According to new reports emerging from Asia on Friday, there may be a very good reason why we've haven't yet seen the new Retina iPad mini.

Sources close to the device's production reveal that Apple has been forced to delay the launch and even the announcement of the device's formal launch date because the manufacturer could "not solve the burn-in problem in the LCD panel to be applied to the iPad mini retina product, which is caused by the malfunction of the TFT."

The Korean news outlet confirms that Sharp's LCD burn-in is not visible to the human