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A recent report states that, Apple is revamping LED backlights in order to shave precious millimeters off the tablet's thickness.

"It's likely that part of the thinner/lighter design will be reducing the size of the LED backlight, partly by making the display more efficient and partly by using more efficient LEDs," said NPD DisplaySearch analyst Paul Semenza said in an e-mail to CNET.

Even though having lighter devices has become a trend in the Tech market, it seemed almost impossible for Apple to make the iPad 5 smaller and lighter than its predecessor. The current report circulating says that the iPad 5 will be 23% thinner and 53% lighter than the iPad 4, which will most likely end up being true if Apple does include "GF DITO" (GF2) touchscreen technology in the iPad 5.

Changes to the light bars used for the screen could also result in less power being needed to run the device, therefore a smaller battery could be used to bring the size down even further. The iPad 4 already has an A6X processor and the iPad 5 is not likely to include a different processor. Instead, there might be some improvements made to the A6X to provide slightly better computing power in the device, but the actual architecture won't be changing.

According to technical specifications, Apple is going to continue to distance itself from Samsung, meaning that the iPad 5 screens will be supplied by LG and Sharp.

Apple filed a patent for an "audio codec with vibrator support".

The iPad 5 should debut with Apple's iOS 7, which is currently being developed to launch on upcoming devices like the iPhone 5S and iPad mini 2.

Apple has not commented on the matter, so be sure to take all the current information floating around about the iPad 5 as mere rumors and speculations.