Apple iPad 2 snapped in all its skinny glory A raft of pictures purporting to show the iPad 2 have popped up on the web just hours before the updated tablet will to be unveiled. The snaps come from Chinese-language site DGtle, which undoubtedly has access to the nation's notoriously leaky electronics factories. As we've seen many times before - most recently with the …
At first you appear to be correct, but a second glance at the pic suggests the screen has one of those removable screen protectors you get on new kit and usually peel off. So maybe they turned it on with that still in place and it looks slightly crappy / distorted as a result of that.
@"Look at the the first picture on the chinese website. The display isn't even square in the Bezel."
That's because if you look very closely, you'll see there's one more icon on that side and because of the weight of the extra pixels, its weighing it down on that side more!. ;)
On a more serious note, its most definitely not Photoshop. All companies produce prototypes including final pre-production prototypes. These photos are most likely of some nearly finished (and most likely fully functional) pre-production prototype. You can see from the image of the iPad laying down, its still got the same slant in the display even though its from another angle. In a hand assembled prototype there could easily be a bit of room to move the display around (or maybe it wasn't fixed into place enough, so it could have moved in the prototype during transport). When its the final production unit, which will be almost entirely machine manufactured, that won't happen.
Call me silly but I remember when the iPad came out the response even from the fans was something like, "It's just a big iPhone, without the phone part." And from most anyone else, "Why?" So fast forward a year or so and now it's another must have accessory because it's got a bigger screen than other tablets and it's Apple so you get to use all these fun apps. So now you're perpetually wiping your fingerprints off the screen and having to buy a case to protect it and finding out which app you really need to show you're both cool *and* productive.....meanwhile I just keep on with my laptop which has the same size screen, old school "programs" which is what apps are in the first place, and a keyboard to boot.
This pic on their site:
http://www.dgtle.com/data/attachment/forum/201103/01/042155ldddlbzlq6ddjsde.jpg
Had a very clear FCC ID which leads to:
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=258686&fcc_id=%27BCG-E2381A%27
the original iPad
It is a fake as the FCC id shown on it in the pictures BCG-E2381A is that for the original IPAD.
So they have just copied that from the original IPAD.
Any one can look up the FCC ID. Just Google FCC ID and look up the links.
Apples Grantee code is BCG and they have over 500 devices listed.
All that effort to fake it? Or maybe it's actually real. Looks real enough to me.
People saying it isn't thin need to take a closer look at the pictures. The total depth of it looks to be the same as the "slab" part of the original model, which then tapered outwards so was much thicker.
Even so, it's hardly groundbreaking and iOS is looking dated compared to WP7 with it's glorious UI and social networking integration.
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