Apple iPad mini will present at a special event on 23 October

Apple announces new iPad mini tablet at a special event to be held on October 23. It is reported by All Things Digital, citing sources familiar with the situation.

Earlier in the network appeared rumors that the compact model debuts iPad tablet on 17 October, but Apple has not sent out invitations to journalists, as is usually the week before of the Event. On the eve of publication DigiTimes wrote that the transfer of iPad mini presentation at a later date associated with the production problems of the partners Apple.

Alleged presentation "apple" mini-tablet will be three days before the official release on the market of the new Windows 8 platform and "tablets" Microsoft Surface - a new player in the market of tablet PCs, says All Things Digital.

According to unofficial data, iPad mini will have a screen with a diagonal of 7.85 inches with a resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels instead of 9.7-inch displays used in iOS-plates to date. Price of the device, presumably, will be about 300-350 dollars.

iPod touch 5G: it showed "autopsy"?

Site iFixit, who at one time to "finish" with the iPhone 5 , set to a new media player Apple - iPod touch fifth generation . Detailed description of how the need to disassemble the device and what is expected in a curious person, appeared on the website edition.

Unlike the iPhone 5, which was built on the last A6 processor and 1 GB of memory, ultra-player Apple (only 6.1 mm in thickness) runs on A5 chip with a frequency of 800 MHz and has 512 MB of RAM from a company Hynix. The same processor has the second-generation iPad (iPad 3 received A5X with quad graphics) and iPhone 4S. The memory module is enclosed in a single package with the chip.

iPod touch 5G left (thickness 6.1 mm) and the iPhone 5 right ( thickness  7.6 mm)

In the iPod touch 5G uses flash memory type NAND production company Toshiba, which means that Apple continues to reduce its dependence on components of the main competitor in the mobile market, Samsung. And, logically, were found inside the two chambers, one of which is a 5-megapixel iSight, supports video recording 1080p, as well as three-axis gyroscope from STMicroelectronics.

iFixit notes some interesting facts. Thus, in the iPod touch 5G was recorded less reliable as compared to the iPhone 5, the button Home, the design of which was changed in favor of the small thickness of the device. Despite the dramatic improvement in Retina-display with enlarged to 4 inches diagonal in the new player, the quality of construction, it is far behind the LCD panel used in the iPhone 5.

IFixit also draws attention to the issue of maintainability iPod touch - this indicator is clearly not a new player is the leader, deserving of all three points from a possible 10. To compare the new iPhone for ease of disassembly awarded as much as 7 points.