The iPad mini 7 could still arrive before the end of 2023, according to reports
One last launch?
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We saw fouriPhone 15models, theApple Watch 9, and theApple Watch Ultra 2make their debuts last week, but it seemsApplemay not be finished with new products this year – and the iPad mini 7 has been tipped to make an appearance before 2023 is out.
This comes from Taiwanese outletDigiTimes(viaMacRumors), a publication with close connections to sources inside Apple’s supply chain partners. It has a better-than-average record at Apple product predictions, though not a perfect one.
In an article on market demand for tablets, DigiTimes mentions a “new small-size iPad” due to launch in the fourth quarter of the year, which sounds to us very much like a successor to theiPad mini 6we got back in 2021.
This particular DigiTimes report doesn’t give us any other real information about what to expect from the iPad mini 7, but we’ve gotour own ideas on that. It’ll clearly be faster than its predecessor, though perhaps not by much.
More to come in 2024
This isn’t completely out of the blue. There has previously been chatter around a 2023 appearance for the iPad mini 7, and one leakerhad suggestedthat the smaller slate would launch with the iPhone 15. That didn’t happen, but we may not have much longer to wait.
Also, well-respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo hasgone on recordas saying that an iPad mini 7 could ship by the end of 2023 or early in 2024. Perhaps Apple is keen to get the tablet out on sale in time for the holiday season.
An announcement could come any time in that fourth quarter window – October, November, or December – but we’re thinking that we’ll just get a press release from Apple rather than a full-on event at Cupertino headquarters.
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And that may well be it for Apple for the calendar year: the next iPad Pros, complete withOLEDdisplays and M3 chips,aren’t expected until 2024. It also seems that the M3 Mac upgrades are going to bescheduled for 2024, as well.
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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
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