Several 9to5Mac readers beheld the rsther than rare materialisation this final week — their freshly-ordered Verizon iPad 2 units shipped all the approach from China usually fine, usually to rebound behind to sender right prior to smoothness time. Now, Reuters has the central word: Apple’s recalling an “extremely tiny number” of Verizon iPad 2s which were flashed with the transcribe MEID code. Should they have been delivered, users would substantially have found themselves incompetent to bond to 3G, or booted off prior to long, as Verizon reportedly can usually have the single device with which singular identifier upon the network during once. We’re not certain either to applaud, though it’s great to see manufacturers receiving shortcoming for their hardware prior to it hits shelves.
Update: We spoke with Apple about this, who wouldn’t give us most over the central allude to — which is, for the record: “Duplicate MEID codes were flashed onto an intensely tiny series of ipad units for the Verizon 3G network.” That said, we were means to endorse which the couple of of these 3G iPad 2s sneaked by as well as got in to the hands of customers. Apple is, of course, replacing those giveaway of charge, so if you’re in receive of the code latest iPad which was never means to get upon 3G… we know who to call.
