It’s already insane how thin an iPad 2 is — even thinner than the iPhone 4 — but come 2012, you’re about to see them get a lot thinner, thanks to some svelte battery packs that should shave up to 30% off the total footprint of the iPad 3.
Taiwan Economic News reports:
With the upcoming iPad 3 to feature a thinner, lighter battery module that is widely believed to be priced 20-30% higher than iPad 2’s, Simplo Technology Co. and Dynapack International Technology Corp., both Apple Inc.’s contract suppliers of iPad and Macbook battery packs, will hence secure a surefire profit drive for the near future.
Institutional investors pointed out that the battery pack for iPad 3, scheduled to be massively produced in the first quarter of next year, has been redesigned to be thinner and lighter with a longer service life than iPad 2 edition’s/
How much thinner can Apple even make the iPad 3, anyway? Will the next one waver like a piece of paper?.