iPad 5 would be officially launched on the market sometime in October of this year, and the first rumors indicate that it would be thinner than the current tablet iPad 4. According to those from Digitimes, Apple would implement in iPad 5 technology G/F2 for the manufacture of screens, allowing a substantial reduction of them. iPad 3 si iPad 4 they are thicker than the iPad 2 because of the implementation Retina Display, and the larger battery required to provide the power required for its operation, and the G/F2 technology should change everything.
Apple's next generation 9.7-inch iPad will reportedly use the same G/F2 (DITO) thin-film type touch screen structure as the company's iPad mini in order to make the device thinner and lighter, according to industry sources. The sources said Apple's move to use DITO technology shows the company is looking to bump up its competition in the tablet segment and that it has more adequate supply to the technology compared to one-glass-solution (OGS) technology.
An iPad 5 tablet, thinner and slightly smaller than the iPad 4, but with a screen as large and with the same quality, would give Apple the opportunity to attract the attention of the whole world and the trust of more consumers. The iPad 5 would have the iPad Mini design and could look exactly like the image above, with its screen having very thin black edges, but for now we are only talking about rumours.
