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what's up brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple Viper everything good and bad inside the world of Apple and our contest winners at the end of this show now we all got a little surprised when the iPad Mini with Retina display popped up on Apple's online store a few days ago at 1201 a.m. on tuesday which honestly is way past my bedtime now current wait times are around one two three days for the smaller capacity Wi-Fi models and five to ten days for the 64 and 128 gig models and also cellular models right now now we've heard all the stories about low production issues and delays due to a possible burning issue with sharps displays according to Korean website eTnews and that's not a website about aliens now let's tear down from I fixin reveals the internal upgrades we know about with the a7 processor that appears to match the one point three gigahertz processor in the iphone 5s instead of the 1.4 gigahertz processor that's in the ipad air the 2048 x 1536 resolution display used from this initial launch batch are from LG with a significantly larger battery that supports the retina display and offers the same roughly 10 hour battery life also according to Geekbench 3 benchmarks the ipad mini retina brings five times the performance compared to the original Mini which is just a huge jump so get them while they're hot if it's worth you know 399 bucks to also an Apple TV news according to report from NPD DisplaySearch apple's long-rumored TV plans which are far from being concrete do to hang up with content deals have been pushed off to the side with the rollout of wearables being a higher priority right now now I've been saying we'd see an iWatch before an Apple TV because of these dynamics the report also says Apple appears to be lining up resources for a television product introduction in the second half of 2014 with two to three large screen sizes and 4k resolution but again the hangup has always been the content also KGI Securities analyst ming-chi Kuo who you know always likes to get his name and a story agrees that due to difficulties in establishing an apple TV supply chain and locking down content deals with the cable operators he believes the TV project will be delayed to the end of 2015 or early 2016 at its earliest and you know I'm still waiting to get smell-o-vision by then I'll write in i watch rumors the Korea Herald reports that NPD DisplaySearch also believes that Apple's wearable i watch product would come in a 1 point 7 inch screen size for men's watches and a smaller one point 3 inch screen size for women but what about the woman who wants a big watch or the man with skinny risk that wants a tiny watch and what's an apple bite without an iphone rumor according to a Bloomberg report Apple is developing new iPhone designs including get this bigger screens with curved glass and enhanced sensors that can detect different levels of pressure now their source says screen sizes of 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches on the works something we've seen over two years ago but I so don't get the real need for a curved screen and unless you want a bigger bulge in your pants so one zippy order date alright let's get to the quick bites Apple has launched a new page on its itunes store for American Red Cross donations that will go directly to relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines now one hundred percent of the donation goes directly to the Red Cross and you can donate as little as five bucks so I really encourage you to give anything you can to this tragedy overseas now let's shift gears a little bit and if I told you two companies are back at it in court who could they possibly be well if you guessed Apple and Samsung you win after a judge in March invalidated almost half of apples 1 billion dollar verdict in their patent infringement case a retrial is taking place now to see how much Samsung actually still owes now they're still on the hook to pay the big a roughly six hundred million dollars bocina reports Apple told the course recently it still wants an additional 380 million dollars in damages just slightly less than the original 410 million how nice of them so let you know the final decision whenever this case gets resolved alright here's some eye candy for you Apple has shared some additional renderings of their proposed Apple campus to spaceship that the city of Cupertino gave its final approvals for last month we've seen a lot of the exterior but new renderings of what it might be like working inside especially with this modern cafeteria or check this out the lobby of the auditorium building that looks like it could really be the command center when the campus needs to take off now my favorite here is this blurry girl who really gets around the campus like a lot and who wouldn't want to drive into an underground parking lot that looks like a spaceport that's awesome all right finally let's get to our winners for the two copies of NBA 2k14 I asked you guys to send in your pictures of you decked out in your best NBA gear and I got a lot of them so congrats go out to Silas on Twitter who this guy is legit he sleeps with shirts jerseys and basketballs which isn't weird at all honorable mention goes to Derek Rossi who is reppin my Golden State Warriors so I'll find something around my office for you and I didn't really notice that many Laker fans since they aren't good at all this year also congrats go to jail all day who even got his mama involved which I appreciate even though you're repping the heat so there you go guys we'll be in touch that's going to do it for this week's show send us your email to the apple byte at cnet com I'll get to as many as I can i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next time for another bite of the Apple I