Apple Confirms Verizon iPad 2 Recall
13/06/2011 |
Apple has just confirmed that they are recalling a limited number of Verizon iPad 2s, and now we know the reason why.
As it turns out, an “extremely small number of iPad units for the Verizon 3G network” were flashed with duplicate MEID codes, prompting the recall.
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