ipad mini give you a different feeling

The big reveal is here, and the result is something littler: Apple has introduced an iPad Mini. The new pencil-thin (7.2mm) iPad Mini comes a mere half-year after the third-generation iPad was introduced. Apple says it's as light as a pad of paper.

It will be priced at $329.

Is it different? The Mini has a 7.9-inch screen, measured diagonally (vs. 9.7-inches for the larger iPad, a new one of which Apple also introduced). That's wider than the 7-inch screens on the Kindle or Nexus 7, just big enough that I couldn't stash it in my inside coat pocket when I got a chance to briefly hold it at Apple's launch event. For what it's worth, I can fit the Google tablet in that same pocket.

The new screen has resolution of 1024 by 768, so all the software created for previous iPads will work. But it doesn't sport the sterling retina display that's on the latest generations of its larger sibling. Still, there's nothing you can do with the new iPad that you won't be able to do on the larger iPad, and vice versa.

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