Marco wrote a good piece speculating on the internals of the rumored iPad Mini (or Nano or Junior or whatever). What caught my attention, thou, was this:

iPad2,4 is the 32nm die-shrunk update that quietly replaced the 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad 2 when the iPad 3 was released, yielding better battery life and lower cost, and probably partly responsible for the iPad 2’s price drop to $399.¹

So actually the current ”iPad 2” has a better battery life then the ”iPad 2” that was sold before ”The New iPad” (aka iPad 3) was released? I might have to revise my advice to people interested in buying an iPad; maybe the iPad 3 is not always the way to go.