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Bloomberg's latest report has sparked rumours that Apple will be launching a mini iPad this October, which could compete with Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire.
The report says, The new model will have a screen that's 7 inches to 8 inches diagonally, less than the current 9.7-inch version, said the people, who asked not to be identified because Apple hasn't made its plans public.Its unlikely that the iPad mini will have Retina Display like the new iPad.
So if Apple does launch the iPad mini what will the be competition like? Well mostly Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire.
Nexus 7 which was launched amid much buzz and fanfare, is the first seven inch tablet with 1.3GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core CPU, which includes a 12-core Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). The Kindle on the other hand has OMPA 4430, dual-core processor, clocked at 1GHz thus making it much slower than Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 also has 1 GB RAM, while the Kindle Fire ships with 512MB RAM.
Neither the Nexus 7 nor Kindle Fire has expandable memory and both come with only 8GB of memory. The devices also do not have 3Gconnectivity, a feature that Apple's new mini iPad could sport.
The Kindle Fire doesn't have a camera while Nexus 7 has a 1.2 megapixel front camera for video-chatting. If the new iPad mini has both, then both the Fire and Nexus 7 could be in serious trouble.
