iPad Mini: Everything You Need to Know

The iPad Mini is here. It's a sleek, thin and light 7.9-inch tablet made of anodized aluminum and glass that follows the format reduction pioneered by Google and Amazon. This thing is really neat. Really light and thin at 0.68 pounds and 7.2 millimeters.
In a nutshell: it has better specs and it's thinner and lighter than the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the Google Nexus 7, but much more expensive too.

The screen

The iPad Mini has a larger surface than the Nexus 7 or the Kindle Fire HD: 7.9 inches vs 7 inches. Remember that this size is diagonal, so the difference is quite substantial. The area of the iPad Mini is smaller than the regular iPad, but it's significantly larger than the panoramic Android 7-inch tablets. Here's a comparison:
In fact, the iPad mini's screen has 35% more real estate than the Nexus 7, but the truth is that the latter has a higher resolution and more effective real estate than Apple's offering. According to Apple, that gives you a 50% larger surface to browse the web in portrait mode and 67% larger in landscape mode. It doesn't.

It's yet to be seen if the the size difference will affect consumers decision. My guess is