“According to Japanese language website MacOtakara a ‘reliable Chinese source’ said that while CNC machine testing for Apple’s much-rumored 7-inch tablet has completed in China, the actual production of the unit will take place at Foxconn’s plant in Brazil which is currently tasked with building iPhones and certain iPad models,” AppleInsider reports.
“The source goes on to further detail the manufacturing plans and, contrary to recent whispers, quotes September as the expected production start date which will ramp up in time for the lucrative holiday shopping season,” AppleInsider reports. “While consensus remains on the tablet’s 7.85-inch screen size the form factor is somewhat up in the air as the source said the new device will be more akin to a third-generation iPod nano than a shrunken iPad.”
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I think it was Colonel Mustard with the Candlestick in the Ballroom.
I find your accusation to be unfounded.
At the time in question, I was showing Mrs. Peacock my lead pipe in the Billiard room.
I’m enjoying our waxing of Brazilian positions with respect to the Mini Pad….wait.
Any waning of sending beaucoup de bucks to China: Criminal Nation, is fine with me. Bravo Brazil.
Lead is rather soft, Colonel.. Ms. Scarlett prefers my candlestick in the Conservatory.
“…more akin to a 3rd gen iPod nano…” “nano”… Wha…? How does that make sense within the context of an iPad?
They probably mean iPod Touch and not Nano.
Apple TV remote?…
… with noise cancelation so we can do Siri …
’nuff this sh*t!
ain’t hap’nin’
Chinese sources tell me the above comment was generated by a robot and should be disregarded.
The fact that:
“the source said the new device will be more akin to a third-generation iPod nano than a shrunken iPad.”
Give you all the information you need to know to judge the veracity of this rumor. A “source” who doesn’t is likely not very reliable.
Add to that a bit of common sense: scaling an iPod touch’s (960X640) display to 5 inches might make (a little) sense but scaling it to 7.85 makes no sense at all.
This adds up to this report having absolutely no credibility at all.
if it is supposed to look like a ipod nano 3g, then that pic for the ipad mini floating around must be the real deal. it has the same round edges as the nano and the new mini dock connector. there is too much work that went into the part pictured for any sane person to want to fake. i think its the real deal.
I have absolutely no idea what you are referring to, all of the pictures I see when i search for “iPad mini” look like s shrunken iPad. (the current nano is distinctly different, looking -a bit- like the old iPod Mini) Add to that; what possible link does apple making a new connector (or not) for their phone have to do with veracity of any “iPad mini” rumor?
Care to elucidate?
Business Insider has a picture that it dug up from a cached version of the website that originally posted it.
Mmmm you mean the one they (Business Insider) label as a fake?
Except it doesn’t look like a iPod nano very much (which was (like the original mini) a flattened oblate cylinder) However it does look similar to the original iPhone design (a rounded corners rectangular cube)
I don’t know there rp, pretty thin chain of evidence there…
Yes. And I have no doubt in my mind that this is the real deal. They are guessing jst as I am, but I know my guesses are always better than blogers and pundits.
We’ll know soon enough, but that item is much too detailed and fits the bill too perfectly to be fake. Like I said, my guesses are always better than tech pundits so we’ll see.
Oops, a backspace accendentally chopped a bunch of text…Should read:
Give you all the information you need to know to judge the veracity of this rumor. A “source” who doesn’t know the difference (between a touch and a nano) is likely not very reliable.
but it’s on the Internet…… So it must be true. 🙂
The iPod touch 3rdGen was a beautiful, svelte machine. We could be so lucky as to have the iPad mini modeled after it.
Two words: thin, light. Thin… light. THIN and LIGHT! Those are the only two attributes that really matter here. They need to make it just ridiculously thin and light and we’ll salivate as we hand over our money. Based on this rumor, it looks like they’re headed in that direction.
3rd gen nano doesn’t sound like it’s going to be an iPad of any kind. That just doesn’t make any sense.
They most likely meant the 3rdGen iPod touch, when it had the teardrop shape.
Makes sense as they probably started working on the iPad mini around that time.
Also, this would lend credence to the device being more like an “iPod touch XL” than an iPad mini. But I don’t give a crap what they call it.
Maybe apple will market this as THE IPOD, like the THE IPAD.
This will kill marketing of th wannabes.
OK, so so far, we have the following information quite firmly nailed down on the “iPad mini”:
1) The screen will be 7.85″.
2) It will be launched in September.
3) It will be produced in Brazil.
4) Someone confirmed the other day that it will sell 35 million units in the holiday quarter.
5) Even the materials that will be used for the various parts have been minutely detailed in various reports.
And they said Apple is the most secretive company in the world? They must have been kidding!
I’m pretty sure the meant the 3rd Gen ipod with the cliick wheel because that’s what the supposed fake part looks like. With the rounded aluminum edges.
Of course it wouldn’t have the click wheel, but the body in general, which would look pretty nice.
The new iPad mini will resemble a larger iPhone Nano.
zzzzz
if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
zzzzz
If enough people on the Internet say that the world is flat, does that mean it is true? If a few ‘experts’ weigh in and say it too and say it might be flat, does that constitute proof?
That depends…some groups seem convinced that belief is equivalent to reality, no matter how serious the disconnect.
Steve Jobs must be rolling in his coffin right about now! If Apple comes out with a 7″ tablet, they will be indeed copying Google!
Secondly, Steve was so against a small size tablet… Boy have the tables turned!
“The reason we [won’t] make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit [a lower] price point,” Jobs said. “It’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software. As a software driven company, we think about the software strategies first.” Such tablets, Jobs said, would be useful only if they came with sandpaper to file down human fingers to a quarter of their size. There’s just a limit to how little physical area a screen element can be and still be able to be pinched and swiped, Jobs observed at the time.”
LOL
Sounds like Apple is DESPERATE now!
Apple goes where the opportunity exists…in the future.
Once the hi-res screen became reality, a small tablet suddenly becomes as usable as the original iPad size if you have good reading vision/glasses.
I want a smaller device to use when I travel, but the iPad went to my wife as it is bigger than I want to carry. The iPhone is a bit too small in screen size for many uses with large documents. A smaller 7.8″ hi-res device has no doubt been tried inside Apple with dozens of engineers & staff to determine how real world users like it.
Apple surried about competition from microsoft, promise to cough up 7inch ipod. Lol
Once that Vietnamese site says a smaller iPad is coming then I will for sure believe the rumor.
I’d buy the 7.85.
128 gigs or more and I’m all over this.
Right. Because the first thing a budget iPad will do is to add more storage that is even in the highest end iPad.
All I know is where Santa will be shopping this holiday season. “Excuse me, we’ll take 2 iPad Minis please.” Apple makes it all so easy to shop for the holidays!
So true.
Mom gets one this year for sure. She has a kindle and this will replace it and then some.
Who ever started this rumor should do the honorable thing and commit Seppuku
It’s going to come in flavors. It will be colored liquid metal on the back, and shaped much like the iPod nano third generation. It might come in several color schemes?