Apple Order 7.85" Suspected To be iPad Mini

The rumors are flying all over the place about what Apple might have up its sleeve for the next iPad. We keep hearing rumors that there will be a smaller screen iPad called the iPad mini surface. We have also heard the rumor that the iPad mini will be cheaper, but not smaller. The latest rumor comes from the supply chain and claims that LG display and AU Optronics have both sent samples of screens to Apple according to the rumors.\
                                               

The screen samples are supposed to be 7.85-inches. This rumor bothers me on a couple levels. With the recent death of Steve jobs, who always said a 7-inch didn’t make a lot of sense would Apple roll out a smaller screen tablet? It wouldn’t be the first time Apple did something that Jobs said didn’t make sense or wouldn’t happen though. It would make more sense to us to see a tablet the same size as the current one with less storage and cheaper hardware.
                                              Apple has been throwing money at suppliers to get the price of the hardware inside down. Still, the suppliers in the latest rumor claim that the smaller tablet will have a 7.85-inch panel with the same resolution as the current iPad 2. The sources also claim that the specs have been set already by Apple and the tablet will ship next year.

One Out of Three Apple Device has iOS5:Only Compatible Ones

Things are looking great for Apple,with the iPhone 4S sales skyrocketing & recording a gigantic 4 Million unit sales in the very first week & also with Apple emerging victorious in the legal battles against HTC & Samsung individually. One out of every three Apple devices across the iPad, iPhone and iPod lines is currently running the new iOS 5, at least among those devices that qualify for it. That’s the iPhone 4 and 3GS, the iPod Touch’s third and fourth generation, and all current models of the iPad.
                                                         Even for a free upgrade, the adoption for iOS 5 has been phenomenal. Initial upgraders swamped the iTunes servers last Wednesday, clamoring to run the new operating system even before the iPhone 4S officially went on sale. All this despite the fact that the iPhone 4S’s most talked-about feature (literally), Siri, only works on the new hardware – not that it’s impossible to convince it to run on older versions. Between a host of new upgrades, including the fee-dodging iMessage, iCloud, a new Notifications Center, and many, many others that current Apple devotees get access to, it’s safe to say the iOS 5 is a hit despite the initial hiccups.
                                                    iPhone 4 and iPad owners are among the most likely to be running the latest software, with iPod Touch owners unsurprisingly bringing up the rear. Strangely, the 4th generation Touch is seeing a markedly slower upgrade than its older brother. iPod Touch owners tend to use them as stand-alone devices holding most or all of their music collections, so expect to see these and other numbers increase dramatically over the next few months. The statistics above do not include the iPhone 4S, which would definitely curve the grade a bit.