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Are lots of sources talking about an iPad mini, or is one source talking to lots of outlets?

I told you on the Wednesday, Thursday, Mac OS can of a report

report from Bloomberg saying Apple is planning to launch a new tablet

before the end of the year, one that will be both smaller and less

expensive than the iPads currently available.

Now the Wall Street Journal says it's heard word that component suppliers in the Far East are

gearing up to make a tablet for Apple that's smaller than the iPads currently available.

Quoting the journal, officials at the component suppliers who declined to be named said

this week that Apple has told them to prepare for mass production of its smaller tablet.

That production, by the way, is supposed to start in September.

Badea.

The journal says analysts say a smaller tablet could help Apple maintain its tablet dominance.

You know the tablet dominance it has so far had no trouble maintaining?

No comment from Apple for the journal piece. You know the louder the noise gets the harder it is to ignore.

Here's my question though. Assuming the thing is real will Apple sell it as an iPad mini or is a larger

iPod touch? See if they sell it as a smaller iPad they stick a

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