Those from AllThingsDigital have learned from sources inside the Apple company that the iPad 3 will be presented at the beginning of March and will contain a Retina screen (with resolution 2048 × 1536), will have the same design as the iPad 2 and will have a faster processor. The new tablet will have faster graphics and will be presented at a conference that will be organized by Apple at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the location where the iPad and iPad 2 were launched. The new product should be available a maximum of one week after the presentation of those from Apple, a credible thing considering that in the past the launches followed the same trajectory.
Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple's preferred location for big announcements like these. No word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that's what it's called), although my guess is retail availability will follow roughly the same schedule as that of the iPad 2: available for purchase a week or so after the event.
As for the next generation iPad itself, sources say it will be pretty much what we've been led to expect by the innumerable reports leading up to its release: A device similar in form factor to the iPad 2, but running a much faster chip , sporting an improved graphics processing unit and featuring a 2048×1536 Retina Display — or something close to it.
AllThindsDigital is Apple's "house newspaper" and all such information provided by them has proven to be 100% true in the past. Considering that in the Carrier Bundles for iOS 5.1 it was discovered that the new version of the operating system it could be available on March 9, it is possible that the tablet will be launched right then or at a later but not too distant date. It is very possible that the tablet iPad 3 to come with a dual-core processor and not a quad-core one, and those from AllThingsDigital refrained from saying the nature of the new processor, so it's possible that we won't see a processor with four cores from Apple this year.
