According to the latest rumors, Apple will release a new iPad Pro and iPad mini 6 in March, and will have several new products in April as wellAccording to Mac Otakara's supply chain sources, Apple is currently preparing AirPods for spring release Pro 2 and iPhone SE 3 in development

Details on both are fairly thin, but there are slight details on the AirPods Pro 2, which, according to the site, will have a new looking charging case measuring 21 x 46 x 54 mm For comparison, the current AirPods Pro charging case is 21 x 452 x 606 mm, so a small but noticeable difference

This could signal a change in the design of the earbuds themselves, which has been hinted at before: in October, it was reported that the AirPods 2 would do away with the stem and have a rounded, ear-splitting design, similar to the Amazon Echo Buds and Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus The design was reported to be similar to the Amazon Echo Buds and Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus

The report emphasized that the design change was not final, thanks to the difficulty of cramming the AirPods Pro's internals into a smaller package

Then there is the iPhone SE 3, but unfortunately the only new information here is that it will be released in April, with no clues about the design or internal specs Still, this in itself is very encouraging, given the four-year gap between the original iPhone SE in 2016 and its follow-up last year

Interestingly, this is contrary to what we had previously heard from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who predicted that a new iPhone SE would not appear until later this year, but perhaps Apple will be looking at the company's other small device, the iPhone 12 mini, is probably reacting to the rumored poor sales figures of the mini

Another option is that Kuo mentions a true iPhone SE 3 and Mac Otakara discusses the rumored iPhone SE Plus (a larger entry-level phone based on the iPhone 8Plus frame), two sources could be talking at cross-purposes

In any case, Apple appears to be closely planning its spring release schedule, and that's before the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, when new hardware is occasionally introduced The flurry of late 2020 releases, including the new Apple Watch, M1 MacBook, and AirPods Max, seems to indicate that Ming-Chi Kuo was right and the company has gotten on with the Covid-19-related supply chain issues that delayed the iPhone 12 by several weeks