This tablet was used aluminum shell, similar to existing iPad Mini. However, there is some new design elements, sources since iPad Air 2, for example, in the bottom of the fuselage near the Lightning connector, designed a line of slightly larger speaker hole, instead of the old version of the two lines of holes.

Also mute switch on the tablet has been canceled and was replaced by a microphone.

Industry rumors, iPad mini 4 thickness thinner than the old version, similar to iPad Air 2, but also can not be analyzed from a leaked picture thickness figures.

According to the analysis, the new tablet may use the A8X iPad Air 2 processor, or A9 processor launched later this year.

When Apple will release iPad mini 4, is still unknown, but as usual, Apple may release new products in the fall.

Analysts said that even if Apple iPad Mini upgrade product line, and its functional innovation is very limited, very difficult to arouse consumer desire to buy.

Many in the industry point of view, Apple imitation Samsung Electronics, the big screen of the smartphone, and the hardest hit than the iPad Mini, represented by global small tablet (seventy-eight inches or so). Some analysts believe that the small size of the tablet in the suppression of large-screen phone has become a transitional product, will gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

Tablet PC product line, the industry is virtually certain that Apple is hugely successful imitation of Microsoft Surface Pro3, is developing a commercial tablet 12.9 inches, as the display suppliers LG Electronics company, recently broke the news to do.

Jobs era, Apple tablet will define clear boundaries exist for the consumer and professional equipment, and office use Apple laptops, tablet PCs and notebooks interfere with each other.