I was hoping DisplayMate would chime in on the Mini's screen. Interestingly, he graded the Mini overall slightly higher than the Nexus due to better colour calibration, even though the Nexus has a better gamut.

The bigger news to me is that Mini has the worst battery of the bunch, by quite a margin.

If it's available where you live and you can stand the software, looks like Kindle HD actually has more or less the best hardware.

It looks like the same screen as the iPad two had, which now with the retina displays, and the nice hirez display on the Nexus 7 feels like a step back. For example, the text under the icons feels a bit like when you don't set the native resolution for your new LCD monitor - not sharp. The fact that it is so wide, does help usability. the vgchartz.com homepage fits nicely on it in portrait, while on the Nexus7 it's a bit crowded. But in this situation interestingly, you do notice the low resolution, since everything is smaller.
It's very thin, fells like a portable tablet should, sliding in and out of your bag or pocket like a tablet should (I imagine, never slid one anywhere). Needs hirez screen more than the iPad 2 does/did.

PS: not my personal tablets.

With the great displays Apple has, I'm surprised they gimped out on this one. Must of gotten in the way of 200% profit margins.

The Mini is underwhelming in almost every regard outside of form factor. I expect better from Apple.

Yeah, I was trying to include the availability of Amazon's markets and services when I used the word "availability."

Kindle Fire - 6 countries

Nexus 7 - 8 countries

iPad mini - 34 countries

And if you want to see where the content ecosystems are avilable:

http://www.macstories.net/stories/mapping-the-entertainment-ecosystems-of-apple-microsoft-google-amazon/

This is one of Apple's often-overlooked advantages. It leads in pretty much every category of content distribution except books.

*hugs his ipad 2*