Apple Making An iPad mini?

An iPad mini has been spotted in the wild! Does it look like Apple has finally given in to the 17.8-cm (7-inch) tablet space

Apple might become even more competitive in the tablet space. Apple's iPad, even when it offers a bigger screen size and loads of applications from the App Store, retails at a lower or equivalent price than most 17.8-cm tablets do -- Samsung Galaxy Tab is one of them.

This move could also be speculated to wipe off RIM completely from the tablet space. Blackberry maker RIM is slated to launch their own version of the tablet, the PlayBook, in the second quarter of 2011. iPad, which already has a huge lead over others in the tablet space could get a further boost with iPad mini and make others such as Motorola, LG and NEC (most of them on Android) scurrying for cover.