Apple Finally Announces iPad Mini, Also Unveils iPad 4
Apple unveils two new iPads in one day.
After months of rumors Apple finally took the wraps off the iPad mini. The device's display measures in at 7.9-inches compared tp the regular iPad's 9.7-inch display. Unfortunately, it's not a Retina display, however, it does feature the same 1024x768 resolution as the iPad 2. That means all the old apps will work perfectly on this smaller iPad.
Specswise, you're looking at an A5 chip, just like the iPhone 4S, a front-facing camera for video calls, a 5-megapixel camera on the back, Apple's new Lightning connector, 16 GB of storage in the base model, and a price that starts at $329 for the WiFi-only model. The WiFi + 4G models start at $459 for the 16 GB model. The iPad mini will go up for pre-order this coming Friday (also known as Windows 8 launch day) and the WiFi models will ship first, on November 2.
That's not all for the iPad line, though. Despite only launching the iPad 3 six months ago, Apple also updated its regular-sized iPad. The company is calling it the 4th generation iPad and it boasts an Apple A6X chip, which Apple says is capable of two times the performance of the A5X in the old "new" iPad. There's also global LTE, a new Wi-Fi chip, and a FaceTime HD camera. Similar to the iPad mini, pre-orders start this Friday, October 26, with the device shipping on November 2. The base model (16 GB, WiFi-only) starts at $499, while the top-end model with 4G and 64GB of storage will set you back $829.




I hate this planet.
I think a laptop computer will be faster and cheaper then the pad.
I think a laptop computer will be faster and cheaper then the pad.
I hate this planet.
I can only think of two reasons why the iPad 4 would be released -- either they had some supplier issues with the existing iPad 3 (quality control, costs, etc.) or they wanted to make minor changes to counter an upcoming Google 10" or Microsoft Surface tablet. It looks like the only meaningful change between the iPad 3 and the iPad 4 is an upgraded processor. If so, why announce an entirely new product after such a short time? I assume that they were worried about benchmark results with some upcoming competitors (MS or Google), and they wanted to kick out a new iPad that would level those concerns.
I wish they would all just merge into one glorious company and make some really cool stuff, but definitely reduce releases to once every year or two, not this crap releasing every 2-3 months... I'm tired of having to upgrade what I just upgraded because another company thought another company's upgrade wasn't actually an upgrade but THIS upgrade will be worth it and then of course that other company tells another company they STOLE their upgrade so now they can't upgrade because the other company got their upgrade banned.... freakin rediculous world we live in.
Gee.. If I wanted to read mostly about Apple products than anything I'd go a an Apple oriented website...
Who would camp out for an iPad 3.1?
Tech site. Largest tech company in the world. Unavoidable.
Tom's editors do have an "Apple Free" version of the site though. They should repost that for everyone so they stop complaining.
...but can it run Crysis?
I'm virtually certain that the reason is that they want everything standardized on Lighting (except the iPad 2, which honestly doesn't have much of a reason to exist at this point). At least they started the iPad Mini at 16GB, not 8GB as was rumored.
just speculation on my part.
Is that all you do here these days? Bitch and whine instead of talking tech?
Maybe you're all upset that Apple has the fastest mobile processor?
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false alarm folks, false alarm.
amazon, nexus, ect are all safe and sound
apple lays a dud
$329 that is like killer price, the world wants around $200
will all the little children taken away from their loving parents working their lives away in some china hell hole of a sweatshop to make these things you would think apple could have been less greedy and released it for around $200, like all the others do.