According to data published in a blog post of serious research firm NPD DisplaySearch, Apple would provide out approximately 55 million iPad Mini and “only” 33 million iPad’s classic production lines in 2013.

The explanation is actually quite simple: 7.4 million iPad 9.7 “delivered in December 2012, the Cupertino company would have risen to an alarming 1.3 million in January 2013. Whilst their side, tablets like Google Nexus 7 or iPad Mini would be increased from 12 to 14 million. Clearly: the market seems clearly prefer smaller formats, which also have the advantage of being cheaper.

However, these figures also reveal the probable drastic increase in iPad sales from a total of 58.31 to 88,000,000, an increase of 29.69 million tablets passed. And if the profit margin on the sale of an iPad Mini is perhaps less important than a conventional model, life will undoubtedly do no less beautiful for CASH Apple.

By MacWorld.fr

It is another case of mobile tech device stolen. After the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 were stolen in Malaysia now it is happening in United States and it its iPad Mini since Monday. The total cost of the stolen iPad Mini is $1.9 million. Thank to fast reaction the suspect was arrested. He is the airport worker named Renel Rene Richardson.

According the report, Mr. Richardson asked his co-workers about the iPad Mini shipment and even asked for forklifts. It is enough for him to grab the tablet. In addition we also learnt that he was helped by other two workers. The two assisted him to load the iPad Mini to a truck and drove away.

However the two people are still unidentified but it should took long for the FBI to arrest the twos. Now there is no information if the tablets were found yet.

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The Wall Street Journal : Sizing Up the New iPad Mini .

So, on Friday, Apple is introducing a much smaller variant, the iPad Mini, which works exactly like the original and runs all the same apps—the 275,000 tablet-optimized programs plus the rest of the over 700,000 apps available for the iOS operating system the iPad shares with Apple’s iPhone.

The iPad Mini weighs just less than 11 ounces, and is only 0.28 inch thick. That’s 53% lighter and 23% thinner than the standard iPad. It’s 5.3 inches wide versus 7.3 inches for its larger sibling.

The New York Times : The iPad Mini 

The iPad Mini is half the weight of the big iPad (0.7 pounds versus 1.4), thinner (. 28 inches versus .37), shorter (7.9 inches versus 9.5) and narrower (5.3 inches versus 7.3). Those specs add up to one towering meta-change: you can comfortably hold this iPad in one hand. It’s still too wide for a blazer pocket, alas, but it’s certainly purse-size and overcoat pocketable.

TIME : The First Small Tablet That’s an iPad

Apple may be the most trendsetting company in tech, but that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to outside influence itself. Actually, it responds to industry trends all the time. It’s just that it rarely does so by falling in line with everyone else. Instead, it likes to come up with its own twists — ideas that address market realities in ways that feel fresh rather than rote.

Take, for instance, the iPad Mini, which goes on sale this Friday.

USA Today : The skinny on Apple iPad Mini 

Science fiction version: Mad scientists inside Apple’s ultra-secretive lab plunge a recent iPad into boiling stew. What emerges is a near identical but considerably smaller and lighter tablet.

Figure Apple relied on more conventional (if no less secret) lab behavior in designing the iPad Mini that reaches stores Friday. But no matter how the downsized tablet came to be, the natural question is how it differs from its bigger sibling and rival tablets with similar-size small screens, such as the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Barnes & Noble Nook HD, and Google Nexus 7.

The Verge : It feels great and looks dangerous

But to think of the iPad mini as a companion to the 3rd or 4th generation iPad — some kind of secondary player to the bigger version — would probably be a mistake. With a price tag starting at $329 and heading all the way up to $659 (with LTE and 64GB of storage), this isn’t really a step down from the existing iPad (well, the iPad 2 at least) as much as it is a step to the side. At least, that’s the impression I get. Want a big iPad that isn’t too expensive? Get the 2nd gen one. Want one that you can throw in a bag or keep on the nightstand? Get the iPad mini. You fly business class and work in photography? Let me point you in the direction of the new 4th generation model.

