Details on new battery suggest thinner, lighter iPad 3 design

By on Sep 6, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Tablets September 6, 2011

Apple has secured Simplo Technology Co. and Dynapack International Technology Corp. to supply battery packs for the vendor’s upcoming iPad 3 tablet, Taiwan Economic News reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the new batteries will be thinner and lighter than the modules used in Apple’s current iPad 2 models, and Apple’s cost for the power packs will apparently jump by between 20% and 30% as a result. The report also states that Apple’s new iPad 3 batteries will feature a longer service life than the previous-generation packs used in the iPad 2. A thinner, lighter battery could mean Apple is conserving space for a new beefier Retina Display, or it could mean Apple is slimming down the iPad 3 case from the iPad 2′s already-svelte 0.34-inch-thick profile. Apple is expected to launch the iPad 3 early next year.

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  • Anonymous

    How shocking! I expected iPad 3 to be thicker and heavier. Thanks for the great article. NOT !

    • Anonymous

      lol.

      btw, thinner doesn’t mean better after a certain point.  After the ipad gets REALLY light, I can see the bloggers saying its too light and cheap feeling…./sarcasm.  (Seriously though, they complain about the lightness of the SGSII) so why wouldn’t they complain about apple….oh wait.

      • Anonymous

        ,.,wwow, I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prîces at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HDTV to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for.
        I use EgoWîn.com

    • TalkWithYourClicks

      “I’ll stop doing it when you stop laughing.”

    • Roflmao

      Thanks for the great and informative comment! NOT. 

      If you don’t want to read Apple articles, then don’t fucking click them! So damn simple, yet you turds keep spamming Apple articles and BGR with nonsensical comments that improve human intelligence not one bit. 

      And if the case is that you yourself have become such a good analyst of future Apple products, then why don’t you stop visiting these tech sites? You’ll save yourself some time.  

      • http://rendion.myopenid.com/ render

        DO you know that in being so heavy handed at attacking a troll you can actually become a troll yourself?

      • Roflmao

        It was a very necessary and calculated risk I was willing to take. 

    • Anonymous

      There is no way to please some of the people on these forums. The issue here is not that it’s just thinner and lighter, it’s the new battery tech behind it. If Apple can introduce a battery life draining Retina display while keeping the same battery life with a smaller battery it’s nothing short of a technological miracle.

      I honestly don’t get some comments. At least in another 3 years Android users will get the same tech and will say that it wasn’t copied from Apple.

      • http://rendion.myopenid.com/ render

        Why do you worry about people in these forums “being pleased”, are you some kind of sociopath control freak that requires people to comment according to your liking?

  • http://twitter.com/Mrt1connect Mrt1connect

    Apple keeps woo ing everyone with thin and light one day ppl are going to pay them for a apple branded notepad and pay 600.00 for a couple pieces of paper.

    • Helvetica

      I find it sad that you aren’t being satirical and that the anti-Apple camp actually believes hyperbolic crap like that is true.

      • Raygun

        I find it more sad that you are one of the “enlightened” iSheep who think everything Apple is the best there is. 

      • Helvetica

        Who are you quoting?  I never said I believe Apple makes the best anything.  I said I find it pitiful that anyone has to justify their blind hatred of Apple by making ridiculous, outlandish claims against the sensibility of those who buy their products, and sad that certain people actually believe their irrational claims … such as that Apple would ever release a $600 notepad comprising of two pieces of paper or that anyone (except a few fanatical or wealthy eccentrics) would ever buy one.

  • Anonymous

    The first seven words in that article suggested new battery tech to me. I got very excited until I realized that you were talking about the iPad 3, and then I got very sad.

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      I wholeheartedly welcome any company to come out with a new battery for cell phones. The current system is pretty damn good, but I want more innovation in battery power.

  • Shanghai Dan

    It’s gotta get thinner to compete with the Samsung and Toshiba offerings which are thinner than the iPad 2…

    • Anonymous

      no it doesn’t… the iPhone 4 didn’t try to be the ‘thinnest’ smart phone.  given it’s goal to be considered as being a decent PnC camera, it’s formfactor actually is probably locked to maintain the pocket camera config.   Taking a picture with a credit card formfactor (thickness) would be problematic.

      I doubt the iPad will chase the ‘thinness’ spec.   My guess is it would rather pack more performance/cc/$ into the vacated space.   

      • Plazmic Flame

        “the iPhone 4 didn’t try to be the thinnest smartphone.”

        Excuse me???

      • Drybones5

        Apple packing in as much performance?  Thy used to lead with that kind of stuff back in the 3G and 3GS iPhone times, but they have awful specs no a days

        I say the iPad 3 would be a max 1.4ghz dual core which is what the Samsung galaxy Note has now and the HTC Sensation has already

  • Bringit

    Even better.

  • epilo

    Hey BGR. Not fair. You can’t move over to the iPad yet. Haven’t got my fill of iPhone 5 hyperbole yet today. Only 3 posts on the iPhone today. I expect at least 2 more iPhone 5 posts today. Otherwise I’ll go into withdrawal!!!

    • Ashley Keith

      +1 for the lulz, -2 for encouraging BGR for more iphone articles. :)

  • Anonymous

    Im still using the iPad 1. Looks like the iPad 3 might be worth waiting for.
    anonymize.it.tc

  • Steve blowJobs

    I have details on the iPad 4 design…will be thinner, lighter, and gave a feature a the new 3072×2304 pixel “Microscope Display” as the name suggest, you will need a microscope to see them

    I also have exclusive details on the iPad 5…. even lighter and thinner than the 4. Similar design to the iPhone 7, new 6142×4608 pixel LHC display, with pixels so small scientists will be using them to fire around the Large Hardon Collider

  • Anonymous

    BGR didn’t you say the ipad 3 was releasing this year? You guys are such liars!!! I can’t believe anything that’s posted.

  • Anonymous

    Of course it will be thinner, they have to compete against what Samsung did to them with the Galaxy Tab. And what Toshiba will do to them with their next tablet.

    Apple will release their new ipad 3 first and everyone’s else’s will be thinner when it comes out next year, then apple will say they copied them.. 

    • Anonymous

      What exactly is Samsung doing to them? Make it thinner by a millimeter? I guess you missed the story of Samsung shipping a million Galaxy Tabs but only selling 20,000 so they could attempt to steal marketshare in those BS reports from analysts. Welcome to Android’s ‘dominant marketshare’!

      BTW go and look at tablets before and after the iPad. Seems pretty different eh?

  • Plazmic Flame

    Personally, I think everyone needs to quit their bitchin’! We need rumors to fuel our desires for these devices.

    That’s why no one is buying the Huawei S7…

    (You Say: What’s that?)

    Exactly.

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