Apple will before the end of the year the iPad mini release. This may be announced in October. This claim two anonymous sources familiar with Apple’s manufacturing process compared to Bloomberg . The iPad Mini would be between 7 and 8 inches wide and not a retinal screen like the new iPhone have.
A 7-inch iPad, according to analyst Shaw Wu of Sterne Agee & Leach fine compete with the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 . He argues that the iPad Mini Google’s and Amazon’s “worst nightmare” can be. Google recently announced the Nexus 7 with a 200 dollar 7-inch Android tablet.
According to sources, the agency will not have the new Retina-screen, as introduced in March, the third generation iPad. On the announcement of a new tablet Apple may announce in October.
Cheap “ayped” may undermine the efforts of Google, Amazon and Microsoft to capture the “Tablet” of the market, an analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Shaw Wu. The price of a new device Apple, is likely to be comparable with the cost of Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire. Both have seven-inch screens and sell for $ 199.
According to Gartner, Apple dominates the world market with 61% of the tablet. “Google’s” tablet goes on sale in mid-July, and the output of Surface scheduled for the autumn. “Crack” from Amazon came out last year. According to the forecast DisplaySearch, this year’s sales will rise to 66.4 tablet billion.
In May of this year, DigiTimes trade publication reported that the iPad mini can get a LCD display with a diagonal of 7.85 inches, and the price tag on it will not exceed $300. A month later Kotaku blog wrote that the issue of compact and low-cost models will be engaged partners Apple – Hon Hai (Foxconn) and Pegatron, – and the tablet will go on sale to the III quarter of this year.
Earlier this week, analysts argued against anonymous MyDrivers still the iPad mini is a 7.85-inch display gives IGZO, made by Sharp. The iPad would be sold for between 249 and $ 299. The special screen would be a denser pixel density than the iPhone iPhone 4 and 4S. That these assertions are at odds with the sources of Bloomberg, who claim that there is no retinal screen in the iPhone mini is. You can anyway questioning the sources of MyDrivers: not only is the site relatively unknown, they also cite analysts rather than internal sources. Although analysts often do extensive research to Apple’s manufacturing process, they are not directly involved with Apple.We have often heard about the iPad Mini. In October 2011 the first rumors surfaced, and include Apple in talks with LG appeared to be on the production of screens. John Gruber claimed earlier this year that Apple iPad 7.85 inches was testing, but that it is was not clear whether he actually will appear on the market.