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A tipster with strong business ties to China just sent us this image—allegedly the display of the (rumoured) iPad Mini. If it’s real, this is the very face of Apple’s newest mystery gadget.
Our source tells us the display measures in at 7.85 inches exactly (diagonally)—in line with rumours currently afloat—and oddly, does not have the typical 4:3 aspect ratio of an iPad. Although not so odd given increasingly warm reports that an iPad Mini will closer resemble the form of an iPhone than its big tablet brother. Indeed, our source says the screen sports an elongated rectangle aspect ratio similar to that of the rumoured tall iPhone 5.
We ran the photo past iFixit’s Kyle Wiens, who deemed it inconclusive-could be real, could be ripped from some other tablet. But what other 7.85-inch tablet is out there to be ripped from, if that figure is actually correct? Wiens also said he hadn’t seen any other chunk purporting to be the iPad Mini’s screen, and our source maintains he’s received nothing but authentic parts from what he says is a completely reputable Chinese supply.
We’re working on getting more information on this for you right… now. The iPad Mini-Apple’s answer to the Kindle Fire, Nexus 7, and other small tablet competitors—is widely expected to be announced along with a new iPhone on September 12th.
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I’m glad to see that the “fragmentation” Apple keeps talking about doesn’t apply to their own products.
On a side note;watermarking a jet black screen is like graffiti-ing with chalk, it would take maybe 20 seconds to get rid of with photoshop
Probably not.
IT IS JUST A DAMN SCREEN WHY DOES ANYONE CARE
because it drives traffic to Gizmodo from everyone who types “I”something into Google, and ultimately because this generates site hits it means the regular readers of the site who really dont care have to put up with it!
If they were just looking out for their existing readers im sure these drips from the Itap would be in a weekly round-up rather than a daily pointless post.
The tactic is presumably that once the apple fanatics (no offence meant by that) have read this article they will go on to read more on the site then keep coming back to the site.
so unfortunately whilst its annoying it makes sense and its not going to stop happening any time soon.
Woah, exciting!…nawt.
NO – THAT IS A KINDLE FIRE LCD SCREEN.
YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT KYLE FROM IFIXIT WOULD HAVE KNOWN THIS SINCE THEY HAVE DONE THEIR VERY OWN ‘TEARDOWN’ OF THE KINDLE FIRE.
POOR FROM IFIXIT.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Kindle-Fire-Teardown/7099/1
And replying in all Caps is a good way to not sound like a crazy person and make everyone take your point seriously..
haha your right! it is a kindle fire screen, the pics are identical, could Giz perhaps be making “I”posts up on a daily basis or taking all “I”news at face value and posting it to drive traffic to the site…..naaaw!
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/how-rumours-spread-online/
yes which kinda goes to show why a weekly round up rather than a direct spew of every drip would be beneficial to current readers of the site long term instead of them trying to get as many new readers as quick as possible. this way they would have time to see what the word on the street is with these things and do a bit more research
sure people will see the inews on the site and read the article and maybe stay a while but when they start to realise these posts are inaccurate their not gonna stay long and regular readers like me are gonna get bored of it too
If you squint, with the watermark, it looks like a Samsung Galaxy tab