I-Pad MINI-for apple geeks ;)
The Apple iPad has quickly become one of the most popular
devices on the planet and it’s actually set benchmarks for what tablets should
be like. Combining a large, gorgeous high resolution display, powerful hardware
and Apple’s slick iOS, the iPad was very well received. However, like most
Apple products, it was on the steeper side on the pricing front. Despite this,
the iPad has pretty much dominated the tablet market and every other tablet has
been left in the dust.
Since a few months, there have been rumors of a new, smaller
iPad launch by the end of 2012. Just recently a few manufacturers and anonymous
sources have confirmed that Apple is indeed coming out with a smaller version
of the iPad by fall 2012, probably with the iPhone 5. So what do we know as of
now? Not much, unfortunately.
There have been tidbits floating around, have a look:
7-8 inch screen –
The iPad Mini will go head to head with Amazon Kindle Fire, BlackBerry PlayBook
and the recently announced Google Nexus 7 tablet. All of these tablets feature
7 inch screens.
Variants – Like
the Google Nexus 7 tablet, the iPad Mini will probably come in 8 GB and 16 GB
variants.
Screen Resolution
- Apparently, the iPad Mini will not feature Retina Display as a cost cutting
measure and will instead probably come with the original iPad’s 1024 x 768
resolution. However, some reports suggest that it will indeed feature Retina
Display.
Hardware –
Nothing has been revealed about the processing power, but we reckon it could be
an underclocked version of the iPad 3rd Gen’s processor or maybe an
underclocked version of the iPhone 5‘s processor, although that seems unlikely.
Some reports say that the iPad Mini could also use the older Apple A5
processors.
Naming - While iPad Mini is the name being thrown around
most often, it could also very well be called the iPad Nano. Let’s wait and
watch.
Pricing - The
biggest factor of them all is pricing. Even though the iPad is priced rather
highly, it’s still flying off the shelves and people would rather wait, save up
and go for an iPad instead of settling for a lower priced Android tablet. That
speaks volumes about the way Apple has captured the market. Now, if the iPad
Mini launches at a lower price point and manages to deliver the goods like its
bigger brother, it will practically destroy the competition. On that note,
rumored prices of the iPad Mini are around 249-299$.
The iPad Mini could very well turn out to be like the iPod,
there are numerous alternatives but it remains the highest selling music player
ever. Maybe a few years down the line the iPad could be the sort of product
that holds 80% of the market share while everything else has to fight to remain
in the 20%. Looks like the Google Nexus 7 has a solid competitor on the way,
and it hasn’t even released yet!
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