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With the next-generation iPad rumored for a open 2011 recover, Asian websites are posting images of supposed third-party cases for the device.

The cases, spotted by Apple fan blogs MacRumors, Powerbook Medic as well as iLounge, sport usual characteristics: a hole for the rear-facing camera as well as a rectilinear hole which could be for an SD-card container.

The premature-accessory game is the crapshoot. Occasionally accessory makers have sources connected to Apple in the plastics attention, who leak characteristics of brand-new Apple hardware so they can get the head start on creation cases. There have been times when leaked case designs fairly suggest beforehand brand-new hardware features, but additionally times when they were wrong.

If the iPad cases on top of are based on genuine characteristics of the iPad, they reveal a little interesting tidbits. Many have speculated a iPad 2 would benefit a front-facing camera, but the rear-facing camera, as a cases suggest, was reduction expected. Also, a probable further of an SD-card container would discharge a need for shopping a camera-connection appendage made by Apple.