iPad mini, New Kindles, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Friday, August 31, 2012
iPad mini, New Kindles, and more - 90 Seconds on The Verge: Friday, August 31, 2012
2012-08-31
it's friday august 31st 2012 I'm Nilay
Patel and I'm licensed to pinch and zoom
this is 90 seconds on the verge late
last night we saw even more evidence of
new kindle fires according to seeing
that the company will actually launch
two models into that next week rumor has
it also released a new Ian Kindle with a
quote paperwhite backlit display the
alleged kindle fire pictures paint
Amazon is a company focused on
minimalism as in what is the minimum
amount of effort we can put into
designing these products Nokia's next
windows phones might have insane cameras
League shots of a Lumia 920 suggest a
4.5 inch display and an ultra-high
resolution also weaker images that was
supposedly mid-range 4.3 inch Lumia 820
both devices are expected to be
announced at nokia's own event next
Wednesday in other Microsoft news we got
our first look at Windows RT running on
third-party hardware the super well
named Samsung at Eve tab although
Microsoft said desktop mode would be
restricted in RT we did see file
explorer and other desktop apps overall
however the focus remains on the new
start screen and the interface formerly
known as metra and finally looking to
next next month bloomberg says a seven
point eight five inch iPad Mini will be
launching in October the iphone is
rumored to be refreshed in September
leaving a couple weeks of space between
it and the rumored iPad Mini between all
these events and windows 8 launching
October 26 means nobody on the verge
staff will get any sleep until Halloween
that's it for today's top stories tune
in tomorrow for something about how drug
abuse is leading the weird laptop
injuries is that it that's the story
goodbye
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