iPad mini Vs Samsung: The Apple iPad mini Getting Competition from Samsung

iPad mini Vs Samsung: Earlier today, we brought you an update regarding Sony and its desire to take on the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad. While Sony has its eyes on the full-size tablet, Samsung is taking aim at the mini.

Next month, Samsung is set to roll out a new tablet as part of its Galaxy Note series. This time around, the company is taking aim at the iPad mini. It makes sense that Samsung would move in this direction, being that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has had so much success in this area over the past few months.

According to Samsung Mobile vice  president JK Shin, this tablet is set to hit the market sometime in the near future. While he did not share any information on specs or pricing, the device is set to make its debut at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona.

With its tablet success up to this point, Samsung is hoping for more of the same from this smaller device. It will be interesting to see what the new tablet will bring to the market, especially as compared to the Apple iPad mini.

Here is some information from AppleInsider:

“An 8-inch Galaxy Note device has been rumored for some time, based on the notion that Samsung would not leave the mid-range tablet segment to its competitors. While Samsung was among the earliest of major manufacturers to enter the mid-range segment with its Galaxy Tab 7.0, the mid-range tablet market didn’t begin to take off until late 2011, when Amazon’s Kindle Fire debuted to brisk sales. The next year saw the addition of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet, a new line of Kindle Fires, and, finally, the long-expected iPad mini, which launched to considerable demand and is thought to have shipped eight million units in the last quarter.”

While nobody knows for sure what a Note 8.0 tablet would feature, here is a better idea of what we may be able to expect:

“Of course, a Note 8.0 would feature the Note line’s signature S Pen stylus, which is pressure sensitive and slips into a special holding slot on Note devices. Little else, though, is known about the unannounced device’s specifications. Samsung news blog SamMobile cites trusted sources in predicting that it will feature an 8-inch 1280×800 TFT display, 1.6GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and Android 4.2 as its operating system.”

“Those same sources say the Note 8.0 will be larger than Apple’s smaller iPad, though not by too much. The iPad mini measures 200×134.7×7.2mm and weighs 308g, while the Note 8.0 is said to measure 211.3×136.3×7.95mm and weigh 330g.”

With this tablet coming to the market in the near future, it shows one thing to be true: Samsung is not backing down from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Instead, they plan on competing in this space.

What do you think about this addition to the market by Samsung? Will the iPad mini suffer as a direct result?

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