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: Theres been much talk about whether or not the next iPhone might include , a short-range wireless protocol thats often used for processing payments. Some Android phones have begun to offer this capability in conjunction with to allow you to pay for goods at supporting retailers by just swiping your phone over a reader. (Its also a practice thats not uncommon overseas in Europe and Japan.) Apples announcement of the Passbook app in iOS 6 might seem to lend credence to this theory, but it still seems unlikely that the company will build NFC features into the new iPhone when deployment on the retail side is still limited. Apple has shown in the past that its more than happy to wait for technologies to become more widely used (3G, LTE) before adopting. And, as mentioned above, keep in mind that space inside the iPhone is at a premium, and the addition of NFC would likely require not only a new chip, but also yet another antenna.

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Second only to iPhone rumors have been whispers that the company may bring out a new model of iPad with a 7.85-inch screen. Dubbed the iPad mini, the device would likely feature a non-Retina display with the same resolution as the iPad 2, and would allow Apple for the first time to stake a claim in a market segment to date occupied mostly by Android tablets and the Kindle Fire. Such a device would probably be priced between the iPod touch and the 10-inch iPad.