7.85″ iPad mini to be released alongside the iPhone 5

By Nathan Lee on July 5, 2012

Apple’s iPad has reigned king of the tablets for the past 2 years in terms of sales. Steve Jobs has always been against making a 7″ tablet but Apple might really be onto the 7″ tablet size now. The budget-friendly Nexus 7 tablet made by Asus might be starting to budge into Apple’s dominance in the tablet market. Rumour has it that it will be released in October along with the iPhone 5 but I would reserve my doubt about this date since manufacturing on Apple’s demand scale is beyond difficult to handle.

For the iPad mini to be a direct competitor to the Nexus 7, it will probably also keep a low price point ranging from $200-$300. If the iPad mini also supports 3G/4G wireless connectivity, it could dominate even the small tablet market.

What do you think? Will the competition of the Nexus 7 really make Apple’s long-rumoured 7″ or 7.85″ feasible to create?

 

  • Joe

    Steve Jobs made the decision to make the iPad the size it is because it’s the handy size to use instead of a laptop or go to a desk to use a desktop. Apple may have made the decision to match the Kindle size device because of older reading type folks or because apps are bigger than surfing the web for many people. Or maybe they are thinking a smaller, less expensive iPad would be perfect for children. Are they thinking about those people with much smaller fingers? Why miss a demographic group? Everything else is sold in multiple sizes.

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  • http://twitter.com/nlee350 Nathan Lee

    Apple making a smaller iPad is quite feasible but whether it will come out with the iPhone 5 will be uncertain. 

    In terms of on-screen keyboard, I prefer 7″ Android tablets to the 10″ iPad. It’s difficult to type on the iPad without putting the device down on some sort of surface and even then, its slower than my hyper-thumb action on a smartphone or iPhone keyboard.

    Apple might be thinking of what they did in the mp3 player market – domination. There is definitely room for a smaller iPad especially with the emergence of new consumer electronic markets like the Galaxy Note and Asus Transformers. 

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