It all works pretty well but we’re not convinced that it’s any quicker or more convenient than doing it with a finger and the soft keyboard instead, particularly if you’ve lost most of your handwriting skills in the digital age. You can select words pretty quickly with a swipe of the nib, make gaps in the copy and add in your own notes.
That includes editing documents or entering forms.
The iPad Mini will recognise your Pencil handwriting and turn it into text. In fact, it’s more of a nice extra and not something that everybody is going to want or need. One of the big sells of the iPad Mini experience is its support for the Apple Pencil (second generation). We’re not convinced that we've uncovered its very best uses but having a music player slide over a web browser is good and we can imagine one or two people might sneakily want to stream something on Netflix while splitscreened with a Zoom call. You can choose to put two apps together in either a splitscreen (half and half) or slide-over (a small one laid over a larger one) views. The newly added multitasking feature is certainly handy too.
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Those apps are displayed in a typical tray but also auto-sorted into a series of relevant folders in the App Library section.
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You can add all sorts of interesting widgets to the home pages, such as those pertaining to battery life, Chrome searches, contacts, the Game Center, podcasts, Apple TV and more, depending on the other apps you choose to download. The GUI has a liquid-like flow and almost seems to respond to our will microseconds before we’ve even touched it. Combined with the Apple A15 Bionic chip, it’s a typically slick experience. The iPad Mini 6th generation comes with iPadOS 15. Thankfully, they’re surprisingly inexpensive at the moment. You’ll need a USB-C adapter for wired cans. Sadly, there is one almost inevitable piece of bad news, and that’s that the 3.5mm headphones socket has vanished. Maximum storage size is still 256GB but there are more colour choices with Space Grey, Pink, Purple and Starlight all options for your brushed aluminium finish. The sixth generation iPad Mini is now 5G-enabled.
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The other major internal upgrade is for those who want the cellular model. According to Apple, the A15 brings a six-core CPU that’s 40 per cent faster than that of the older iPad Mini and a five-core GPU that brings an impressive-sounding 80 per cent faster graphics operation.
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That’s third in resources only to the two iPad Pro models. The build of the insides is just as significant, with the A12 Bionic chip having been replaced by the considerably more powerful and up-to-date A15. The front-facer has also seen a resolution boost, going from 7MP to 12MP. The cameras are also now a much more significant part of the device, with the pin-prick of an 8MP rear camera from the previous model now replaced by a 12MP shooter with True Tone flash. Peripherals Support for Apple Pencil (2nd generation)Ĭameras Front-facing 12MP, rear-facing 12MP
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Screen 8.3in LED screen with IPS, 2266 x 1488px at 326ppi,Ĭonnectivity Wi-fi, 5G, Bluetooth 5.0, USB-C There are also stereo speakers on both short edges of the device, which should offer an improved sans-headphone audio experience. The fast-charging and universal USB-C port has replaced Apple’s previous penchant for the proprietary Lightning, and that makes for one less charger and cable to remember to put in your bag. Naturally, there are plenty of other more functional improvements to the build. This once again has that look and feel of a unique device rather than one that, if you rubbed off the Apple logo, could get lost in the line-up of small tablets from other manufacturers. That’s also aided no end by the squarer-cut, utility-chic styling, which compares very favourably to the love letter to chamfering that was the yester-generation. That might not sound like much – particularly when the new model is a tiny bit thicker too – but trimming the fat around the edge of the screen makes the whole thing feel a lot more compact and modern. That takes the screen up from 7.9 inches to 8.3 inches while actually reducing the length of the device by the best part of 8mm. The Touch ID fingerprint reader has moved to the power button on the side. The home button has been scrapped and the screen extended to more closely follow the edges of the diminutive slate, with a steady 9mm bezel running all the way around. Apple has gone back to the drawing board for this, the sixth generation of the iPad Mini, and the result is a real triumph of design.
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