iPad Mini – Apple to launch 8-inch iPad late 2012?
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Fresh rumours have emerged suggesting that Apple will produce a smaller version of the iPad in 2012. Step this way for more information.
The suggestion that Apple might be formulating a so-called iPad Mini isn’t a new one – as far back as April 2010 we were reporting on suggestions that a smaller addition to Apple’s tablet range was in the works.
Now, DigiTimes has added to the mix of conjecture and hearsay. The Taiwanese tech gossip-monger has asserted that “Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad prior to the fourth quarter of 2012″, citing its (occasionally) trusty “sources in the supply chain”.
This will be in addition to the iPad 3, which is set to launch in the first quarter of 2012 with a similar form factor to the iPad and iPad 2.
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According to the report, Apple is producing such an intermediate device “in order to cope with increasing market competition including the 7-inch Kindle Fire from Amazon and the launch of large-size smartphones from handset vendors”.
Apple isn’t known for releasing products on such reactionary grounds, but then it hasn’t been under the kind of competitive pressure currently offered by Android and Amazon for quite some time now. And lest we forget, Apple no longer has Steve Jobs’s singular voice (which claimed smaller tablets were flawed) to steer them through the competitive tech minefield.
The report concludes that Apple will be buying the 7.85-inch panels from LG Display and AU Optronics, and that production proper of the ‘iPad Mini’ will commence in the second quarter of 2012.
