Apple iPad 3 to be unveiled on Wednesday 7 March

iPad 3 update:

Apple has now officially announced the new iPad. You can read about the new iPad in our news story, see our how the new iPad compares with the iPad 2, and read about the top new iPad features.

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Apple has sent out invites to a number of journalists for an event to be held next week, claiming that the company has something that really needs to be seen and touched, which sounds to us like we’ll soon be seeing the arrival of the iPad 3.

Speculation that the iPad 3 would be unveiled on 7 March has been gathering weight for sometime, and now it’s all but been confirmed.

The image on the invite strongly suggests that the announcement next Wednesday at 6pm will be the unveiling of the next iPad, however we’re none the wiser as to whether it will be called the iPad 3, or the iPad 2S, or anything else for that matter.

Head over to our iPad 3 launch liveblog for live coverage of the event from 5pm UK time.

‘The iPad 3 will feature a Retina Display’

Blogging website, MacRumors, claims that it has an iPad 3 prototype and has stated that it does feature the anticipated Retina display, pushing the resolution up to 2048×1536.

Which? shall be bringing you confirmed details of the next iPad as soon as we hear them.

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