My wife's (3yo?) Kindle Keyboard burnt out a couple weeks ago. The Kindle Paperwhite had a 6 week wait on it, so we waited an extra week for the Mini announcement.
The iPad Mini has a bigger screen, and is lighter than the Nexus 7 or Fire HD by a fair margin.
The press seems to be all about resolution and techie specs, but I just sold my iPad2 (to upgrade to a 4th gen), and a shrunk down iPad2, at half the weight, lighter than the competition by a decent margin seems like a slam dunk to me.
I guess time will tell, but if the primary use is as a reader, then the device with the biggest screen and the lightest weight seems like the obvious winner unless there's something horribly wrong with it. And there's certainly nothing horribly wrong with an iPad2.
The iPad Mini has a bigger screen, and is lighter than the Nexus 7 or Fire HD by a fair margin.
The press seems to be all about resolution and techie specs, but I just sold my iPad2 (to upgrade to a 4th gen), and a shrunk down iPad2, at half the weight, lighter than the competition by a decent margin seems like a slam dunk to me.
I guess time will tell, but if the primary use is as a reader, then the device with the biggest screen and the lightest weight seems like the obvious winner unless there's something horribly wrong with it. And there's certainly nothing horribly wrong with an iPad2.