Apple Ipad mini announced!

It's official. At the California Theatre in San Jose, Apple has unveiled the iPad Mini. The smaller iPad marks the first expansion Apple has made to the iconic tablet's product line.
As expected, the iPad Mini sports a 7.9-inch 1024x768 display, with narrow bezels on the side. It doesn't quite have cutting edge specs, as its resolution and many of its internals are borrowed from the nearly two-year-old iPad 2. The iPad Mini's killer feature, then, may be its design. It sets new precedents for lightness and thinness, weighing a mere 0.68 lbs (308 grams) and measuring just 7.2 mm thick.
Also as expected, Apple is angling for the educational market. Apple updated iBooks Author, with new templates and widgets for publishers.

Mysteries solved

After many of the tablet's details were leaked in advance, the biggest questions leading up to the event were the iPad Mini's name and price. Despite rumors about an iPad Air, Apple went with the oft-rumored iPad Mini moniker after all.

Broadcast news

For the first time in recent memory, Apple streamed a live broadcast the event. The keynote was broadcast on Apple TV and on Apple's website, provided you were visiting it on a Mac or iOS device with recent software. This was likely a move to help guarantee maximum pre-orders for the brand new product.