Apple's iPad mini is the company's first iPad tablet to deviate from the 9.7-inch screen size. The tablet is essentially a scaled-down iPad 2, featuring the same dual-core A5 SoC and the iPad 2's 1024 x 768 screen resolution with 4:3 aspect ratio. The iPad mini is priced starting at $329 for the 16GB WiFi-only model.
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by Stephen Schenck | November 20, 2012 3:20 PMRead OnWith Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) just days away, the 2012 holiday shopping season is about to take off in force. Whether you're shopping for friends or family, there are bound to be a few electronic gadgets on your list. Will you end up buying just what your gift recipients had been hoping for, or will your efforts miss the mark a little? If you're in the US and shopping for a kid this year, it's looking like Apple's iPad is going to be the gift to beat. Nielsen's latest survey figures take a look at what electronics six-to-twelve-year-olds in the US are itching to get their fingers ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 16, 2012 1:41 PMRead On"Shorten your topic list," they said. "The show won't run as long," they said. An hour and a half later, another lengthy episode of the Pocketnow Weekly podcast is ready for your listening enjoyment. And make no mistake: we could have talked for another 40 minutes at least. That's not because it's been a huge news week, but because our discussion topics are dense and detailed. Topics like phone reviews, new platforms, and 1080p screens. Subjects like GPS navigation, wide-angle smartphone cameras, and whether Google should become a wireless carrier. The merits and shortcomings of the Lumia ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | November 16, 2012 8:28 AMRead OnIt's been almost a month since Apple introduced the iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad; the initial WiFi-only variants were selling rather well, according to Apple, which was quick to brag about three million units over the first weekend of sales (starting November 2), double the previous first weekend record of 1.5 million for the iPad in March. Those who ordered the Cellular models should get them soon (some elite few already got them) but if you didn't pre-order yours you can pick one up, either the iPad mini or the fourth generation iPad, from AT&T and Sprint. Both carriers ...
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by Stephen Schenck | November 14, 2012 2:55 PMRead OnBack before Apple launched the iPad mini, we spent some time speculating about the price point at which the tablet would launch, and what effect that decision would have on sales of Apple's other products. Specifically, we wondered how the iPad mini might eat into full-size iPad sales, and as the new budget option in Apple's lineup, what it might do to iPod touch sales. While we still don't have a complete grasp on the situation, a new survey attempts to answer a few questions along this line, and the results are somewhat surprising. The survey, conducted by Cowen and Company, firstly ...
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by Jaime Rivera | November 8, 2012 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through the recent Galaxy S III sales results that prove it to defeat the iPhone 4S during last quarter. Then we go through the confirmation that the LTE iPad mini is now ready to ship in the next business days. Verizon has also announced their Windows Phone 8 pre-orders and we give you all the details. Later we do some Angry Birds Star Wars talking, even though you're most likely already playing it. We end today's show talking about AT&T's move to accept FaceTime over cellular data, even though there's always a catch. All this and more after the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | November 8, 2012 5:13 PMRead OnApple's long-rumored iPad mini is finally here, at least if all you wanted was the WiFi-only version of the 7.9-inch tablet. What if the tablet's petite size just screams to you "take me out into the world", and you've been hankering for one of the cellular-enabled versions, instead? Apple's been accepting orders for those models, but the question as to just when they'd finally ship has remained. Now we're finally starting to get a better idea of when those orders could end up arriving, as well as when the LTE iPad mini might go up for sale in retail stores. Users who ordered the LTE iPad ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 8, 2012 4:58 PMRead OnAn interesting thing just happened to the tablet world. We might've lost a whole size category before it had a chance to get popular. It didn't take long after the release of Apple's first iPad for competing OEMs to start shipping their response products, expanded versions of Android 2.x and Honeycomb running on oversized slates. Led by devices like the first Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Motorola XOOM, the non-iOS sector of the tablet market grew quickly early on, but for a variety of reasons failed to sell well on the whole. Thankfully for tech diversity, there's that "interesting thing." ...
