Apple iPad mini

**pop3corn** · October 26th, 2012 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by roninblade

somebody is bound to come along and topple them from their perch. nobody stays on top for too long.

look at it this way. apple releases OS and hardware versions per year, sometimes even longer, google and android hardware manufacturers have tighter release cycles. android looked like crap when it first came out but google released updates more often and now looks just as good as iOS. iOS on the other hand has become boring (my personal opinion) by looking pretty much stayed the same since it first came out.

aside from passbook, every feature in the recently released iphone 5 was already present in android phones that was released months before the iphone 5. the galaxy note 2 was just released and it now has a PIP (picture in picture) feature, plus you can now open and view 2 apps at the same time. this is not possible with iphone/ipad since proper multitasking is still not present on iOS.

hardware-wise, though, apple is still ahead. the build quality of apple products is still better than any of the competitors. apple should just stop fscking around with stupid litigations and just concentrate on making better products.

Topple apple

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**shadow** · October 27th, 2012 08:47 AM

If youre now thinking that iPad is too big and iPhone is too small....you have serious problem.....

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**Horsepower** · October 29th, 2012 04:28 PM

It's a NO-NO to buy a gen1 Apple product. Learned that many times.

I'm betting that they'll release a more updated version soon (quad-core perhaps). 1024x768. Meh. It's not even 720p.

**Retz** · October 30th, 2012 09:41 AM

bilis na mag update ng new products ang apple ngayon....

**donbuggy** · October 31st, 2012 12:23 AM

Cute iPad Mini commercial.

**Monseratto** · October 31st, 2012 12:36 PM

Apple's ecosystem is one of it's saving grace....

Apple’s iPad mini packs full-sized punch but screen inferior: reviews
Edwin Chan, Reuters · Wednesday, October 31, 2012 · 11:23 am

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc’s entry in the accelerating mobile tablet race squeezes about 35 percent more viewing space onto a lighter package than rival devices from Google or Amazon.com Inc, but it sports inferior resolution and a lofty price tag, two influential reviewers wrote on Tuesday.
The iPad mini, which starts at $329 versus the $199 for Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD, is easy to hold with one hand, eliminating a drawback of the 10-inch iPad, Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg wrote in one of the first major reviews of a gadget introduced last week.

Both Mossberg and New York Times columnist David Pogue offered kudos for cramming most of its full-sized cousin’s functions onto a smaller device, as advertised.

But the iPad mini’s 1024 x 768 resolution was a big step backwards from the iPad’s much-touted Retina display, and underperformed the rival Kindle and Nexus, the two reviewers agreed.

Mossberg said Apple chose to go with a lower-quality display because the existing 250,000-plus iPad applications could only run unmodified in two resolutions – and the higher level would have sapped too much power.

“The lack of true HD gives the Nexus and Fire HD an advantage for video fans. In my tests, video looked just fine, but not as good as on the regular iPad,” Mossberg wrote.

The original iPad was launched in 2010 and went on to upend the personal computer industry, spawning a raft of similar devices. The iPad mini marks Apple’s first foray into a smaller 7-inch segment that Amazon’s Kindle Fire now dominates, demonstrating demand exists for such a device.

Apple, making its boldest consumer hardware move since Tim Cook took the helm from late co-founder Steve Jobs, hopes the smaller tablet can beat back incursions onto its home turf of consumer electronics.

“In shrinking the iconic iPad, Apple has pulled off an impressive feat,” Mossberg wrote. “It has managed to create a tablet that’s notably thinner and lighter than the leading small competitors with 7-inch screens, while squeezing in a significantly roomier 7.9-inch display.

“And it has shunned the plastic construction used in its smaller rivals to retain the iPad’s sturdier aluminum and glass body.”

Mossberg, whose reviews are followed closely by consumers and tech companies alike, wrote that the iPad mini did as advertised by bringing the full-sized iPad experience onto a smaller screen.

He noted, however, that the device was too large to fit easily into pockets. It exhibited battery life of about 10 hours and 27 minutes, an hour more than the Kindle Fire at the same settings, but about 17 minutes less than the Nexus 7.

“By pricing the Mini so high, Apple allows the $200 class of seven-inch Android tablets and readers to live,” Pogue wrote.

“But the iPad Mini is a far classier, more attractive, thinner machine. It has two cameras instead of one. Its fit and finish are far more refined. And above all, it offers that colossal app catalog, which Android tablet owners can only dream about.”

**Retz** · November 1st, 2012 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by donbuggy

Cute iPad Mini commercial.

cute nga, mapapabili ako ng iPad mini nito ah.

**number001** · November 2nd, 2012 08:16 AM

Next year: Ipad Mini Retina display.

My parody of Tim Cook at next year's Ipad mini 2 launch.

Cook: This is absolutely the most phenomenal Ipad launch ever in Apple's entire history. Imagine packing so much pixel into such a small device. Its so mind blogging that it has left the competition in the dusts.

**Retz** · November 2nd, 2012 09:18 AM

baka ung processor ng iPad 4 yan ung magiging processor na ng Mini 2.

**Monseratto** · November 2nd, 2012 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Retz

baka ung processor ng iPad 4 yan ung magiging processor na ng Mini 2.

IPad mini is made from considered obsolete IPad parts.Non-retina screen and last generation A5x processor. Obviously the Apple faithfuls will gobble this regardless. Then in eight months they'll release a "new" one...