The iPad Mini's Screen Conundrum
Apple's rumored to be looking into building an iPad with a smaller, 7.85-inch screen. A cheaper tablet from Cupertino would be nice, but in order to make the app situation work, its screen proportions would have to match that of the existing iPad. However, a wider screen would make the smaller pad much more compelling.
I've been thinking lately tween units - media devices larger than an iPod Touch but smaller than an iPhone. This is primarily due to Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) Kindle Fire, a large 7-inch screen sports. Now, with the latest rumors from Taiwan with reference to Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) is seeking more than 7.85-inch screens, I'm more confused than ever.
This smaller form factor iPad - if Apple really is by using a 7.85-inch screen to make such a device - would immediately fly in the face of disparaging remarks about Steve Jobs them a year ago. He basically said that a smaller screen is far less useful than the larger screens found on a current iPhone, which uses 1024 x 768 pixels spread across the 9.7-inch (diagonal) screen.
And yet - get this - these smaller screens that Apple iPhone is rumored to watch sports in the same 1024 x 768 pixels resolution. At first glance, this seems to mean that existing applications will run fine on a smaller new iPad - or at least they would be just like them on the major existing iPads. Undoubtedly a number of apps would have buttons or touch controls, which would be physically smaller to the touch, but at least they would probably have a good chance to run fine without any major changes are needed.
I've been thinking lately tween units - media devices larger than an iPod Touch but smaller than an iPhone. This is primarily due to Amazon's (Nasdaq: AMZN) Kindle Fire, a large 7-inch screen sports. Now, with the latest rumors from Taiwan with reference to Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) is seeking more than 7.85-inch screens, I'm more confused than ever.
This smaller form factor iPad - if Apple really is by using a 7.85-inch screen to make such a device - would immediately fly in the face of disparaging remarks about Steve Jobs them a year ago. He basically said that a smaller screen is far less useful than the larger screens found on a current iPhone, which uses 1024 x 768 pixels spread across the 9.7-inch (diagonal) screen.
And yet - get this - these smaller screens that Apple iPhone is rumored to watch sports in the same 1024 x 768 pixels resolution. At first glance, this seems to mean that existing applications will run fine on a smaller new iPad - or at least they would be just like them on the major existing iPads. Undoubtedly a number of apps would have buttons or touch controls, which would be physically smaller to the touch, but at least they would probably have a good chance to run fine without any major changes are needed.
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