Long title for testing and stuff and things, maybe.

If you've been shopping for a handheld 7-inch tablet -- you know the kind: smaller than an iPad, bigger than an iPhone, about the size of a paperback book (remember those?) -- now must be tempting time to shine up the old credit card, close your eyes and just buy one already. But hold on, partner: you might be kicking yourself a month from now if you rush and buy one today.

There are plenty of alluring options out there now. The new Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and the even newer Barnes & Noble's NOOK HD, for example, both boast terrific, iPad-quality screens and low $199 price tags. Google's warmly-received Nexus 7, running the latest version of the Android operating system, has been out for a few months at the $199 price level; last year's Kindle Fire, meanwhile, has been knocked down to a flea market price of $159.

I won't guarantee that the forthcoming iPad Mini will outshine the new Kindle Fire or NOOK, nor is it likely to cost just $199 like those two do. But if Apple does release a smaller iPad this month, I can guarantee this: Customers are going to buy millions and millions of them, which will put pressure on other companies and sellers to lure shoppers to their own tablet some other way.

Test text stolen from Huffington Post.