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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com joined by staff writer Josh Lowensohn to talk about the latest roundup and iPad Mini rumors so Josh we hear that an announcement might be coming soon sure so this is an announcement about the announcement really there was a report this morning from all things D that said we would have an event on the twenty-third of October which is a tuesday so that gives us about a week to get that invite okay and that means that the product could then come out ten days to two weeks after the announcement typically for Apple right yeah they like to give themselves some time to get the the product out to stores of course they have almost 400 retail stores now and presumably this will be sold in places like target and walmart you know they got to get those devices out and it takes time and to make that happen so you can expect a little bit of a delay right but sooner is obviously better because let's not forget holiday shopping has begun the holidays are right around the corner and this could be a hot hot gift I'll hide this yeah there's no doubt that it will be a sought-after gift and they really have to get it out at the same time as a lot of competitors you're putting out their devices amazon already has their 7-inch tablet out with the kindle fire but they also have a larger version coming out in early november and you can't leave out Barnes & Noble which has their nook HD that's coming out too I mean it's a very very kind of growing market that Apple's not even in yet right let's reiterate what is the size again for this iPad Mini presumably or what are the rumors for it sure the rumors are that it's going to be seven point eight five inches to put that in comparison the current iPad is nine point seven inches so it's smaller the whole idea is that you could potentially use it one hand you use it in the subway and then it's just smaller and talk to us about price do we have any idea what these are going to retail for sure a bunch of rumors and supplier reports have put this around 250 to 300 dollars you've got to think that they have to price this less than the current ipad of course you can buy the lowest iPad the iPad to it three hundred ninety-nine dollars so they have to do it cheaper than that but they also run into this kind of problem with the low end which is their new ipod touch and this is a device that starts at three hundred dollars for their their new and latest and greatest version that's crazy so this ipad mini what has a lot more capability than an iPod Touch could be 50 bucks cheaper that's where you run in some other problems so I mean it could it could even be more than that we don't know hopefully Apple will kind of explain that I think they need to explain that because these new ipods just came out they're not going to change the price absolutely all right well as we get closer to the possible release date i'm sure more views will start leaking so we'll check back in with you then right thank you so much Josh Lowensohn I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop