Apple iPad Latest News, Rumors: New iPads Set for 2017 Release, Says KGI Analyst; iPad Mini 5 To Be Launched on March Next Year

With the release - and seemingly overnight success - of the iPhone 7 in the book, Apple is now setting their sights on their latest slabs. Sources, including one from an analyst with a good rating of predicting Apple's footprints, are now saying that the iPad Mini 5 will be released together with the new version of the iPad Pro 2.

University Herald reported that KGI analyst Ming Chi-Kou is claiming that 2017 will be the year Apple will announce a 10.5-inch variant of the new iPad Pro. Details such as the exact month and date are scarce as of the moment, but with Kou at the helm, the tech world is confident that more good news will come soon. The new slab will also tag along with a bigger variant: a 12.9-inch model. Both units, according to the website, will don Cupertino's A10X chip.

Inquistr, through an iTech Post entry meanwhile was more upfront in their prediction. They said that Apple might just unveil the iPad Mini 5 in March of next year. The release date, it added, "isn't exactly impossible" considering that Apple revealed the iPad Pro last March. Fans and followers of the company are also most likely to the iPad Air 3 together with the Mini 5.

Another speculation that came along the buzz of Apple's latest gadget is the upgrades. With Apple deciding to forego 2016 as the release year of the new iPad Mini, it's safe to say that they might have been busy cooking up several improvements on the device. iTech Post said that the iPad Mini 5 "will be thinner and will use the same body material used in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S Plus. And aside from it to be slimmer, it will also be durable, alongside the possibility that it "would be made waterproof and without a headphone jack."

The same can be said about the upcoming iPad Mini. The website suggested that it would be made using the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7S Plus blueprint. This fact, however, remains to be a distant thought and hope, although some are arguing that it will be sold as the iPad Pro Mini because of its A9X chip.