Apple starts iPad 2 production

Apple has already started manufacturing the second version of its popular iPad tablet, despite no firm release date having been announced as yet.

So claims a report in the Wall Street Journal, which cites sources close to the situation.

The Apple iPad 2 will boast a built-in camera and speedier processor, it is claimed. The latest model will also be thinner and lighter than its predecessor, with at least one camera.

In line with IT PRO's predictions as to what the next generation iPad may boast as a features set, the WSJ article also suggests the device will have more memory and a more powerful graphics processor.

A Reuters eyewitness is also reported to have seen in early February what looked like a working model of the next iPad with those very features.

Apple has shifted more than 14 million iPads since its release and the second device is expected to prove just as popular, according to industry experts.

Apple has not commented on the speculation and reports surrounding the iPad 2.

Read on for our predictions as to what users can expect to see on the next version of the iPad.

Maggie has been a journalist since 1999, starting her career as an editorial assistant on then-weekly magazine Computing, before working her way up to senior reporter level. In 2006, just weeks before ITPro was launched, Maggie joined Dennis Publishing as a reporter. Having worked her way up to editor of ITPro, she was appointed group editor of CloudPro and ITPro in April 2012. She became the editorial director and took responsibility for ChannelPro, in 2016.

Her areas of particular interest, aside from cloud, include management and C-level issues, the business value of technology, green and environmental issues and careers to name but a few.