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Apparently this is what the iPad Mini will look like, well, at least the size and shape of it anyway — something tells me orange won’t be Apple’s colour of choice. What we’re looking at here is supposedly a leaked engineering sample of the rumoured 7-incher and it’s pretty damn thin.
If real, this is basically a plastic mould that forms part of the prototyping process and allows you to test accessories for fit. Again, if this is genuine, it looks like Apple really is going ahead and pushing its smaller 19-pin dock connector, plus the iPad Mini will have two speakers on its bottom to its big brother’s one on the back. Honestly, a rear-facing speaker may help them fit things in nice and tight, but it’s a pain in the neck trying not to cover it while holding the iPad or propping it up with the duvet while watching a movie.
With the awesome and cheap Nexus 7 just about to hit the UK, the iPad Mini will have some seriously stiff competition on launch. Apple might pretty much own the 10-inch tablet space, but the 7-inch market looks like a much harder sale for its “premium” products with hefty price tags. [GottaBeMobile via UberGizmo]
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PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP USING A CAPITAL FOR THE FIRST LETTER IN EVERY WORD IN THE HEADLINES – IT MAKES THEM DIFFICULT TO READ!!!
Pretty sure this is standard practice for newspaper headlines too? You capitalise all the major words. Its only words like ‘and’ and ‘the’ that don’t..
Beat me to the punch!
It may be standard practice, but its annoying as balls.
I’m with Sam on this one.
In headlines, all adjectives, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, subordinating conjunctions and verbs are supposed to be capitalised. Only articles (a, an, the) and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, for) escape capitalisation’s wrath…and only where they are not the first word of the headline.
If you find them difficult to read then I guess you need to get used to it. It’s a well-established and accepted convention and as such, the vast majority of the literate planet disagrees with you.
Which I guess sucks for you.
Even if it is EXACTLY what the rumoured iPad Mini looks like, I’m sure the fanboys will be queuing round the block
Taking minimalism to a whole new level. Where do I throw my money again?!
I would buy it as a novelty chopping board in that colour.
I will happily sell you a plastic chopping board (they sell them in poundshops) at Apple prices. That’ll be £300 please.
Honestly ready to throw up on the current iphone/ipad design. Like the o/s, it just feels 5 years old.
I will happily pay the £300 I am going to receive from Mr Flynn to watch you throw up on an iPad.
i will set the site up
http://www.willitmaketokenchunder.com.
I clicked on it just in case. It would have been funny.
So it looks like they’re making a Samsung Galaxy Note
I think its more to compete with the smaller e-book reader devices rather than the phones/phablets. Wont be quite as small as the Note, well not the current model anyways
It doesn’t look like the schematic in the other iPad mini article posted today (comparison with Nexus and Kindle) and in fact looks a lot more like either of them than a 4:3 ratio tablet.
I’m not a fan of the screen shape on the Kindle, but I do like the size, however I’d always assumed that the iPad Mini shape would be similar to the regular iPad to enable apps to be easily compatible.
No
Imagine Apple made an iChop chopping board that looked like an iPad. Oh my god haha!