Apple iPad 3 rumor round-up

After the reports of the past few days, is there any room left for surprise? 

Image: iMore

The latest details, with links:

• Unveiling scheduled for March 7, release likely by March 9
• 2048×1536 "Retina" display (double the resolution of iPads 1 and 2)
• Quad-core A-6 chip, perhaps replacing the dual-core chip in the current iPad
• 4G LTE Qualcomm (QCOM) chipset, signaling that the next iPhone will be 4G too

Still unknown: Where the unveiling will take place, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco or at Apple (AAPL) headquarters in Cupertino.

Posted in: 4G, Apple, iPad, iPad 3, iPhone, LTE

• Report: Apple, too, has its eye on Nortel's patent portfolio

  Said to join Google, Intel, Ericcson and RPX in a bid for 6,000 telephony patents

  This was the week we found out how valuable telecommunications patents can be.

  On Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) settled its long-running patent dispute with Nokia (NOK) for what analysts estimate could be as much as $1 billion in licensing fees.

  On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple had joined the crowd of companies bidding for the telephony MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 17, 2011 3:33 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Ericsson, Google, Intel, LTE, Mobile, Nokia, Nortel, Patent, RPX, Wall Street Journal, Wi-Fi

• Today in Tech: Palm's iPad competitor, Playstation Phone, Verizon iPhone song

  A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.

  Palm's iPad competitor. Photo: Fox News

  HP and Palm may introduce three models of the PalmPad, a tablet aimed squarely at taking down the iPad, at this January's CES. All three will run a new version of Palm's WebOS, and a fourth student edition, will be showed off later on. Other features will include: a weight MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 22, 2010 6:00 AM ET
  Posted in: 4G, Amazon, Apple, Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook, FCC, HP, iPhone, LTE, Microsoft, Mobile World Congress, Palm, Sony Ericsson Playstation phone, Twitter, Universal Serial Bus, VentureBeat, Verizon, Verizon iPhone, WebOS

• Why T-Mobile is Sprint's best hope

  With Clearwire experiencing growing pains, Sprint's best option for 4G expansion might be turning to a rival competitor for cash.

  Sometimes the best allies are also the unlikeliest.

  This might be the case if T-Mobile invests in Clearwire (CLWR), which is majority-owned by Sprint (S). Currently, Clearwire offers fourth-generation (4G) wireless network coverage to more than 41 million people throughout the U.S., but it plans to expand further to cover 120 MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 13, 2010 11:19 AM ET
  Posted in: 4G, AT&T, LTE, Sprint, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Verizon, Verizon Wireless, WiMAX

• Google's motives for abandoning Net Neutrality

  As Google moves into (and starts to depend on) ISPs' business, is it having an easier time seeing things from their point of view?

  It's now clear that Google underestimated the public's desire for true net neutrality over both wireless and wired services -- something the company quickly discovered after issuing  a joint policy recommendation with Verizon last week.

  Google tried to explain its thinking with a couple of posts, but so far MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Aug 15, 2010 10:18 PM ET
  Posted in: 4G, Google, LTE, Net neutrality, Sprint, Verizon, WiMAX

• Verizon iPhone: A plausible timeline

  If you buy the rumors that Apple is building a phone for Verizon, January 2011 makes sense

  Here's how Daring Fireball's John Gruber sees events unfolding:

  The device code named N92 (the iPhone 4 was N90), now in being tested in-house by Apple (AAPL) engineers according to Gruber's sources, reaches device verification test (DVT) level this fall, which is when the secret prototypes go out for field testing. (See Gizmodo here.)
  Apple unveils MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 13, 2010 3:29 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, AT&T, CDMA, Daring Fireball, GSM, iPhone, John Gruber, LTE, Verizon

• Verizon Droid 2, Droid Pro leaks turn into gushers (Update: Official)

  More Verizon leaks including a demo page of their unannounced Droid 2 phone.

  Unannounced Droid 2, courtesy Verizon.com

  Update: Verizon has made the Droid 2 official with the press release pasted below.

  Android Power blogger JR Raphael posts Verizon's multimedia files for the Droid 2. That's Verizon's (VZ) unannounced original Droid replacement (pictured at right). And this is the least of Verizon's leak concerns.

  Earlier today, The Boy Genius report laid out a whole MORE

  Seth Weintraub - Aug 9, 2010 5:58 PM ET
  Posted in: Android, HTC, LTE, Motorola, Verizon, Worldphone

• Sprint 4G service unproven

  Mason Cohn, Producer - Mar 26, 2010 12:16 PM ET
  Posted in: 4G, 4G phone, AT&T, CTIA, EVO, HTC, HTC EVO, Las Vegas, Long Term Evolution, LTE, Michal Lev-Ram, S, Sprint, Sprint 4G, Sprint 4G service, T, Verizon, VZ, WiMAX

• Verizon iPhone: What will it take?

  What would it take to make Verizon's (VZ) cellphone network compatible with Apple's (AAPL) iPhone?

  About $1.78 billion, according to a report issued Wednesday by Aircom International, a U.K.-based network consulting group.

  And that's just for the first year.

  The report estimates the capital expenditures required to deploy so-called 4G networks -- also known as LTE, for Long Term Evolution -- in various regions of the world. Their findings:

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2009 9:57 AM ET
  Posted in: 4G, Apple, AT&T, iPhone, LTE, Verizon