Happy 30-minute anniversary, iPad Mini! Here’s what we know about you so far, which turns out to not be substantially different from what the rumormongers had proposed.
- $329 for the base model
- The screen is 8″ diagonally, which means it has 49% more pixels than its closest competitors, Google $GOOGL’s Nexus 7, Amazon $AMZN’s Kindle Fire HD, and the bazillions of generic 7″, Android-powered tablets that are being produced in China these days.
- The display is higher resolution than the iPad 2, but not as high as that of the iPad 3*
- You can get it in any color you like, as long as that color is black or white.
- It has a “lightning” port that renders all previous connectors useless.
- It has a 5 megapixel rear-facing camera, the same resolution as the camera in the iPhone 4.
- Because of the slim bezel around the edge of the iPad Mini, it looks much more like a big iPod touch than a small iPad.
- It’s thin and light, so you can hold it comfortably in one hand while reading, watching, etc.
- The base model has 16 gigabytes of storage and a dual-core A5 processor, the same as in the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.
*A screen resolution of 1,024 × 768 would be the same as that of the original iPad and iPad 2 but squeezed into a smaller, 8″ diagonal screen, which gives it almost the same effective resolution as every iPhone and iPod Touch before the retina display was added to the iPhone 4.
Unfortunately for shareholders, Apple $AAPL stock has not done so well in those 30 minutes. Shares of AAPL started to sell off after it was announced that the iPad Mini would go for $329 a pop.
