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Sandro Authority we're taking a first hands-on look at the the lion in the room of the 7 inch 8 inch market which is the iPad Mini versus samsung recently announced today in fact the Galaxy Note 8.0 now as you can see both have a very very similar form factor and also aesthetically are quite similar now the iPad wins it for me right here simply because of his brushed aluminum and it's really really nice thin bezel and it's also thinner but it's nice to see Samsung come to market with something innovative with S Pen functionality and hopefully aggressive pricing additionally the Samsung will have a higher ppi count but in terms of the specs what we're looking at is a totally different ballgame due to the fact that iOS is obviously a lot simpler of an operating system and it requires a lot less in terms of hardware specs to run no word on pricing a release date we heard q2 for the know date but in terms of the raw specs we're looking at two hundred and ten millimeters high versus two hundred millimeters high for the iPad Mini and the thickness is also very different as well it's going to be 722 millimeters thick for the iPad Mini versus 7.95 for the Galaxy Note 8 in terms of the weight in the hand the Galaxy Note 8 is going to be weighing in at around 338 grams whereas the iPad Mini is three hundred and twelve grams making a little bit lighter now this has an ex enos Samsung created for 41 2 o'clock to one point seeker one point six gigahertz it's an ARM Cortex a9 with a Mallee 400 GPU the apple is only a dual-core clock at 1 gigahertz but is also an a9 but it has their custom power vr GPU which is actually quite robust now this is an 8 inch display with the Galaxy Note 8 obviously versus the iPad Mini which is 7.9 both are of the IPS LCD variety now the PPI thankfully on the Galaxy Note 8 is going to be a lot higher we're looking at 189 pixels per inch where's the get my iPad Mini it is only gonna be 162 pixels per inch right out of the box actually this is kind of cool the Galaxy Note 8.0 at least the one we're getting here it has micro SIM HSPA+ capability and microSD expansion which is awesome now sadly we don't know whether or not this will be released in North America but internationally you will be able to pick one of these bad boys up and it will have the ability to have a SIM card added to it now this one contains 4600 milliamp hours for the Galaxy Note II and the iPad Mini has 16.3 watt hours so really hard to differentiate their camera wise they're both very similar we're looking at one point three megapixels for the iPad Mini excuse me one point three megapixels for the Galaxy Note 8 versus one point two so really really nothing different there but the fact that this doesn't have any Pen functionality whatsoever means that there's a little bit limited it's sort of a passive media consumption device a lot of people really like it that are looking for a smaller form factor but for anyone that wants to draw notes or take pictures to create the s-pen is going to lend a lot more functionality on the galaxy note 8.0 for anyone that nones Galaxy Note 2 they will know that the S Pen has a lot of cool stuff that you can do and we don't really have time to fully demo that as we're in a little bit of rush mode here but we just want to offer you a first hands-on look at the iPad Mini versus the Galaxy Note 8.0 would tell us which one you think is better you think Samsung's created is something good here or is the iPad still gonna reign supreme star steal a cuvette here from Android authority we're live on the ground at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona