
That’s clearly what Apple wants you to do. What about iPad mini 2 owners? Stay put or buy an iPad Air/Air 2 or iPhone Plus.
AUDULUS 3 FOR IPAD MINI UPGRADE
Should you upgrade if you own an iPad mini? Yes, to an iPad mini 2. After all the original 16GB Air is now the same price as the 16GB iPad mini 3, which is essentially an iPad mini 2. Touch ID may be crucial to Apple’s long term strategy and therefore to get into the mini range, but otherwise the limited changes made to the iPad mini 3 feel like Apple pushing existing mini owners towards either the Air range or the iPhone 6 Plus.
AUDULUS 3 FOR IPAD MINI FULL SIZE
Whereas the original iPad mini quickly overtook the full size iPad as top seller, now it seems Apple has gotten sick of the cheaper version taking centre stage. What this does suggest, however, is a drastic change of priorities at Apple. There’s no point dancing around this: the iPad mini 3 is a major disappointment.Īpple feels like it has done the bare minimum to improve upon the iPad mini 2 and while a storage bump and Touch ID will tempt some, selling last year’s technology at the same price (at least with the 16GB entry level) is going to frustrate. And with new features in iPadOS 15, iPad mini is even more versatile. Get things done with the simplicity of Multi-Touch gestures, use multiple apps at once, and handwrite in any text field with Scribble. Read more: iPhone 6 review, iPhone 6 Plus review iPad mini is powered by iPadOS, enabling you to do so much, so easily. Given the lack of battery improvements in the iPad Air 2 as well, it seems Apple feels it has hit a sweet spot with the iPad range and - rightly or wrongly - is happy to tread water. In fact Apple now lists the entire iPad Air and mini ranges as carrying the same battery life: 10 hours of WiFi surfing, 9 hours of cellular surfing. It won't come as any surprise at this point to learn that the iPad mini 3 has the same battery life as the iPad mini 2. Magnets enable the case to be mounted to any of the LAUNCH stations or any metallic surface in portrait or. LAUNCH Case grants you complete access to all iPad buttons, microphones, cameras, and speakers with the durability of withstanding drops up to 6 ft. Apple will be hoping the image manipulation improvements within iOS 8 paper over the cracks, because the iPad mini 3 is now distinctly behind the game. IPORT LAUNCH (LaunchPort) is a wireless charging system for iPad designed to hold, charge and protect iPad on a table, wall or in a vehicle.

There is also no burst mode and no slow motion recording, though iOS 8 does bring support for timelapse. In a somewhat unprecedented move, the iPad mini 3 features exactly the same sensor as the last two generations of iPad mini. Apple couldn't possibly also leave the iPad mini 3 with the same ageing 5 megapixel, f2.4 iSight camera and 720p-only video as the iPad mini 2 and original iPad mini could it? Yes it could.
