According to the recent reports, Apple will begin to ramp up the production on the fifth generation iPad stating in July.

The company plans on manufacturing anywhere from 2-3 million units per month and will complete its production cycle in September. The publication also reported on some of the specifications for the new iPad stating that it will be narrower, thinner and lighter than the current model. It will also look very similar to the iPad Mini. This is something that has been reported by several tech publications in the past.

Apple will bring the same GF2 touch technology used in the iPad Mini, which will enable the company to design a thinner display for the new full size iPad.

Macrumors report that the iPad 5 is estimated to being 25% lighter and 15% thinner than the current iPad. If this were the case then the iPad 5 size would be somewhere around 7.5-8.0mm thick, which is a lot different to the 9.4 mm thickness of the iPad 4, the iPad mini is only 7.2 mm.

So this would mean a 2mm reduction, now some might think the battery life will get worse because it has a thinner bezel, the iPad mini has a built-in 16.3-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery and provides up to 10 hours of general use. The iPad 4 has a built-in 42.5-watt-hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery and still provides up to 10 hours of general use.

So it does not matter how thin Apple makes the iPad 5 it will have around 10-hours battery life with general use, it could be possible to stretch it to 12 hours but we cannot see it going beyond that this year.