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Analysts have projected prices starting prices for the "iPad mini" or "iPad Air" to range from $250 to just over $349 or even more, depending on the storage and connectivity options offered by Apple. The debate is over how Apple will "fit" the small iPad, which is thought to have a 7.8-inch screen, into the pricing structure of its current iPod touch, 5, new iPad and iPad 2.

A price tag of $329 was named over the weekend by Mark Gurman, and citing unidentified sources for that price. That number would position the smaller tablet between the new base-model iPod touch at $299 and the low end of the full-size iPad line, the Wi-Fi-only, 16GB iPad 2 at $399. Apple will offer two higher-capacity versions, both Wi-Fi only, "likely" priced at $429 and $529, according to Gurman.

That's more expensive than some, such as Apple watcher John Gruber, expected. "Curious too that none of the prices, for Wi-Fi-only or cellular models, land on "even" $X99 or $X49 numbers -- these prices would look a lot nicer if they were each $30 less," he writes in his .