Lightning I/O.
If you believe the rumor mill, Apple is still working on a pair of augmented reality glasses, lovingly called Apple Glasses right now, and they could debut in the next couple of years.
There have been rumors swirling around for quite some time that Apple is planning to switch to mini-LED display designs for future products. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is here to keep those fires burning.
Apple's registered a pair of unreleased iPads bearing the model identifiers A2200 and A2232, running iPadOS, suggesting launch this fall. Earlier this month, five other identifiers referring to unreleased iPad models were added to the Eurasian Economic Commission database.
We saw leaks before suggesting that a fifth-generation iPad mini might look virutally indistigusihable from the current model and now a pair of reports published Tuesday have indicated that the upcoming device will be just a specifications bump.
Aside from that long-expected fifth-generation iPad mini, Apple's tablet plans for the 2019 calendar year apparently include two new iPad Pro models with upgraded processors along with a refreshed $329 iPad with a slightly bigger display.
Second-generation AirPods wireless earphones along with AirPower, Apple's long-expected multi-device Qi wireless charging mat, a fifth-generation iPad mini and an inexpensive 9.7-inch iPad are all thought to be announced in March ahead of launch on Friday, March 29, 2019.
According to a new supply chain rumored published on Monday, Apple's fifth-generation iPad mini is expected to look the same as the iPad mini 4 design.
Taiwanese contract manufacturer Compal Electronics is expected to build Apple's fifth-generation iPad mini tablet that should arrive "later in 2019".
Apple will reportedly give its mainstream sixth-generation iPad, which costs just $329, a bit bigger screen going from 9.7 inches to ten inches. And to cover as wide a price range as possible, the Cupertino firm will release a cheaper iPad mini model, sources claim.