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by Brandon Miniman | November 8, 2012 10:55 AMRead OnAt long last, our wishes of a smaller and lighter iPad have come to fruition. The iPad 3 and 4 are great products, but they're heavy and thick, and because of this, exhausting to use for a long period of time. Apple has done a lot right to be the leader in tablets. Whether you love or hate iOS, you have to admit that the iPad brand represents some pretty important things: great hardware, great battery life, and a great app selection. For the first time ever, Apple is introducing a new form factor for its iPad, one that is significantly smaller. And there isn't exactly fervent competition ...
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by Michael Fisher | November 7, 2012 1:20 PM
Read OnYou know the drill: another week, another overload of tech news for three geeky guys to talk about. On this exiciting episode of the Pocketnow Weekly, though, things are a little different: in addition to the usual news from the three big mobile platforms, Michael, Anton, and Joe discuss issues of major import for the industry in our broadcast's new preshow segment. Today's "Thought Thread" covers the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its impact on smartphones and tablets, as well as a little invention called CommBadge that has the potential to bring voice interface back into the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | November 7, 2012 12:59 PMRead OnThe iPad mini may have been one of the longest-running rumors to concern Apple iOS hardware, and now that the tablet is finally official, it shouldn't be any surprise that the rumor mill is already jumping at the chance to speculate about a follow-up iPad mini 2. Today, we take a look at one claim that seeks to reveal the changes Apple could have in store for the iPad mini 2's display. According to Chinese site DoNews, Apple could be looking to move the iPad mini 2 up from the original's 1024 x 768 resolution (a holdover from the iPad 2) to the 2048 x 1536 used in the iPad 3 and 4. On its ...
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by Brandon Miniman | November 6, 2012 10:55 AMRead OnIf you bought an iPad Mini, you might have noticed that it came with the same 5w charger that Apple ships with the iPhone, instead of the 10w charger that comes with the iPad 3, 2, and 1 (the iPad 4 actually comes with a 12w charger). We've found that the iPad Mini, using the 5w charger it came with, takes around 3-3.5 hours to charge from 0-100%. What happens when you use the higher wattage charger? Well, it charges faster! Using the 10w iPad 3 charger, we were able to charge the iPad Mini from 0-100% in about 2.5 hours, a difference of around 25%. It's probably not a best practice to use ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | November 5, 2012 9:14 AMRead OnWe had a vague general idea about iPad mini and fourth generation iPad sales judging by the pre-orders which sold out one after the other but now Apple has published official sales numbers and they are looking good. These numbers refer to first-weekend sales (starting November 2) and they are double compared to those from March when the 3rd gen. iPad went on sale. Apple sold three million iPads throughout the weekend, in just three days. Apple seems to count both the iPad mini and the 4th gen. iPad in its total three million numbers and it also apparently only refers to WiFi only models. ...
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by Brandon Miniman | November 3, 2012 2:06 PM
Read OnThe verdict is in: smaller tablets are awesome. They have great one-handed usability, they are portable, and they're great for reading and watching video. The Nexus 7 (which we reviewed not too long ago) and the iPad Mini the are two of the best options if you want a tablet that is smaller than the larger 10" size. But they are also very different. The Nexus 7 is less expensive and is made of glass and plastic, which does indeed make it feel a bit cheap, but lends to a light and comfortable in-hand feel. The iPad Mini, on the other hand, is more expensive and has better build quality. ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | November 3, 2012 3:29 AMRead OnDespite of the fact that there were initial reports about shorter lines (or none) at one point at isolated locations that sell the iPad mini -- which is available since yesterday morning -- according to new information Apple ran out of iPad mini initial stock at various store around the world. Reports are coming in of the iPad mini selling out in less than three hours at the Fifth Avenue New York City store, as well as other locations throughout the US, with varying sell-out times. United Kingdom, Singapore, Canada and other locations are also reported to have no more iPad mini stock. It ...
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by Brandon Miniman | November 2, 2012 3:12 PMRead OnIt's here! Well, they're here. That is, the iPad 4 (going by the new of "iPad with Retina Display") and iPad mini are in the house. Both iPads, in a way, try to fix what's wrong with the current iPad: it's thick and heavy, and it's laggy at times. The iPad 4 addresses the latter problem by including the Apple A6x CPU, which is a dual-core, quad-core GPU chip that is supposed to be twice as fast as the iPad 3. And the iPad mini addresses the former issue by being super thin and super light. In this video we cover a few first impressions: First impressions for the iPad mini: The ...