iPad Mini

[kopfjäger]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/31/ipad_mini_will_be_challengingly_thin_thanks_to_gf2_technology.html


http://www.pcworld.com/article/261747/ipad_minis_guts_may_combine_old_new_technologies.html

[kopfjäger]

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/911943-apple-ipad-mini-tipped-for-october-release-date

[zooom]

I just got a Google Nexus 7 made by Asus and I am pretty durned happy with it!

[muskrat]

is there a retailer that you can get your hands-on experience with the Google tablet?

[danaid]

 I may get one for my wife, she uses an older iPod touch to read ebooks and organize her life, she thinks the iPad is to large and heavy for her, as she keeps her iPod touch in her purse at all times.

I have the iPad 2 and I love, love, love it. For me it is the perfect size and the best electronic device I have ever bought. I take it everywhere with me, to work, the bathroom, and away on vacation.
My iPhone has become just a phone once again since I bought the iPad 2, my MacBook air sits in its case in the closet. I just ordered the iPhone 5, I don't know why, it will be used as a phone.  

[MendoDave]

I like the price point of $249 that could make me get another one.

[djrashonal]

I just ordered the iPhone 5, I don't know why, it will be used as a phone.   

An incredibly sexy phone!

[MendoDave]

So any idea when this thing might hit the market? Oh October. Never mind.

[zooom]

is there a retailer that you can get your hands-on experience with the Google tablet?

Staples is where mine came from...

[kopfjäger]

Released today.

[ab]

I don't have any tablet device.  Ideally i would first like to replace my 2006 mbp first with the newer mbp retina.  After that, the mini would be great.  But alas it is all a dream. 

My question on the mini is does it come with a GPS (actual hardware gps not using the wifi ).  I hear that the iPad mini with cellular is the only one that has a GPS hardware.  Can anyone confirm this?   To me the GPS and retina on a mini would be the way to go.  Then I would get rid of my iPhone4 and move down to old phone (just phone) with no data plan etc.  The mini would then be my GPS and web use and I can take anywhere on the bike etc and long run avoid the data plan on cell phone charges.

That is my ideal use at some point in future.

[kopfjäger]

You would have to have the cellular version to have GPS.

[ab]

You would have to have the cellular version to have GPS.

thanks.

I like apple products and am long time user.  But it kind of blows that they don't include GPS hardware on the wifi version.  I am pretty sure majority of customer's are NOT aware of this.  Really ridiculous thing to do from Apple.

[derby]

thanks.

I like apple products and am long time user.  But it kind of blows that they don't include GPS hardware on the wifi version.  I am pretty sure majority of customer's are NOT aware of this.  Really ridiculous thing to do from Apple.

anybody that pays attention or bothers to read the specs knows. the same has been the case for the "big" ipad since the initial release.

[ab]

anybody that pays attention or bothers to read the specs knows. the same has been the case for the "big" ipad since the initial release.

intentionally crippling is a marketing art form.