Apple&'s new tablet &8212' iPad 2 &8212' will ship by the end of February and be available for sale in April, according to DigiTimes&' sources from Foxconn Electronics in Shenzhen, China, which manufactures most of Apple&'s products.
Sources who spoke to DigiTimes claimed that Apple has notified the factory plant to make initial shipments of 400,000 to 600,000 units within the next 100 days, pointing out that a postponement due to the device&'s firmware delayed production by a month. Additionally, they added that the company is likely to launch the device in April.
The iPad&'s first iteration, which launched in April this year, has defined the tablet market and caused a wave of manufacturers such as LG and Samsung to follow up with similar touch-screen devices. Fans and on-lookers have been curious to see what could be in store for the second iteration of the device, which TechCrunch reports is likely to have a front-facing camera and an‚ iPhone 4-like design.
Providing shipment data on the original iPad, the sources told DigiTimes that Foxconn had shipped 6 million units of the iPad to the company in the third quarter of the year, bringing the total number of devices shipped in 2010 to around 16 million.
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Companies: Apple, Foxconn
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