No one really know if the iPad Mini even exists, but that’s not enough to stop the speculation in the blogosphere. It’s also not enough to discourage accessory makers, one of which is already working on some shells for the iPad Mini.

The image at right comes from install or not, a gadget blog. It’s one of a bunch of aftermarket hard shell cases. IorN is reporting that these are the cases for the iPad Mini itself, but if you look through the photos you’ll note that the cases are far too flimsy and don’t have any of the internal work you’d expect. Also, a couple photos show pink shells. Yeah, I don’t think Apple would make a pink iPad Mini.

But if you regard them as simply one accessory maker’s best guess about the iPad Mini, they’re kinda cool.  Look at the cutouts for the buttons, camera, speaker at the bottom,  and more. It’s almost as if this manufacturer read the same iPad Mini rumors that I do.

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