iPad Mini? iPad Air? What Should Apple Call The Newer Smaller iPad? [Let's Talk]

Buster

Dude, what is Apple going to call this newer, thinner, smaller iPad they're about to launch? iPad Junior? iBook? iPad Mini? iPad Air? iPad 3? I have no idea anymore. Last night I went to bed completely confident that Apple was going to probably call it something simple like "iPad Mini," but then I woke up to some new renders of the smaller iPad and talk about how Apple might call it the iPad Air.

Now I'm second guessing the whole iPad Mini thing, and leaning towards iPad Air. I really want Apple to call it an iBook, just because I want to read iBooks on my iBook, but that's probably not going to happen. Are there some better possible names for a smaller iPad? What do you think Apple should call the "iPad Mini." I need to know!

Sean Carney

iPod Touch

Brian Gregory May

iTab?

Brian Gregory May

Sean Carney said:

iPod Touch

It's amazing how little some people think.

Zbaratskiy

iPad Pro..... (next gen iPad, not mini version of it)... especially if MS Office will become available in full on iOS devices

FriarNurgle

I think it'll just be the iPad, just a 7" version. Apple has already moved away from version #'s for the iPad, I feel the same will occur with the iPhone BTW. Regarding a smaller iPad, it'll just be called the iPad and be differentiated by the size. We have an 11" and 13" MBA and 13" and 15" MBP. Not we will have a 7" and 10" iPad.

Lane Jasper

liliPad

Will Carey

James Kendrick at ZDNet just wrote a solid article about how "iBook" seems to be the appropriate name for the smaller iPad.

Tydunc

iNeedthis? Or iMiddle, how about iPod Huge?

J1powel1

I actually agree that they will rebrand this as the iPod Touch. Why would you ever buy the current iPod touch when you could buy an "iPad Mini" instead? Does the same things with a bigger screen. Makes no sense to have both products.

theobserving

How about they call it what they call it, since no one here has any weight in the actual decision?

How many people were calling the iPad the iSlate for months before it was announced or referred (and are still referring) to the iPhone 4s as the iPhone 5. In both cases, there were a lot of people confused, up in arms and irritated that it wasn't exactly what they thought (or "knew") it would be, due in large part to the fact that people on websites "theorized" and decided for themselves what those products should be called.

So give it a rest and let's wait and see if, what and when it happens. No level of hypothesis will will the name you use into usage, and it's just a way for sites like this to generate traffic and search hits.

koshermeal©

mini pad

Bulldogger123

iPad lite

Alvern

I don't think they could call an iBook or anything without "iPad" in the title. They've built this cool vibe around the name, and to rename the device would confuse consumers.

I personally think they'll go with the iPad Mini.

jfc123

How about they call it what they call it, since no one here has any weight in the actual decision?

How many people were calling the iPad the iSlate for months before it was announced or referred (and are still referring) to the iPhone 4s as the iPhone 5. In both cases, there were a lot of people confused, up in arms and irritated that it wasn't exactly what they thought (or "knew") it would be, due in large part to the fact that people on websites "theorized" and decided for themselves what those products should be called.

So give it a rest and let's wait and see if, what and when it happens. No level of hypothesis will will the name you use into usage, and it's just a way for sites like this to generate traffic and search hits.

Calm down! We are just having fun guessing what it might be. And I don't think that anyone (besides you apparently) cared that Apple just called it the iPhone 4s.

technochick

Brian Gregory May said:

Sean Carney said:

iPod Touch

It's amazing how little some people think.

More like how much they do. The iPod touch is stale and wasn't even revamped last year. Jobs said a small iPad would be a fail due to use issues but the iPod Touch already has a UI designed for a smaller screen and adapting it up to a 5-7 inch model still works great. And depending on the size that Apple goes for, the retina iPhone/touch apps wouldn't need much of an adjustment if any to stay within retina size.

Plus all the leaks show the bezel etc from the Touch rather than the iPad, furthering the suggestion that this is no 'iPad mini' but rather a new IPod Touch that is now more than just an iPhone that doesn't make calls or have cell data.

Markus Reisenberg

iPad mini would be more coherent to the product line (compare the Mac mini) than iPad lite or nano. Or Apple will go hardcore and tell the iPad mini "the 7-inch iPad".

MacHead84

Im just ready for the iPad Air "S" model next year! Amirite!

mr_bee

Zbaratskiy said:

iPad Pro..... (next gen iPad, not mini version of it)... especially if MS Office will become available in full on iOS devices

I agree with your choice of name, but Office will never be available for iOS. For starters, suites are not allowed on iOS, but also if they made an iOS version they would be cutting their own platform off at the knees.

What you will likely see is the same thing they are doing for regular PC's which is steering everyone to "Office 360" (online version). If you ever see Office on iOS it will just be a link to the web apps only.

assyrianpride

Call it the giant iPhone. Which is basically what it is. Except it doesn't have a phone.

Rackmaster

Shwunk(tm), or iPad Baby