Chinese net portal
NetEase has published an article that claims Apple is currently working on a smaller iPad, which will be released sometime in Q3 of this year.
According to
NetEase, the device will be released to "counter attack" the range of upcoming Windows 8-powered tablets. Apple's iPad mini will purportedly cost anywhere between $249 and £299.
The article claims that the two companies charged with constructing the device are Honhai Precision (Foxconn) and Pegatron - the latter of which was - at one point - a subsidiary of Asustek. Asustek is currently working with Google to produce Android tablets.
Naturally, we always take rumours of a smaller iPad with a generous pinch of salt. Former
Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously claimed that the iPad's 9.7-inch display was the smallest-sized screen a decent tablet should house.
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Chivas77 | 19:19 - 17 April 2012
I don't think these rumour is even worth spending a minute of thought on, it's just not going to happen. The iPad is fine, the 9.7 inch screen works well, it has advantages over mobile phones due to the extra space you get on a bigger screen, making a smaller tablet would be such a pointless waste of time and money for Apple. We already have "smaller iPads", they're called iPhones and iPod Touches.
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beeto456 | 12:11 - 16 April 2012
Isn't a smaller iPad an iPod Touch?
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