These days there are more and more part leaks of the low-cost iPhone “iPhone C?” and the next generation iPad. Now a new listing at parts and repair firm Macfixit Australia includes a number of photos of a similar part, which the company’s supplier says is a genuine front panel and digitizer for the fifth-generation iPad.

The parts show a narrower side bezel and a pair of flex cables running along one of the long edges of the panel. Macrumors wrote that “the connectors are different from those seen in current and previous full-size iPads, but Apple has been rumored to be making a number of technological changes in order to achieve the smaller form factor expected for the upcoming iPad, revisions which could necessitate a significant change in connector design.“

Our supplier claims this is the new iPad 5 Screen/Digitizer:

– The display area is the same as the iPad Retina.

– The edges of the frame are narrower using the same style as the iPad mini.

– The ITO (Indium tin oxide) is the same as the iPad mini.

– There is now 2 connectors instead of 1.

– The connectors have been changed from FFC (Flat Flexible Cable, like the iPad 2/3/4) to FPC (Flexible Printed Circuits, like the iPhone 4/5).

On the front panel is a part number “821-1892-02”, which matches the format used by Apple on many of its iOS device components.

Source [MacRumors]