Continuing the series of rumors related to the tablet iPad 5, an American analyst who in the past had valid information about unreleased Apple products, says that the new tablet will be 15% thinner and 25% lighter than the iPad 4. Mass production of the tablet would begin at the end of summer, in August or at the end of September, with the launch taking place one month later. Practically iPad 5 it should be between 7.5 and 8 mm thick and only 500g in weight, a substantial reduction compared to the specifications iPad 4, which Apple has a habit of doing.
We think the tablet will, at 7.5-8.0mm, be 15% thinner than iPad 4. The new device will likely be about 500 grams, or some 25% lighter than iPad 4, run on an A7X processor, and sport cameras with similar specs to the iPad 4's (front HD, rear 5MP). The casing shape and color (silver and black) and narrow bezel design will be similar to the iPad mini's. We therefore think that iPad 5's battery capacity will be 25-30% smaller, at 8,500-9,000mAh, than iPad 4's, and the battery's thickness will be 15-20% smaller, at 7.5-8.0mm, and the number of cells will be reduced to two from three.
Regarding the tablet's hardware, it would work based on a chip A7X, produced using a 28nm manufacturing process, would have the same cameras as the iPad 4, but the interesting part is that the screen would be developed using GF2 technology, this change also bringing a significant reduction in consumption. The reduction in consumption also means a reduction in the size of the battery, so that iPad 5 it could be launched with an 8.500-9.000 mAh battery, a rather big difference compared to the 11.666 mAh that the iPad 4 tablet has.
Even if we are talking about simple speculations, they seem to be extremely plausible, especially when Apple has to come up with major changes in iPad 5, and the design seems to be the one that receives a large part of the attention.
