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If you’re waiting for a so-called “Retina” display on an iPad mini in the near future, you’ll be better off planning to wait it out for at least another season. While the iPad mini currently sits with the same display resolution as the iPad 2, the trend for best-of-the-best in all things display and specifications have suddenly proven to be topped out. While this isn’t the only indicator for the iPad mini staying with the display it’s got now, the trend has become rather apparent: the next waves of smartphones and tablets selling out of stores wont necessarily beat out the previous generation for high-end specs, they’ll be aimed at the everyman.

Suggestions from Economic Daily News Report lead the pack this week with suggestion that the second-generation iPad mini will either be pushed back to 2014 for a full launch OR will be appearing with an incremental update – not quite a full second generation, that is. Almost like an iPad mini S, as it were.

While we’ve seen the casings from the iPad 5 matching up quite well along the edges with that of the current-generation iPad mini, the iPad mini itself has had no such leaks. Only suggestions of Retina or non-Retina from sources close to the matter, analysts, and factory floor enthusiasts.

You’ll find a May 6th report from NPD DisplaySearch that suggests that the iPad mini with Retina display will be coming inside 2013, but without a boost to the machine’s processor. Similar reports suggest the opposite, with the processor (and perhaps the camera) getting a bump in an incremental update while the display would get its full-on retina upgrade in 2014.

Meanwhile the rear shell from the iPad mini 2 appeared to leak earlier this year and cannibalization continues.

The most recent update to iOS 7 – still in beta mode at the moment – suggests that the “x2″ mode included with all devices has been given a quality boost. This means that the applications made for smaller displays like the iPhone grow in size to meet the display they’re on, and with the iPad 2′s display size – it’s amount of pixels, that is – rolling strong with the iPad mini, the change will be welcome. Don’t be surprised if the iPad mini 2 continues to be called the iPad mini (without the 2) later this year, complete with upgrades to its insides, but not to its out.

iPad mini 2 skipping retina again: here’s why is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Want iOS 7‘s notification center but don’t have an iOS device? No problem. There’s a new app called Control Center that will gives you a clone of that feature any Android phone.

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There’s a brand new collection of so-called “budget” iPhone colored backs, the lot of them showing up as especially vibrant tones as expected. It’s been expected that this lot would appear with connections to the recently enlivened aesthetics of iOS 7, an operating system given a boost by Apple’s Jony Ive himself. Here we see that the innards will, if these images prove true, match the outer bits as well.

The collection you’re seeing here matches – more or less – leaks that have appeared over the past couple of weeks. This iPhone will likely take on a display type not unlike the iPhone 5 at 4-inch diagonally, but will have a backside much closer to that of an iPod touch. Selecting between these five tones – yellow, green, blue, red, and white, will likely be the biggest deciding factor in a user either keeping their cash or laying down an extra bill on the iPhone 5S (or iPhone 6, or just the iPhone 5, as it were).

This machine has been leaked in green before, leading us to believe that either there’s one really tenacious lover of the electric tone giving peeks to multiple users across the days, or the creators of these backsides are really aiming to be a big name in the accessories market soon.

The iPhone 5S meanwhile has been suggested to be an incrementally updated device, bringing with it a display that’s the same as the iPhone 5 while the processor and camera technology surrounding it will get a bit of a boost. These iPhone “Light” models will end up taking the place of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, it’s been suggested, while Apple axes the smaller screen size altogether.

VIA: Apple Daily; C Tech; Engadget

iPhone color rush: “budget” plastic backs leaked is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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With iOS 7 featuring brand new features alongside a brand new design, we guess you could say it’s the operating system’s biggest update to date. However in the past there have been some who immensely disliked the design of iOS […]

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An iOS 7 concept imagines what the upcoming version of iOS would look like running on the 6th generation iPod Nano.

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