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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com joined by staff writer Josh Lowensohn and Josh today we're talking about the ipad mini rumors tell us where we stand with the rumor mill sure the big rumor is that we will hear about it in the next couple weeks there will be an event you know everybody kind of thought the iphone event was the last one for the year exactly this could be kind of a surprise event mid month and maybe we just see a release later this month of the actual device so this is the first offering in this mini space from Apple when we say many how many are we even talking sure so we're talking about a device about seven point eight five inches so the current iPad is nine point seven inches so it's you know definitely smaller a little bit closer to what we see from some devices like the kindle fire and you know the whole idea is just getting something that's very much like an ipad but smaller okay another hardware specs color anything else sure you know actually been some kind of leaked pictures or what might be leaked pictures that kind of have a white or black style you know not very exciting and then know sort of colors that you get with the whole ipod family but basically just a very simple kind of portrait device with a metal back and of course the glass front all the same ports maybe the new lightning port obviously things like that i'm glad you brought up the ipad where does this new midi fall into the whole spectrum of pricing for apple's gadgets sure between the ipod and the ipad where does it go that's kind of an interesting question because if you look at the new ipod touch they start at three hundred dollars and then if you look at the bottom line ipad which is actually the ipad 2 it's 399 dollars so presumably would be somewhere between then but you know the whole idea of having these smaller tablets is that they would actually be cheaper than the big tablets and if that's a $300 device competing against something that's one hundred fifty dollars i mean they're gonna have to put it somewhere in the two hundred dollar level so release hopefully or announcement and then release hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'm sure the release will obviously happen before the holiday shopping season exactly i mean this is all leading up to november this is when people are buying those gifts for christmas and you know Kwanzaa and whatever else they got to get that out there awesome thanks so much josh lowensohn I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop