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Touchscreen computers sized between phones and laptops, usually running mobile operating systems and sold with stylus and keyboard accessories.
Amazon's Alexa Tablet 12 Pro ships Oct. 14 at $499.99, about $249 below the $749 starting price of Apple's iPad Air M4. With keyboard and stylus the gap grows to about $407, and for a work fleet the choice then turns on apps, cellular needs and assistant controls.
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Amazon's $550 Alexa Tablet 12 Pro comes with the Play Store and supports keyboard and stylus accessories, Engadget reported. The store fixes the Fire tablets' long-standing app gap, while a smartphone chip limits how much work the keyboard can do.
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Apple's next entry-level iPad will skip the A18 and use the A19 chip, according to a leak from MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. Anyone ordering base iPads for a team now has to decide whether the A16 model on sale is worth buying before its successor lands.
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Images in Apple's own code, found by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, show an A20 Pro iPad mini 8, a HomePod mini 2 and a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K. Apple has set no date, so tablet buyers and app teams can plan on the hardware details sooner than on the October window the reports expect.
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Apple's own code describes an A20 Pro iPad mini that Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects to launch by the end of October. Anyone about to buy the current A17 Pro model should wait those few weeks, unless the purchase has a deadline that lands first.
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Gizmodo argues the Duo's 7.6-inch inner screen and the iOS 27 dock leave Apple's 8.3-inch tablet nowhere to go. For the person buying either one, the decision still turns on a $1,300 gap and a missing magnet.
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