Although these leaked images should be taken with a huge grain of salt, multiple photos purporting to be the rear aluminum shell of the second-generation iPad mini have leaked online, showing the next mini to be slightly thicker than the existing model… highly suggestive of the next iPad mini having a Retina display.
The photos originally come from Chinese site WeiPhone, and while unverified, the site has had some success in the past with component leaks.
There’s not a lot to go on in these images, but they show an iPad mini shell that is slightly thicker than the current iPad mini shell. When the third-gen iPad came out with a Retina Display, it saw a similar increase in thickness.
Here are some more images:
What do you think? Are they real, or is this a fake? Tell us in the comments.
Source: MobilesPie
Thanks: Jose S.
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.
