According to the always reliable Digitimes, Apple is preparing three versions of the iPad 2 for 2011… but if you think they mean 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, think again. Digitimes thinks it means WiFi, 3G.. and a Verizon iPad.
According to Verizon’s sources, Apple’s looking to produce up to 530,000 iPad 2s in January that will be comprised of WiFi, UMTS/HSPA (re: AT&T) and CDMA (re: Verizon) units in a 3:4:3 split.
We’re pretty skeptical. CDMA is a pretty small market globally, and the idea that Apple would be dedicating 30% of future iPad production to a CDMA model when CDMA doesn’t even make up 30% of all mobile broadband users globally is a little rich.
But Digitimes’ simultaneous scoop that Apple’s working on improving the iPad 2’s anti-smudge and anti-reflective treatments? Pure gold!
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
