iPad Mini? Apple special event on 23 October 2012

[Jan]

Apple special event fuels iPad Mini rumour

Apple has announced a special event to be held on 23 October 2012 where it is expected to unveil a 7-inch iPad.

 

[McCrazieGoalz]

Nokia's tablet (Coffee / Senna) is going to be competing in that space (7") for Win8.

Microsoft has vowed not to leave any space open for the competition.

It will be interesting to see how the iPad mini looks and performs though.

 

[icyrus]

Expected to unveil an 8" tablet I think.

 

[Freaksta]

Wonder what price point this will come in at!

 

[system32]

Apple to "invent" smaller tablet?

Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO, famously ranted against the opportunity for such products during an October 2010 earnings conference call. During that call, Jobs talked about how such tablets offered just a fraction of the screen size as a 10-inch tablet, while not offering a significant boost over the smartphone that most tablet buyers were already carrying.

 

[GreyBush]

Wonder what price point this will come in at!

I read some rumours somewhere that the low storage wifi only one was under $300... think it was $285

 

[McCrazieGoalz]

I read some rumours somewhere that the low storage wifi only one was under $300... think it was $285

I read somewhere where it said US$245/$249. And yes, Wifi only. Not sure about the storage.

What would low storage be? 2GB? 4GB?

 

[JStrike]

Apple to "invent" smaller tablet?

Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO, famously ranted against the opportunity for such products during an October 2010 earnings conference call. During that call, Jobs talked about how such tablets offered just a fraction of the screen size as a 10-inch tablet, while not offering a significant boost over the smartphone that most tablet buyers were already carrying.

Steve Jobs was very well known for dismissing something, while Apple worked on a product like that at the same time...

 

[GreyBush]

I read somewhere where it said US$245/$249. And yes, Wifi only. Not sure about the storage.

What would low storage be? 2GB? 4GB?

German site MobileGeeks claims to have a screenshot from an inventory system used in Europe and Asia showing the iPad Mini price in Euros – apparently the tablet will start at €249 (around £200/$320/AU$310) for the 8GB version, rising all the way to €649 (around £522/$837/AU$820) for the 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G/4G model.

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[bwana]

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I don't think you can just convert the euro price to USD. Take the new iPad prices in Germany - their price without vat is still about $10 more than the US price.

 

[cerebus]

It'll most likely convert out to $250 for the base model and scale up. Interesting, let's see how they position this.

 

[JStrike]

I'm guessing $299 for the base model