With everyone patiently waiting for Apples next major announcement in a couple of weeks, the iPad 3 is said to be already starting to ship over from China. Check out the leaked shipping documents and photos.


While the waiting game is on with Apple’s rumored iPad 3 Retina display tablet, Apple seems to be already trying to sneak the tablets into the US.

According to the leaked photos below, Apple’s first shipments of its next generation tablet is preparing to leave Foxconn factories in China on February 26 destined to arrive in the US early March.

If true, the iPad 3 shipments would arrive just in time for Apple’s rumored iPad 3 announcement on March 7 and finally released to the public Friday, March 16. Apple has released their previous two iPad’s on Fridays, so these shipping dates would coincide with the supposed release date.

Its also rumored that the cargo flight organizers are demanding unusual security requests for the Foxconn shipments, leading to believe that whatever is in the cargo is very important.

This is the cargo plane rumored to have a ton of iPad 3’s!


The leaked Chinese shipping documents posted on WeiPhone forums (pictured below), are supposedly the shipping details for the Apple iPad3.

When translated to english the document reveals that the new Apple tablet will begin shipping out February 26 from Foxconn China and arrive to three of America’s biggest airports (ORD Chicago, JFK New York, and LAX Los Angeles) before Friday, March 9.


Here is the translation going around the web, from the chinese post that went along with the leaked document, regarding the iPad 3 shipping details:

Friends broke the news: Chengdu International Airport at major international cargo charter flights, cargo owners demanding security, from CTU takeoff by stop PVG Shanghai, and then directly to ORD Chicago, the JFK New York, LAX in Los Angeles, March 9, completed before transport. According to the privately disclosed the Chengdu F production for the US A company’s latest products…

Received friends inside information, Chengdu International Airport night cargo charter flights, said the owner of the security demanding, and in private that the Chengdu Fu X Kang new products. Takes note of the location of the United States (ORD Chicago, JFK New York, LAX in Los Angeles)

One of 9to5mac’s Chinese-speaking readers also translated their vision of the Chinese document:

Our company started undertake a load of top-secured cargo. The owner has extreme requirements for the security. In order to prevent the cargo from being dragged on the airport ramp for too long, as well as shortening the time the cargo stay on the airport ramp, we hereby require XXXX to schedule all the XXX cargo planes from Feb. 26 to Mar. 9. to XXX slot.

While the announcement date and release date for the Apple iPad 3 are still not known for sure, we all know Apple has something brewing for us in March.

Source: WeiPhone
Via: 9to5mac

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