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iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi and iPad Mini Wi-Fi

Apple announced two products on 2 November 2012: iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi and iPad Mini Wi-Fi.

It was the 7th of 10 dated moments the archive holds for 2012, 10 days after the previous one, 23 October 2012.

iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi product photograph

Zach Vega · CC BY 2.0

What Apple announced

iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi

iPad · iPad · discontinued 16 October 2014

The iPad (4th generation) (marketed as iPad with Retina display, colloquially referred to as the iPad 4) is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple. Compared to its predecessor, the third-generation iPad, the fourth-generation iPad maintained the Retina Display but featured new and upgraded components such as the Apple A6X chip and the Lightning connector, which was introduced on September 12, 2012. It shipped with iOS 6, which provides a platform for audio-visual media, including electronic books, periodicals, films, music, computer games, presentations and web content. Like the third-generation iPad it replaced, it was supported by five major iOS releases, in this case iOS 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

It was announced at a media conference on October 23, 2012, as the fourth generation of the iPad line, and was first released on November 2, 2012, in 35 countries, and then through December in ten other countries including China, India and Brazil. The third generation was discontinued following the fourth's announcement, after only seven months of general availability.

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iPad Mini Wi-Fi

iPad · iPad mini · discontinued 19 June 2015

The iPad Mini (stylized as iPad mini), known retrospectively as the iPad Mini 1, is the first generation of the mini tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on October 23, 2012, as the fourth major product in the iPad line and the first of the iPad Mini line. It features a reduced screen size of 7.9 inches (20 cm), compared to the 9.7-inch (25 cm) display on standard iPads at that time.

The first generation iPad Mini was succeeded by the iPad Mini 2.

iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi product photograph
iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi

Zach Vega · CC BY 2.0

iPad Mini Wi-Fi product photograph
iPad Mini Wi-Fi

Pixeden.com · CC BY 3.0

Also in 2012

Sources

  1. iPad (4th gen) Wi-Fi · Wikipedia
  2. iPad Mini Wi-Fi · Wikipedia

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