iPad 2 rumours and speculation

What can we expect from the iPad 2, rumors are running rampant of retina displays and camera's, what can we really expect from apple?
Leaked case designs have confirmed that the new iPad would probably be thinner than the current generation, we can also expect at the bear minimum a forward facing camera to enable FaceTime, since Steve Jobs promised over 3 million FaceTime capable devices within a year of last July. The inclusion retina display is a bit of a stretch though since the the aspect ratio doesn't allow for the same pixel density of the ipod or iphone. Though we should expect a higher resolution display. What about the processor? well the apple A4 processor is fast and is being used in the ipad, ipod touch and the iphone albeit on different clock speeds, the A4 is a good processor but it seems very 2010ish not 2011.
At CES this year we saw the arrival of android tablets Motorola "xoom", Toshiba Tablet, Vizio Tablet, Lg Tablet etc. etc. etc. All these tablets are pretty much the same under the hood so what there advantage over the ipad you ask, first the android 3.0 honeycomb which is optimised for tablets (looks like even google acknowledges that chrome os is pretty much doomed) and secondly the Nvidia tegra 2 dual core mobile processor running at 1.2 GHz. The Tegra 2 takes mobile gaming to the next level, what will the ipad 2 have? Not sure either apple have just overclocked their current chip to 1.2 GHz or we might see a totally brand new processor all together.
Whatever is in the new ipad we can always expect apple to produce good products, then again we did see the shuffle without buttons and this years ipod nano. Speculation is drawing to apple will be announcing the ipad 2 sometime in early February and the ipad 2 hitting the shelves on the apple retail store sometime in April, this will coincide with apples yearly update cycle on its mobile entertainment products.

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