On Tuesday, October 23 at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern time, Apple will hold a press event in San Jose, California, where industry watchers and consumers alike anticipate that Apple's new baby, the iPad Mini, will be held up for all the kingdom to see. But what will the little one be like?
The press invitation for the event shows only the top portion of the famous Apple icon against an iridescent background, and the words: "We've got a little more to show you." Based on that and the rumors of recent weeks -- of which there have been no shortage -- here are some of the expectations.
Most observers expect the iPad Mini to be in the 7- to 8-inch range, and have a starting price of $250-299. A Reuters story earlier this month included a report from an unnamed Wall Street analyst who said that he had had an opportunity to play with an iPad Mini prototype when he was visiting some Asian component makers, and he described the device as being 7.85 inches. He also said it fit "our hands like a glove."
iPad Air?
If it is in that size and price range, the model's immediate impact will be on the mini-tablet  market that has evolved. The leading products in that category are Amazon 's Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet and Google's Nexus 7, all of which primarily have been sold as media consumption devices.
Flo's Weblog, a German-language site, has run a photo of what it claims is an official spreadsheet with iPad Mini models and pricing. They show the device starting at $250 for an 8 GB Wi-Fi version and $350 for a cellular one, possibly LTE .
Every new generation of Apple products seems to get thinner and lighter. Although there is of course a physical limit to such a progression, the smaller iPad will certainly be lighter, and no one will be much surprised if it is thinner than its older siblings.
Several rumors point to an A5 processor and possibly 512 MB of memory, and there's at least one thread floating around that the name "Mini" will not be employed. Instead, in keeping with a well-respected family name, some think it will be dubbed the iPad Air. (continued...)
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Posted: 2012-10-20 @ 1:30pm PT
So Many New Tablets -- Another TabletMaker Ainol Electronics - also just introduced a few new tablets that are pretty impressive -- one is called the Novo 7 Flame - priced at $189 at a site called TabletSprint - a 7 Inch 16GB tablet overall with more quality features than the $249 Nexus 7 & the new Mini iPad -- the Flame has 16GB, Android 4.1 O/S, a high resolution 1280x800 screen, Micro-SD portable storage, HDMI to view movies and media downloads on a TV, Two Quality Cameras - front & back 2MP/5MP; Bluetooth, Ethernet. WiFi and an option for 3G... Next month this company also introduces the "World's 1st" $100 7-Inch Dual Core "Performance" budget tablet -- If you're not familar with Ainol Electronics - they won runner-up in 2012 "Best Tablet of the Year" Award at CNET/Consumer Electronics Show -- And they also have two new large 10-Inch tablets coming out soon with high resolution screens, one has a Dual Core processor at $219 and the other a Quad Core with a 1920x1200 Liquid Crystal display (like Apple's Retina screen) for around $275 --all nice deals for the price -- one of the first web sites that seem to offer them right now in the U.S. is TabletSprint --
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