The updated tablet Apple iPad mini will be released in III quarter

The new iPad mini will display with a resolution 4 times higher than in the display of their first mini-tablet (it will be 2048 by 1536 pixels). As a result, the density of points of the new iPad mini will increase from 163 ppi to 324 ppi.

Recall that the main stream of criticism the first tablet buyers and reviewers was directed precisely on scarce device display.

Resource AppleInsider.com, citing the publication CNYes (Japan), reported that sales iPad mini 2nd generation high-resolution display will begin in the 3rd quarter.

Release iPad mini in other Country was launched in December 2012. The device has a screen with a resolution of 1024 by 768 resolution (pixel density - 163 per inch), which is significantly inferior to other Apple mobile devices today.

CNYes also reports that Apple is preparing a 5th generation full-sized iPad, which will be similar in design to the iPad mini.

In early March, there was an information that the new iPad released, possibly as early as April.

iPad mini gives Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD quality display

In fact, in the last days of the screen is not as impressive in the tablet iPad mini did not say just lazy, but it was taken for comparison, all Retina-display in the "big" iPad third and fourth generation , that, you are not quite right. DisplayMate Technologies experts in this regard received more correctly, comparing screen iPad mini with a display of its direct competitors, which is about the same "weight category", namely 7-inch tablet Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD.

In short, the experts acknowledged the touch screen iPad mini decent, but not great, which is somewhat contrary to the practice of recent years Apple equip its beautiful touchscreen portable devices (for example, Retina-displays in the iPhone and the same iPad). Moreover, a number of parameters gives iPad mini Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD. For example, the resolution 7.9-inch screen iPad mini is 1024 x 768, which gives a density of pixels at 163ppi vs 216ppi display in the competition.

Plays iPad mini display and on such important indicators as the reflection coefficient, which had "unexpectedly high." As a result, it represents a 53 percent increase compared to the ambient light with a screen in the Google Nexus 7 and 41 per cent as compared to Amazon Kindle Fire HD. But the coverage of the color space of the display iPad mini, by contrast, is much smaller than the competition. It is hoped that Apple would take into account all of this criticism and equip the second generation of its compact tablet a decent display (which may already be in development).

Tablet iPad mini Price

Analyst firm IHS iSuppli reports that the most costly element of iPad mini is a 7.9-inch display - about $ 80. At a total cost of components of the model with 16 GB of memory, without the support of cellular networks is 188 dollars. In the U.S. market, this model is sold for 329 dollars.

High margin traditional for Apple products , while Google and Amazon, a competitor "apple" of the company, sell compact planshetniki the price is only slightly higher than the cost, pinning hopes for a major profit from the sale of content through their online stores.

Specialists IHS iSuppli also clarify that in the investigated iPad mini except the main processor A5 contains no competitor released Samsung, which is suing the U.S. corporation in different countries over a year. Memory, display and flash memory mini-tablet Apple released by other companies.

Home sales iPad mini November 2, in 34 countries. True, the new product is not called in the interest of buyers so rapid as the previous products of Apple. Analysts predict that by the end of the first week the company sells about 1 - 1.5 million mini-tablets.