Reuters:Ipad Mini To Be Announce On October 23!!!

Reuters has confirmed that Apple will apparently seek to upstage Microsoft with an October 23rd special event during which the Apple iPad mini will be introduced. On October 26th, Microsoft is expected to unveil its line of Microsoft Surface tablets. According to Reuters, Apple's tablet with the 7.85 inch screen will be priced to compete with the low priced 7 inch Android tablets like the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the 8GB model of the Google Nexus 7. Both of those slates are priced at $199.

On Friday, All Things D said that its sources have told them that Apple would hold an "invitation-only" event on October 23rd where the long rumored mini version of Apple's tablet will finally be made official. As far back as December 2010, a picture showed what was rumored to be a miniature version of the Apple iPad although it was never confirmed. Now, 22 months later, the device looks to be a reality. One Wall Street analyst, who got to play with the device while touring Asian component suppliers, called it a more mobile version of Apple's tablet that easily slipped into the pocket on his sports coat while fitting his palm like a glove.

In pricing the device at around the same price point where the low priced 7 inch Android tablets reside, Apple will be giving up some of its profit margin in order to defend its extremely high market share in the tablet market. A recent survey from IDC showed the Apple iPad with a commanding 68.2% of the global tablet market. During the recent patent trial with Samsung, Apple said that its profit margin on U.S. sales of the iPad ranged from 23% to 32% from October 2010 through March 2012. Considering that Amazon has said that it sells its $199 tablet at cost, there is not going to be much room for Apple to make money. This could be the beginning of a crack in the company's earnings that the bears on Apple's stock have been looking for. Apple's shares have recently tumbled from the $700 level hit after the release of the Apple iPhone 5 to the current price near $630, a 10% decline.

Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu says that if Apple prices the Apple iPad mini in the $299-$349 range, it will keep the same profit margins as it has with the larger version of the tablet. Even if it prices the tablet below $299, Wu says that the Cupertino based firm can still make a decent profit by limiting native storage on the device to 8GB instead of the 16GB on the larger model. The Apple iPad mini is rumored to be Wi-Fi only with Apple keeping data connectivity for its higher priced models.

Apple News Alert:) Steve Jobs For The Iphone/Iphone 5???

Steve Jobs He Is Alive!!!! :)

Iphone 5 Official Images!!!

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IPHONE 5 Prices And Release Date

The New Iphone 5 Prices
Same price for the iPhone 4S. $199 $299, $399.

September 14th is when preorders start.

Ships September 21
Ships to more countries on the 28th

The Latest Iphone 5 Features,Photos,Information

Scott Forstall, iOS boss, is out to talk about how awesome iOS is going to be on the iPhone 5.
"Let me show you some enhancements we made to Safari. It looks great on this display."

Phil Schiller is up again

The New Iphone 5!!!

Apple's iPhone 5 Event! Blog Update,Live Link

Stay Tuned For Events,Details,Specs,Photos,and More......

The Event will start in just a few minutes......Stay Tuned:)

Link for Live Announcement of Apple Iphone 5,IOS 6 From Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco

click the links below:

The Verge

Live Video

Tim Cook On Stage

Cook says that Mountain Lion has been a great success - 7 million copies downloaded.

Apple's notebook marketshare now is 27%, they are the leader in this space.. Oh yeah, then how about the PC?! HA, they sure can't beat that.

"Now, our competitors have taken note of this. They've launched hundreds of tablets." .

However, it turns out the iPad's tablet market share has actually gone up, from 62% to 68% for the last year.

"iPad accounts for 91% of all the web traffic from tablets. I don't know what these other tables are doing." .

"iPad accounts for 91% of all the web traffic from tablets. I don't know what these other tables are doing." .

Apple has reached a new milestone - 400m iOS devices sold.

Of which, 250,000 are iPad apps.

The New Iphone

Connectivity: Speed Comparison GPRS TO LTE

The Wi-Fi radio will also support the 5GHz band, like the Kindle Fire HDs.

In the U.S., carrier partners are Verizon, AT&T and Sprint. In Canada:Rogers,Telus and Bell, along with many other carriers around the world

New A6 SoC. 2X faster CPU, 2X faster graphics.

Battery Life,Camera 8MP Be Called The New iSight Camera

The new iSight camera should be better than before

It's gotten 25% smaller... and new features: Dynamic low-light mode, Precision lens alignment, Sapphire crystal. This sounds costly!

There's a new Panorama mode built into the phone.

There will be three mics in the iPhone 5 - on the fornt, bottom, and back. Speakers are also improved and are 20% smaller.

The FF camera will be HD now, allowing for HD FaceTime calls over cellular and Wi-Fi.
Improced video stability, face detection, as well the ability to take photos while shooting video.

Old Connector

 Oh cool, they'll offer accessories to let you use a Lightning cable with an older device. How sweet:)