iPad Mini could be launched in the fall at the price of $250, but with an IGZO Retina Display produced by Sharp

yes, if it were as powerful as the big iPad, I mean the same processor, etc

I personally would not buy and I think it would be a wrong marketing strategy. I know that Steve was vehemently opposed to the launch of a 7-inch iPad. It seems impossible to compete with the new Nexus 7 on the 7-inch side, in terms of power and functionality.

Let them stay on the market segment where they are (still) kings and leave it to others.

Personally, although I will definitely switch to the next iPhone and iPad, if I find a Nexus 7 for $200-250, I will buy it.

Ionut, if it had the same performance, and the only difference was the display... what would be the point of being mini? just for display? however, a good price is needed, so the performance specifications will be different 🙂

@razvanrazy: What is so impossible. That quad-core is not more powerful than the processor in iDevices, so the power is equal to zero. Something else?

Another MARIE In these hats :))

Yes, because my iPad 1 will no longer be good for anything

But the graphics processor with 12 cores compared to the 4 of the iPad3 are not? Let's not be hypocrites and admit that they did a very good job in that tiny tablet.

Personally, I am happy as long as there is competition. Let's face it, iOS isn't improving significantly anytime soon without competition. I was even looking earlier at a comparison between the new Google Search vs Siri (on iOS6 b2) and honestly, Siri is super outclassed. If there was no one to innovate, the rest would have no way to evolve.

The conclusion is that the Nexus 7 is a very good tablet, especially considering the price. I won't give up, at least in the next few years, iPhone and iPad (I've been too obsessed since 2008) but I'm mature enough to recognize when a direct competitor has done a very good job with a certain product.

I for one would take it if it cost that much, but I doubt it will cost that much. 300-350$ maybe in Romania instead of $ it will be 350-400€

@razvanrazy: It's the same Nvidia Tegra 3 from HTC One X, wtf? It's not a new processor, it's an old processor from last year, it's also in the Asus Transformer, it's been shown that the iPad 3 processor is faster. Yes, it's good to see a quad-core in a $200 tablet, but there's nothing new about it. There are old components put into a product sold at the production price. Yes, it's a big step forward that forces some, including Apple, to change their strategy a little, but let's not overpraise something that doesn't deserve it.
As for Siri and Google Voice, again I think it's unnecessarily exaggerated.

if in Romania it will reach 275-300€ maximum, yes, I will take it for portability. if you put 3G on it, then it will be a bigger hit than the normal ipad

I wouldn't buy something like that. She is too small.

The iPad mini will cost 300 usd and will not have a Retina Display.

Possibly not even IPS. (like ipod touch)

For $250, yes with your eyes closed :)

Come on... let's not exaggerate. The price of the Nexus will beat Apple, it will sell very well because it is Google and because it has Jelly Bean.
Apple will not release anything of 7 inches against the philosophy of Steve Jobs.

And with the voice I played for about 1-2 hours, while with the strings I stressed it a bit.
The Voice does not answer any question vocally, but most of the time gives you the link directly.
The weather, the scores and the traffic, yes, they know better that it's true.

Gurke, Voice was not ANSWERING correctly. With Jelly Bean, everything goes really well. Look here link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfZCeQdRXs

The response time is almost non-existent, not to mention the accuracy of certain searches.

I also have a question: there is a lot of talk about the super processing powers of the Nexus or even the ipad maxi or mini! But where is the phase?? How many of us need this processing power???? I don't see any comparative analysis between power and its usefulness!! I think the most important thing is what you can use the power for. For me, the functionality and ease of use of ios surpasses android. I know, it's personal preference. But beyond that, it's like I have a quad core laptop and I use office and the internet or watch a movie. Or I have 400 horse power on a car that I drive more in the city! Oh, that car is super comfortable, does it have climate control and a bunch of systems that make driving more pleasant? Super! Then I pay for the extra horses! The rest is just marketing! I am aware, however, that any technological advance will stimulate ideas that can only be implemented on those technologies! See star wars 1-3. Conclusion: I would like to see more discussions about the usefulness of new technologies/products or about the potential uses! Come on people! Get creative!!!

You tell me how the Voice answers? I would invite you to my Nexus to see how Voice works in REALITY

And it's not Gurke It's Cucumber 🙂

At 250 usd, it means that we will find it at emag and istyle at half the price of the ipad.

That is 11 million.

But in some things |Voice is superior to Siri.
I also said weather, American sports and traffic. It finds things instantly, but it doesn't feel like a personal assistant, but just a voice-based search.

Or maybe I'll become too much of an Apple fanboy again.
Ooo God shoot me now pls 🙂

@Gurke/Castravete: If you don't have Jelly Bean on your Nexus, there's no point in misinforming about "reality" like on Antena 3. There are several comparative videos made by various technology blogs and posted on YouTube. razvanrazy talks about the new Google Voice which was/is compared to the new Siri in iOS 6b2.

