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Digitimes: Apple is working on a slim bezel, 7-inch iPad mini

Categories: Apple, iOS / iPhone OS
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, March 12th, 2012 at 11:26 PM
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It’s not even a week after the new iPad was announced and hit-or-miss Asian site Digitimes is hard at work conjuring up more rumors about the iPad mini. According to the latest report, Apple is looking to adopt a slim bezel display for its rumored 7.85-inch iPad mini. Unlike its bigger brother, the tiny tablet is not expected to have a retina display which will help keep the price to an affordable $249-299. Digitimes believes this smaller size iPad will compete with Android tablets from Samsung and Amazon.

It wouldn’t surprise me to find out Apple was exploring the idea of a smaller, less expensive tablet. Companies often test out different designs, different features to hit a different target market. In this case, a cheaper iPad would appeal to education and developing markets, but rumors and conjecture like this are no guarantee that Apple is planning to release such a device. Knowing Apple’s history, it would only venture into the 7-inch tablet market if it could introduce a tablet with value beyond competing with Android. There would have to be a new angle or revolutionary technology that would drive Apple to add another tablet to its portfolio.

[Digitimes]

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Kelly Hodgkins

Kelly spent the last four years covering mobile technology at places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent several years as a Ph.D student in Microbiology. When she's not writing, she can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western Maine with her husband and tribe of children. You can follow her on Twitter @kellyhodgkins.

  • http://tipsavenue.com/ Daniel

    This would indeed be a good marketing strategy by Apple and will probably boost their sales quite a bit. Many buyers go for other tablet manufacturers because of the higher price of the iPad, be it the new or the old iPad. With a smaller model you could have access to the mid-range tablet market, making extra profits with a smaller investment.

  • Helmski

    It’s an iTV remote.

  • ICE

    bullshit, this is the same stupid idea that people kept saying about the iphone mini, not gonna happen, doesn’t fit apples mo