The Guardian : Build quality: seamless

Apple is going to sell a lot of these – quite possibly more than the “large” iPad – in this quarter. The only way Apple could improve on this product would be (as some people are already agitating) to give it a retina screen and somehow make it lighter. That might happen at some point. You can wait if you like; other people, in the meantime, will be buying this one.

Daring Fireball : The iPad Mini .

It’s really light and easy to hold one-handed. The hardware design — chamfered edges, less tapered back, metal rather than plastic buttons — strikes me as better, more elegant, than that of the full-size iPad 3/4. But it’s disappointing to go non-retina after using the retina iPad for the last seven months. All of the accolades and advantages of retina displays work in reverse. I adore the size and form factor of the iPad Mini, but I also adore the retina display on my full-size iPad. My ideal iPad would be a Mini with a retina display.

MG Siegler, TechCrunch . The iPad Mini

On the surface, such an answer seems to lack the depth to provide insight into the tablet riddle. After all, there have been many failed tablets before the iPad, and perhaps even more since the iPad. But it turns out that everyone may have been over-thinking it. The iPad is successful because people love it. Said another way, the iPad is successful because Apple was able to create a brilliant product. It’s not about having certain specs or being a certain price. It’s not about checking off boxes. It’s about the product as a whole. It’s the culmination of intangibles which only Apple seems to be able to nail time and time again. There is no question, the iPad has been a phenomenon

Telegraph : iPad Mini review

The screen is the most important thing in an iPad, obviously, but before we get to that, a little about the device itself. The iPad mini is yet another wonderful piece of Apple design. Google’s Nexus 7 tablet is a perfectly fine piece of hardware – there is one sitting on the desk in front of me as

I type – but it’s plastic. And, somehow, it’s still heavier than the aluminium iPad mini.

The Loop : Review: iPad Mini 

I picked up my iPad mini and iPad 4 from Apple just after the special event ended last week in San Jose and have been using them ever since. I haven’t used the mini to the exclusion of my iPad, but I wanted to see where this new device would fit into my lifestyle without being forced.

Engadget : iPad mini review

The iPad mini has been rumored for nearly as long as the original iPad has existed, but it wasn’t clear early on how many of those rumors were based on fact and how many were based on hope. Hope, that was, for a smaller, more portable tablet that would bring access to all the Apple ecosystem had to offer, in a package you could easily hold in one hand. Specifically, a package more affordable than the 10-incher.

Bloomberg : The iPad Mini Thin Is Crazy, Crazy Light 

Like its big-brother iPad, the mini accommodates six rows and four columns of app icons. The icons here are smaller, but arrayed with enough space between them that even my large fingers had no difficulty landing on the one I wanted.

CNET :  The perfect size, but at a price

Certainly, the tablet playing field — especially when it comes to media — is leveling. The Kindle’s book, video, and app ecosystem is impressive in its own right. The Nook has made gains with its apps and services. Android has Google Play. Regardless, none of these can truly compare to the breadth of content from Apple’s App Store and iTunes. The App Store is Apple’s great gold mine, and the iPad Mini’s price seems to be banking on you knowing that. And, in that sense, the iPad Mini may be worth its price.

Globe and Mail :  iPad Mini: A little less than you’d expect tablet

I kept a bemused distance from this underpowered squirt for the first few days I toted it around the house. But I’ve learned not to underestimate the hunger for a well-made iOS device that “just works,” and after not too much use I began to appreciate a few things

Fox News : Apple iPad mini smaller, still the gold standard 

When the first iPad launched two years ago, people joked that it was just a big fat iPod buy cheap viagra Touch. And they were right, it basically was. But it was unique at the same time. So unique in fact that it became the industry standard for tablet computers. And the fastest selling consumer electronics device in history.