@Click: In real life quad-core is not felt, it works the same as the dual-core of iDevices.
@Daniel Ristea: Of course yes :)))
Well guys, all the Android fanboys have gathered here. It's a cheap tablet with a quad-core processor and Android, it won't sell better than the iPad. As for "it will be a hit", that really is funny. The magic of the quad-core processor belongs to those whose specifications catch their eye. Anyone who has tested an HTC One X or SGS 3 knows that that processor is only there for marketing, that of course if you want to tell the truth. The ONLY motivating point of the Galaxy Nexus 7 is the price, BUT let's not forget that the Kindle Fire was just as "enthusiastic" for many and I would be very curious to find out how many bought it, as there were many who adored it then, but I doubt that you have it at home. The same thing happens with the Nexus, you kiss it now, you buy it because it's very cheap and worth buying, and after a month or two you complain that Android is rubbish. There are countless people who have done exactly the same.

you can't properly compare two tablets with 2 different operating systems, so a comparison between ios and android is totally pointless, both have two different targets: Android wants to play the PC on phones, while Apple wants to revolutionize the Internet, movies, games , etc.

@Cosmin... what about Antena 3? What is the reality, do you know it better? Did you find out from TVR?

Well, that's nonsense. I'd better get an s3 or s2 and that's it :)) what's wrong with such a big screen?

Well, those cost triple. The S3 costs 2600 RON here.

I would buy if it would be easy. The only drawback for me about the iPad is that it is heavy, if you hold it in your hand for a long time it becomes too heavy, it's a discomfort

yes, I would like a powerful portable one, I don't need a dual quadcore with 1g, it's enough, I don't launch rockets at NASA

And damn, the s 3 quad processor is not for marketing (the oe x really is), try playing nova 3 on the S3!

Many said that dual core phones were useless when they appeared, but now they are looking for them :))

@eu: First of all, put the neuron you are using now to sleep, wake up the rest and maybe find some decent words. Secondly, Nova 3 for iOS is made in one way and NOVA 3 for Android is made in another way. It's not the same underlying code.

Anyway, the quad is not useless, because they will also put it in the iPhone 5 (some applications, games, ask for it)
PEACE 😀

Zero chance, the quad pen is fixed. On the iPad 3 it was needed because it has a high resolution for a tablet, but on an iOS smartphone there is no need for a quad. On Android it is needed, because it is a dusty system, yes there goes a processor from Intel's QX series.

I have been waiting for a 7-inch iPad for about two years. It would be practical for what I need 🙂

There is no point in arguing over the architecture of the processor and whether it should be dual core or quad core. I will try an explanation in simple terms (even if by oversimplifying I am abstracting from some aspects involved in the process)

An execution core is clocked at, say, 1Mhz. (let's assume we have a CPU running at 1Mhz).
That means that processor performs 1 million operations in one second. At the same time, this does NOT mean that we know what those operations contain, how complex they are or if in any particular second we need 1 million operations executed. This only means that that processor can execute an algorithm with 1 million steps in one second.
Each step itself can be more complex or simpler, depending on the architecture of the processor. Processors like the ones we have at home run CISC instructions (Complex instruction set computing) under X86 instruction sets, while the processor in ipad/iphone/android phones etc. run RISC instructions (Reduced instruction set computing) under the generic ARM set.
A CISC step (of the 1 million) is implicitly more complex than a RISC one, implicitly the CISC processor is able to execute more complex algorithms than the RISC processor, although both would be clocked at the same frequency of 1Mhz.

A dual core processor contains 2 separate execution cores. So in the case of the 1Mhz processor used for example, we could now run 2 separate threads simultaneously, each being comparable to 2 algorithms of 1 million steps each. The rest of the aspects remain valid as above.

To highlight the difference between the complexity of RISC/CISC instructions, a Pentium 3 - 4 clocked at 0.8 - 1.4 Ghz is more "powerful" from almost every point of view than a quad core RISC regardless of the frequency at which it is clocked (tegra 3 , exynos, freescale, cortex a8-a10 etc) due to the more complex set of instructions, the longer length of the pipelines, the out-of-order-execution work procedure (compared to in-order execution in RISC) and the branch prediction algorithms .
Respectively:
in order execution – an instruction is processed only after the previous instruction has been finished
out of order execution – instructions can be processed independently, assigned to separate cores or in additional steps regardless of whether other previously executed instructions report that they have been completed or not
branch prediction - the ability to "predict" and anticipate the most likely answer for a certain required instruction with the idea of ​​being able to use it to simultaneously start the execution of a subsequent instruction that would depend on the result of the first instruction (I don't know how to explain it more simply this aspect).

The idea is that out of order execution + branch prediction for CISC is a huge plus compared to in order execution for RISC.

So we cannot compare processors only according to the clock speed or the number of cores. If apple will make a RISC processor but in out of order execution mode, THERE IS NO REASON to want this processor to be quad core. The more complex instruction sets and executed optimized in 2 cores will be processed much more efficiently than any hexa-core or quad core of the competitor if that was the problem. Exactly the same case is for the GPU with 4 cores but long pipelines of IPAD3 compared to Tegra 3 with ... 12 graphic cores (or as many as it had) but simpler and running short pipelines.

The extra cores (and many) are PURE marketing stuff without improvements to the internal architecture and the way the instructions are processed.

If there will be a maximum of 15 million in Romania, I would buy it on the spot...by the way, does anyone know how I can quickly get rid of an S3? It's only because of "apple's limitations"