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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

A Japanese site (here if you are curious) has got there hands on some of the specs for the iPad Mini. A 7.85" IGZO screen (don't know what IGZO is) and they expect the price point to be $250 - 300. The device will come with an entirely new battery, enabling them to make it significantly thinner (2-3 mm is something like 20%).

Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide

Indium gallium zinc oxide is a semiconducting material which can be used as the channel for a transparent thin-film transistor. It replaces amorphous silicon for the active layer of an LCD screen, and, with a forty times higher electron mobility than amorphous silicon, it allows either smaller pixels (for screen resolutions higher than HDTV) or much higher reaction speed for a screen.