Slashgear :  Apple AIMS for the everyman 

It’s an iPad, but smaller. Boiling down the iPad mini to its core premise may not tell you everything you need to know about the 7.9-inch tablet, but it does set the scene: Apple’s legendary build quality, iOS and the hundreds of thousands of tablet apps in the App Store, and a guarantee that it’s going to polarize consumers. Steve Jobs memorably dismissed smaller tablets, and yet Apple couldn’t have been more enthusiastic about its mini model at the launch event last week. Read on to find out whether, for a small slate, the iPad mini is actually a big deal.

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According to various sources, some local store accepts exchanging iPad for those who want to get their hand on latest iPad. Rewind that for those who have purchased the 9.7-inch tablet last month. If you don’t want to carry two iPad at the same time, you can opt for this option.

However it is not the standard policy but it is only individual policy of each store so you need to find the store that offer the exchange policy in your local area. CNET stated that one Apple store in the Stockton Street branch in San Francisco is offering this upgrade so be fast before it changes the policy. You should contact your local store to make sure that they accept the exchange or not.

We will find out more about this policy and availability.

Come on guy, now we have official information from Apple regarding to iPad Mini which is the newest device of the company to fill the market before holiday season. The new iPad Mini has a smaller screen than the long-seen iPad of 7.9-inch. It is absolutely the killer of other tablet with similar screen thank to the price tag and specifications. As what we have seen with the Google Nexus 7 with 7-inch display as well as other Galaxy Tab 7 Plus.

Talking about specification, iPad Mini has a A5 CPU, a 5 megapixel camera, LTE for cellular model, 7.2mm thickness and .68 pound weight. The company claimed that the battery can power the device for 10 hours usage.

Availability and price

You can make your pre-order for the 16GB WiFi-only model on October 26^th and it will be delivered on November 2^nd. For 3G (cellular) models, the price ranges from $459 to $659 for 16GB to 64GB model with selected carriers including AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.

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According to many analysts, Apple will be able to see up to 18 million iPads by the end of 2012. With this number it clearly marks the continuously increase of iPad sale by 60% each year. The exact number is 18.38 million iPads, stated by the report.

It is the results of people switching from laptop to tablet as well as more people prefer to have one tablet alongside and business needed. In addition, if Apple manages to bring the iPad Mini to the market before holiday season, the company should bring more digits to the analysts. The new iPad Mini price should be about $250-$300.

[Electronista]

Finally Apple confirmed the event which will hold on October 23^rd. It is enough to clear the rumor claimed that Apple will delay the event. Now the only question is that the announcement of iPad Mini is true or not. We are just about one week away from the event so we do expect more leaked information along way. What else that we can think about the iPad Mini beside the small screen with price tag of $250 to $300? Of course will be be able to use for voice call just as the Galaxy Tab with similar size or mobile hotspot for better internet sharing experience?

In addition to iPad Mini, what will apple introduce at the event? More Mac laptop or other accessories?

We will keep it update once the event approaches.

[Engadget]

According to AllThingsD, Apple might pushed its iPad Mini with a 7.85-inch display on October 23. The event will take place at Apple Town Hall Auditorium in Cupertino Campus. We still can find the leaked specifications but the price should be between $200-$250.

We can consider this iPad Mini to be the killer of all other tablet with the same size thank to the price and of course features. It can stop the rapid growth of Amazon Kindle Fire and Samsung Tablets. Apple finds out that the 7-inch tablet demand in U.S. and EU are high and the company should be able to grab most of the market with this iPad Mini version and bring more profit to the company.

Apple has released iPhone 5 and iOS 6 together. Of course most developers are working on jailbreaking the iOS 6 as well as tweaks. It should take more time to complete the untethered jailbreak since now we only have tethered jailbreak.

One of our famous developers, pod2g has confirmed that he is not working on jailbreaking iOS 6 since he is focusing on his work but he might do in in the future. Without his anticipation, it would be problem for the update of Absinthe. This tool has been used to jailbreak iOS 5.1.1.