SD Card Slot for iPad 2?

Posted by unlocker under iPad on Tuesday Feb 15, 2011

There are a lot of rumors and speculations that Apple’s second generation of iPad may have an SD card slot. The conclusion was based on the photo on an image of a new iPad 2 case from a manufacturer of Chinese accessory. The case has two additional slots (a left-upper slot and a top-middle slot). It was speculated that the left-upper-slot is for the SD card while the top-middle slot is for mini DisplayPort jack.

However, AppleInsider reported that the slot is not actually for memory cards Instead, it is actually the new location for the iPad 2 SIM card slot:

“In a mockup analysis of all the openings and recesses in those cases, it was speculated that that left-side opening could represent the much-rumored SD Card slot. However, a person that AppleInsider trusts on matters such as these has since rebutted that notion, stating instead that the break in the next-gen iPad enclosure at that location is actually a relocation of the tablet’s SIM card slot.”

AppleInsider thinks that: “That may explain why some of the other next-gen iPad casings making the rounds don’t sport the same opening, as users of 3G iPads aren’t likely to need ready access to the SIM slot on a daily basis. And like Gruber’s sources on the subject, the same person referenced above gave no indication that there’s an SD Card slot elsewhere on the device.”

The current generation of iPad does not come with SD card slot. However, users may use the camera connection kit that costs $29 to transfer photos from an SD card to the iPad. There are a few things that must be considered here. If the slot in the left upper slot is for the micro-SIM, then the slot may be quite big for it. However, it seems odd for a case not to have a slot for SD card. Thus, we think that it is either for SD card or the case is fake.

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Hacker: Apple may use Qualcomm’s Chipsets In iPhone 5 and iPad 2

Posted by unlocker under News on Monday Feb 14, 2011

Piergiorgio Zambrini or also as Zibri said that Apple is planning to use wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm’s baseband for iPhone 5 and iPad 2. He discovered these through his references with the latest version of iTunes.

Zibri developed the ZiPhone, which is an extremely popular jailbreak and unlock application for iPhones with iOS firmware 1.x.

According to one of Zibri’s blogposts: “Tired of all rumors and “undisclosed sources” of the last week roll of blog posts around the web, I decided to dig the matter to get a definitive answer. In the picture above you see a “chunk” of code from the latest iTunes. Maybe, for the most of you, names like “partition.mbn” or “AMSS.MBN” means little or nothing. For me and a few others that means only one thing: QUALCOMM. Those files are the building blocks of any Qualcomm baseband. So I can tell you that the next wave of iProducts will be using a QUALCOMM baseband. Which one I don’t know… maybe the iPad2, maybe the iPhone5 most probably all of them. What is clear is that they are testing them using the same iTunes you have on your hard drives.

Zibri also added that pple may be planning to use Qualcomm’s baseband for the CDMA iPhone and iPad. There have been a lot of rumors that tell that Apple may use the dual GSM/CDMA chipsets produced by Qualcomm in the next generation iPhone instead of the Infineon chipset used in the GSM iPhone 4. Through this technology, Apple can support both Verizon and AT&T compatibility in the same iPhone model rather than producing two different models to support GSM and CDMA networks respectively.

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