Apple's next tablet will reportedly be a smaller iPad Pro

With Apple gearing up to release a 4-inch iPhone dubbed the iPhone 5se next month, it's easy to forget that Apple is also planning to release a brand new iPad model. Over the past few months, it's been widely assumed that the device would be an iPad Air 3; but now comes word via 9to5Mac that Apple's next-gen iPad will, in fact, be a smaller version of the iPad Pro rather than an iPad Air 3.

While this might initially seem like a trivial point about product branding, it does point to Apple releasing a 9.7-inch iPad model with Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard support, two features which launched exclusively with the iPad Pro this past fall.

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