iPad Mini 2: Same on the outside means Retina on the inside?

A new video purports to show the iPad Mini 2 casing, and it's identical to the original's. So what does that bode for the internals?

Rick Broida Senior Editor

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show Travelers). He lives in Michigan, where he previously owned two escape rooms (chronicled in the ebook "I Was a Middle-Aged Zombie").

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Rick Broida

Sept. 11, 2013 10:41 a.m. PT

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If this is really the iPad Mini 2's backplate (right), then all the action is happening on the inside. — If this is really the iPad Mini 2's back plate (right), then all the action is happening on the inside. Unbox Therapy

Yesterday's iPhone event revealed nothing about new iPads, but if a new video is to be believed, there's an iPad Mini 2 waiting in Apple's wings -- and its feature set is definitely open to interpretation.

Unbox Therapy, which recently showed a very convincing-looking iPad 5 shell, claims to have the back plate that will house the iPad Mini 2. Like the white first-gen Mini, it sports an aluminum finish, but this time with a mirrored Apple logo -- same as the rumored iPad 5. Take a look:

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