Will the iPad HD battery be able to handle 4G LTE?

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A report from Reuters this morning claims it has the inside track on the iPad HD (or is it iPad 3?) specs, namely that 4G is going to be included in Apple's tablet update tomorrow.

Also in on the rumor act is tech blog iMore, which claims to have a source within Apple who actually knows what's going on. The source, who correctly predicted the March 7 iPad HD event, is now telling iMore that the iPad HD is "good to go" for 4G LTE.

This rumor falls in line with an earlier report by Stearn Agee's Shaw Wu who claimed the iPad HD would also include a much faster processor, a Retina Display, and Siri, Apple's voice-controlled assistant.

The Wall Street Journal also claimed it had inside information on the inclusion of 4G LTE for Verizon and AT&T, though carriers outside the U.S. could prove to be a manufacturing hurdle for Apple as many 4G networks require different antenna hardware.

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