IPad Mini 6 Review: Mini Size, Max Performance!
The New iPad Mini 6 Is Unrivaled in the Small Tablet Market, Offering Top-Tier Performance, Solid Cameras, Great Sound, Apple Pencil Support and All the Pro...
With its redesigned, lightweight build, perfect for one-handed use, the 2021 iPad mini is arguably the best premium tablet for reading and note-taking. For any other scenario you may be finding the bigger iPads unwieldy and your phone too small, this iPad is likely to be just right.
Alternatively, this tablet's versatility and size make it fantastic for single-purpose use cases like turning it into your dedicated car GPS, your smart home hub, a display for your drone and so on.While it may seem that there's no place for premium small tablets in 2021, anyone will likely be able to come up with a cool way to use the new iPad mini for making their life a bit more convenient.
Price and storage
The 2021 iPad mini is now available and comes in two storage options, which are 64GB and 256GB, costing $499 and $649 respectively.
You can also get it with cellular connectivity (including 5G support), in which case the prices jump to $649 for the 64GB model and $799 for the 256GB one.
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Design
As we suspected, based on rumors dating back a few months before its official unveiling – the new 2021 iPad mini is essentially a smaller version of the 2020 iPad Air from a design standpoint.
It has the same modern aluminum build with flat edges and equally-sized bezels, same power button with embedded Touch ID, a USB Type-C port, finally, and a magnetic Apple Pencil dock. No keyboard connector though.
This is a long-overdue and welcome redesign for Apple's mini tablet series, as all previous iPad minis followed the exact same design with big top and bottom bezels, ever since the first iPad mini from ten years ago.
So needless to say, it was time for an iPad mini design refresh, and we're happy to say that we got it, and it looks and feels fantastic.
Obviously costs needed to be cut somewhere, so we only have a single rear camera and no Face ID, which is reserved for only the iPad Pro models.
And some things had to be rearranged due to the small size of the iPad mini 6, namely the volume keys, which are now at the bottom left side of the iPad mini (when holding it in landscape). This is because the top of the tablet, where the volume keys usually are, is just large enough to fit an optional Apple Pencil and nothing more. And yes, the 2021 iPad mini supports the second generation Apple Pencil.
You can get the iPad mini 6 in four colors, including what is apparently the most popular one – Space Gray, in addition to Pink, Purple and Starlight.
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