Apple is all set to announce it’s first attempt at a small tablet, the iPad mini on the 23rd. The event is quite an important one since the iPad mini will join the ranks of Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire for the battle of the best 7-inch tablet. Of course for any of that to happen, Apple needs to price the iPad mini within the same range as its Android counterparts. Some information on the iPad mini pricing has leaked and the news is better than expected.
The least expensive version of iPad mini will be priced at $329. Two additional WiFi only versions with more storage capacity will be priced at $429 and $529. Whether this is 8, 16 and 32GB or 16, 32 and 64GB, we will only know when the tablet is released. There will also be a cellular versions of these iPads which will be priced $130 over the WiFi only version. This comes out to likely minimum price points of $459, $559, and $659 for the WiFi + Cellular version.
These iPad mini pricing are of course all speculations for now. But at $329 it fits nicely into the rest of the iOS products Apple has. It’s a little more expensive than the $200 Nexus 7, but then again, Nexus 7 doesn’t have 250,000 tablet apps.