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Apple is going mini again! Expect the company to release an inexpensive ‘mini iPad’ this year — but don’t expect it to come with all the bells and whistles of the current iPad. Here’s what we anticipate:  THE PERFECT PRICE POINT?The Macotakara report suggests that the smaller iPad would only have built-in 3G, and skipping Retina would undoubtedly keep costs down. (The non-retina iPad 2 is still available, remember.) Given that Google’s Nexus 7 starts at $199, don’t be surprised to see the iPad mini debut within $50 of that price. DOWNSIZINGIt’s time to envision what an “iPad mini” would actually look like. Turns out it’s not that hard, as first noticed by Jon Gruber of DaringFireball.net: If you have an iPad handy, just take a screenshot while in portrait mode, then rotate the device to landscape mode. See how the iPad automatically resized the image? A 7.85-inch iPad mini? That resized image is a good ballpark estimate of how large the display would be on the “iPad mini,” or around 1024x768 pixels. Read more.

Apple is going mini again! Expect the company to release an inexpensive ‘mini iPad’ this year — but don’t expect it to come with all the bells and whistles of the current iPad. Here’s what we anticipate: 

THE PERFECT PRICE POINT?
The Macotakara report suggests that the smaller iPad would only have built-in 3G, and skipping Retina would undoubtedly keep costs down. (The non-retina iPad 2 is still available, remember.) Given that Google’s Nexus 7 starts at $199, don’t be surprised to see the iPad mini debut within $50 of that price.

DOWNSIZING
It’s time to envision what an “iPad mini” would actually look like. Turns out it’s not that hard, as first noticed by Jon Gruber of DaringFireball.net: If you have an iPad handy, just take a screenshot while in portrait mode, then rotate the device to landscape mode. See how the iPad automatically resized the image? A 7.85-inch iPad mini? That resized image is a good ballpark estimate of how large the display would be on the “iPad mini,” or around 1024x768 pixels.

Read more.

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