“I own and use more gadgets than just about everyone. I can confidently state that I use those gadgets more heavily than most users. It’s not uncommon to see me with one tablet or another in my hands.,” James Kendrick reports for ZDNet.
“My current preferred tablets are the latest iPad and the Nexus 7. While I have owned and used various Android tablets, the Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean is the best of the lot by a wide margin. The small size makes it perfect for extended sessions, and better than the iPad in that regard.,” Kendrick reports. “As good as the Nexus 7 is for most things, every time I pick the iPad up I am struck by how much better the user experience is compared to that of the Nexus 7.”
Kendrick reports, “Using an iPad is so much more pleasant compared to the Nexus 7 that I am confident that the rumored iPad Mini (or as I prefer to call it the iBook) will capture the small tablet market and quickly. The pricing Apple puts on the smaller tablet will certainly be a factor, but knowing the company I believe they will get it right. I can see Apple selling more than 10 million iPad Minis in just a few months… I expect the littlest iPad will own the small tablet market almost from launch.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]
Darn. I was hoping that we could have kept that name quiet. Now everyone will realize why we pulled it from the low-end laptops.
If it is called iBook, this could handily side-step the issue of multiple screen sizes/resolutions for iPhone and iPad. As a completely “new” product, it could have its own screen res separate from its smaller and larger cousins.
It was so you cold name an app “iBooks.”
I hope that British git isn’t handling the launch of the iPad mini.
A regular Benedict Arnold, he is.
So you’re still being the rude, obnoxious, xenophobic little shit that we expect from you (not withstanding your homophobic, misogynistic and on-line porn tendencies). Please go away and pollute some other forum
Geez, another whining Limey. Who would have thought.
So how, exactly, do you know Tim is another ‘whining Limey’? There are more than enough whiners on here that one assumes are Americans, snivelling about something or other seems to be just as much an American trait, especially when there is some political slant.
You have just shown yourself to be the, and I quote, ‘ rude, obnoxious, xenophobic little shit’ that you always are.
About the only thing you contribute is an irritation along the lines of a dose of poison Oak.
Because only you & him have that special autistic ability of Limeys to whine like old women.
i must say, +100 for what you stand for BLN.
Cheerio, Ol’chap. Well handled and always consistent.
All forums need openness and opposing opinions;
and that is typically what you offer. Flavour.
@Rorschach… funny as usual. Don’t be offended and quoting another I know you can be more creative.
@Tim Bamford… one believes BLN was referring to John Browett and rightfully so.
It does nor surprise, we had a ‘not Apple’ tablet after a few weeks it was already replaced by an iPad.
That’s if there really is an iPad Mini. No announcements of any such product yet, so I wouldn’t hold your breath. It would be nice though. Maybe even I could afford to get one.
noCommentsnokia announcements… Just part leaks… Internal memos and emails…
woa that’s a strange auto correct….
There were high level “leaks” right after Google announced the Nexus 7. Those were almost certainly strategically planned leaks to put ice on the Nexus 7 sales.
Actually b9bot, depending on the technique used, it wouldn’t harm much you to hold his breath. So why wouldn’t you.
OMG just read David Pogues article vs this machine… so funny.
“Moreover, Samsung’s software designers must be former Hollywood art directors who fabricated alien spacecraft; Samsung’s apps are festooned with bizarre icons. None of them have identifying text labels, and their logos are frequently so unhelpful they may as well be random Cyrillic letters. Would you guess, for example, that to turn on handwriting recognition, you tap an icon that shows a circle in front of a mountain?
Some of the icons in S Note actually display a different menu every other time you tap them. I’m not making this up.”
parts are so funny.
“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/technology/personaltech/samsungs-rival-for-the-ipad-loads-on-the-features.html”
James Kendrick should replace John Browett.
Are you listening Tim Cook?
At least I learned a new word today. I’d never heard of the term “git” before. There’s quite a few nasty definitions for this three-letter word. I’m not British, so I guess that’s why I’ve never come across it before.
every time I pick the iPad up I am struck by how much better the user experience is compared to that of the Nexus 7.
Maybe the SIZE of the iPad, compared to a ~7″, has something to do with that?
~7″ WhateverPad: The mythical market.
The iPad mini might be slightly larger screen than the 7″ Nexus and that difference might make a very big difference in usability.
Regardless, the 7″ tablet form factor is superior to 10″ for a few use cases. One handed use especially, and slightly more portable which matters in some situations.
iPod Touch!
I expect you are quite correct. But I still don’t see a viable market waiting for a solution. We will of course see. I may well be digesting hat in the near future. That would be great, if the market is real and Apple can profit from it. Meanwhile…
A device between an iPad and an iPod could be called:
An iPoad, which would combine the best of both
or an iPed or iPid, with use a vowel in between a and o.
Then again, probably not. Lets leave the naming to Apple if they come up with such a device.