A cover that's also a stand? Hmm... Surely not an iPad-like smartcover for the iPhone?

Of course they won't release an iPad at the same time as a new iPhone. Only so many resources, so many factories to build them. Still I don't think there will be a smaller iPad, but that is very opinionated.

--As for Apple's full-size iPad, iLounge was told that Apple currently plans for its fourth-generation model to have a "relatively modest body tweak."--

I believe there is absolutely no chance that apple will just "stretch" the iphone4 design. It would be a shame for Apple's legendary design; bedides the form factor is maintained only on the "S" models, and completely changed in new product lines. If these mock-ups come from Apple, they may be a kind of bluff to fool the competition.

My guess is for an iPad-like back, all alluminium, rounded borders, sharing the same overall thickness and radii of the corners (right now, that radii is the same on ipad and iPhone). Perhaps an optional smart-cover also?

Originally Posted by mieswall 

...bedides the form factor is maintained only on the "S" models, and completely changed in new product lines.

Your implication is that there is any sort of pattern that can be said to be followed. That's wrong.

So... like the "iPhone 5" that never happened last year and was never going to happen and isn't happening this year since we've seen nothing about it whatsoever. 

Keep the dream alive, I guess.

Why? It's a phone.

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Originally Posted by SolipsismX 

There is the need to get products ready for holiday quarter and it's been a fairly slow year so far with HW. I already expect more Macs, new iPods and a new iPhone. Another tablet just seems like even more excess but it stopping the 7" tablet push from taking market share that important to the future of their tablet monopoly?

iPad mini would be huge for the holiday quarter. I am definitely a buyer. I also need a new iMac. Our 2007 home iMac is starting to go south. The video component is leaving all kinds of artifacts and blinking lines when you scroll in the browser. It has only been running 24x7 for 5+ years which is pretty good for an all-in-one since heat is usually the thing that causes hardware failure.

Anyway I'll be buying pretty much one or more of everything this year. iPhone, iPad mini, iMac, Mac Pro, maybe a Mac Air. Not sure bout that last one, or the iPad mini obviously.

Why November?  If the iPhone and iPods launch in September then October is the perfect time for the iPad mini.
 

I wish the iPod Touch would just be absorbed into the iPad branded family already.

You could have the iPad nano (iPod touch), iPad mini (7" screen) and iPad.

Then I could call the iPod nano, just iPod.

Good. I liked the Bumper. I am convinced that little strip of rubber along the front and back edges saved me from breakage. I only dropped my iPhone 4 twice in two+ years. 

My only complaint is that they wear out too quickly. I've had two, the first one was replaced under warranty. The current one is falling apart, but I'm going to hold out until iPhone '5.'

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Originally Posted by SolipsismX 


It does seem unlikely but assuming they will release a smaller tablet then when will they do it? At the same time as the large tablet? I can see a smaller, much cheaper tablet not affecting the sales of the current iPad but I wonder if that's the same for the iPhone and a small tablet, even though they are in different categories.
There is the need to get products ready for holiday quarter and it's been a fairly slow year so far with HW. I already expect more Macs, new iPods and a new iPhone. Another tablet just seems like even more excess but it stopping the 7" tablet push from taking market share that important to the future of their tablet monopoly?
Those are my rambling thoughts but I can't see a best path solution in there.

Ok, to both previous post about this... here's my 2 cents.. DON'T UNDERESTIMATE the APPLE BEHEMOTH that it has become- they are now manufacturing products in Brazil and even here in the US, as for the smaller form factor iPad-Mini; YES they will def be releasing it prob in October more likely right before the Thanksgiving Holiday to catch the XMAS rush so as not to take away any thunder from the new and IMPROVED WORLD iPhone 5 (of which I will be spending the night outside the store to get my hands on and YES these things will SELL LIKE HOTCAKES and FLY, FLY, FLY off the shelves much faster than the regular iPad model because many, many people have a price break point (that would be around the $250-$300.) that they could justify spending and the kids will FREAK OUT when they get their hands on this little device (Nintendo, Wi and Sony you guys better get back to the drawing board) they will NEVER PUT it DOWN and the KINDLE FIRE will ... well just go up in SMOKE and they will have to have that final FIRE SALE like they intended from the beginning.

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