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With two major devices expected this fall, Apple is surrounded by increasingly more hype and speculation. According to a new report, however, the tech giant will hold two separate events to unveil its next-generation iPhone and its cheaper, smaller iPad Mini.
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Rumors of an iPad Mini have been making waves for a long time now, and for a good reason. With the rise of 7-inch tablet popularity, which began with the Amazon Kindle Fire, and now the Google Nexus 7, Apple has no choice but to consider taking on the market despite Steve Jobs once saying, "7-inch tablets are dead on arrival."
Lexibook, the French educational tablet maker, recently announced the official launch of its new educational tablets for kids. The tablet will be available in the U.S. from Sept. 5 onwards. A preview launch will be held at Toys' R Us stores across the country giving an opportunity to parents to discover the tablets.
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Online retail giant Amazon is planning a big event on Sept. 6, summoning the media but staying mum on details. "Please join us for an Amazon Press Conference," reads the full text of the invite sent out to the media. The event will take place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, where the timing seems perfect for a new line of Kindles, including a new Kindle Fire tablet.
Microsoft has big plans to release its Windows 8 based Surface tablet this year, and there is no doubt the Surface tablet will find success. As you may already know, there are two versions of the Surface, one that runs on Windows 8 RT, and the other, which is more powerful, runs on Windows 8 Pro. That said, only one version of the Surface will gain massive success, and we believe it could likely be the Windows 8 RT version.
Amazon.com Inc sent out invitations on Thursday to a September 6 press conference near Los Angeles, re-igniting speculation about possible new tablet devices from the world's largest Internet retailer.
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