A few weeks ago I told you that The iPad Mini will be as thin as the current iPod Touches, and now an analyst says a technology popularly known as GF2 would be behind this revolution. GF Ditto is the real name of the technology and it replaces the G/G touch structure technology that Apple now uses to produce iPad 3 screens. By using GF2 Apple will significantly reduce the thickness of the tablet screen, releasing possibly the thinnest touch panel of a tablet ever produced at the industrial farm.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with KGI Securities said in a research note issued on Friday that the so-called "iPad mini" will feature industry leading "GF Ditto," otherwise known as GF2, touchscreen technology. He said that Apple will be the first company in the world to commercialize and mass produce GF Ditto technology. The iPad mini will be about as thin as Apple's next-generation iPhone, according to Kuo. He estimates that the iPad mini's panel thickness will be below 2.2 millimeters alone, or below 4.2 millimeters including the printed circuit board — both numbers that he said are thinner than the average tablet on the market today.
Of course, producing such thin screens is not easy, so Apple's partners would have trouble manufacturing enough units for the fall launch, but Apple will surely have enough iPad Mini in stock to meet market demand. At the end, the analyst says that iPad Mini it will have an HD front camera and a 5 megapixel main camera, probably the famous iSight from iPad 3. How much of this information will be true we will only find out in October.
