{"id":7661,"date":"2012-02-21T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=7661"},"modified":"2012-02-21T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:23:28","slug":"ipad-3-and-smart-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/02\/21\/ipad-3-and-smart-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad 3 and Smart Cover."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the purpose of this post, let&#8217;s call the next iPad by the name &#8220;<em>iPad 3<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It makes a lot of sense that Apple would release iPad 3 in March\/April timeframe since the first one hit the street on April 3rd, 2010 and the second one on March 11th, 2011. In December 2011, my ever-reliable source told me &#8220;the next iPad is coming March 2012&#8221;. I mentioned this back on <a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/march-of-the-ipad-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">December 9th, 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I learned then about iPad 3 is the followings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t call it an iPad with Retina Display.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s worth waiting for the iPad 3, if I were to get one in December 2011.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s compatible with the existing Smart Cover.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Existing Smart Cover?<\/p>\n<p>Think of iPad 3 to iPad 2 as iPhone 3GS to iPhone 3G. Just like iPhone 4S to iPhone 4.<\/p>\n<p>There were no mentions of the shape or thickness of iPad 3 back shell. I assume the back would be different and the glass front would be physically the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/iPad-Smart-Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"iPad-Smart-Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/iPad-Smart-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>p.s. Check back Wednesday February 22nd, 2012. I have a meeting with a little birdie who knows a lot about Apple.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the purpose of this post, let&#8217;s call the next iPad by the name &#8220;iPad 3&#8220;. It makes a lot of sense that Apple would release iPad 3 in March\/April timeframe since the first one hit the street on April 3rd, 2010 and the second one on March 11th, 2011. In December 2011, my ever-reliable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2012\/02\/21\/ipad-3-and-smart-cover\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iPad 3 and Smart Cover.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1587,1589,2723,936],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ipad","tag-ipad-3","tag-smart-cover","tag-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}