Washington: Apple and Microsoft are ready to grab their shares from the cake with iPad Mini 2 and Surface Mini but Samsung after dominating smartphone market is now ready to introduce similar device to go against small size tablets.
Apple fans are waiting to see the new device but with the announcement of the launch of gadgets like Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Samsung Google Nexus 11, Surface Pro 2 and Surface Mini, Apple will be looking to improve its upcoming device.
All those devices specially the Samsung Galaxy Note 3’s previous version have disturbed the Apple’s share in the market and still going on with the same pace. On the other hand, first addition of Surface tablets, Surface Pro, failed to effect the Apple’s market as Galaxy Note 2 did.
But this time Microsoft have decided to bring a similar device which will go against Google Nexus and iPad mini 2 at the same time.
On the other hand number of rumors are generating that Samsung is getting ready to launch Galaxy Note 3 that will likely to hit small size tablets.
Here are some features of upcoming devices Galaxy Note 3,iPad mini 2 and Surface Mini:
Screen:
Surface Mini is likely to come with 7.5 inch screen with 1400 X 1050 display resolution; Â meanwhile, iPad mini 2 might be coming with 7.9 inch but upgraded to Retina display, resolution of 2048 X 1536. On the other hand Galaxy Note 3 will have a 6 inch full HD AMOLED display.
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The Galaxy Note 3 is likely to be run on Samsung’s own Exynos 5 Octa processor with LTE.
According to rumor, the Surface Mini is expected to have new Intel chip. On the other hand Apple’s iPad mini 2 will likely to come with A7 chip.
Operating System:
As far as the operating system is concerned, Surface Mini will be coming with an upgraded version Window Blue 8.1. Apple have already announced to upgrade its current operating system iOS 6 to iOS 7, so we will see the iPad mini 2 with the same. As the Galaxy Note 3 will be released after the launch of Google’s next version of Android operating system, which is 5.0, the device is likely to have the Key Lime Pie version of Android.
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The expected price of Surface mini will starts from £260 while iPad Mini 2 to cost exactly the same as the iPad Mini.
A tech went onto say “That means for the Wi-Fi models, £269 for the 16GB version, £349 for the 32GB version and £429 for the 64GB version. We correctly guessed the price of the 128GB iPad 4, so if the iPad Mini follows the same pricing structure, a 128GB version would cost £509. Expect to pay £100 more for the equivalent Wi-Fi + Cellular model.”
Just as the case of release date, we have no authentic clue about cost of the device, but some calculation led us to a unit price up to $800 or 550 Great Britain Pound.
Storage:
The storage capacity of the Surface Mini will be 64 GB with microSD slot. The iPad mini 2 will be available in 16/32/64 and 128 GB. According to rumors Galaxy Note 3 has upgraded RAM up to 3 GB while its internal memory is up to 32 GB with microSD card expansion.
Release Date:
As far as the release of both devices is concerned iPad mini 2 is expected to come in October this year while Surface Mini will be coming in the next year, according to rumors.
Though there is no release date hint from an authentic source yet, but some report suggest that the device could be launched at IFA in Berlin to be held in August this year. So we could expect an October release of Galaxy Note 3.
Camera:
iPad mini 2 will be coming with 8 megapixel back and 2 mega pixel rare facing camera while Surface Mini expected to have 8 megapixel camera. The new Note 3 is expected to come with 13 Megapixel rear and 3 Megapixel front cameras
According to these features, above devices will be coming with some astonishing features with reasonable price. The devices have the quality to grab the share of each other and make its own goodwill. But keeping in view that Samsung in past have dominated with Galaxy Note 2 and now getting even good response at the launch of its flagship device Samsung Galaxy S4, now the question is Samsung will continue its success with Galaxy Note 3 or Apple dominate small size tablet with iPad Mini 2.
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