#Ipad mini smart notes update#
#Ipad mini smart notes pro#

#Ipad mini smart notes pro#

But despite all of them I dearly love the iPad Mini and have gone so far as to replace my iPad Pro with one. The iPad Mini can be comfortably held for a long time - like when you’re reading a book. And all too often buttons and icons end up being so tiny that - as Steve Jobs once joked - you sometimes feel like you need to sand your fingers down to tap them. In landscape mode, the keyboard is almost comically large and hides too much of what you’re trying to look at. There are places where some buttons or text are cut off. The other iPadOS concern with the iPad Mini is that Apple doesn’t seem to have fully thought through what it means for it to be running on a smaller display. The fact that the otherwise best line of tablets out there does not is flat out ridiculous. Tablets that run Android, Amazon Fire OS, Windows, and even Chrome OS support multiple user profiles. I still find it punitive - not every family can afford (or wants) to buy an iPad for every person in the household and sharing a device can be a real hassle. Apple continues to refuse to allow iPads to support multiple user accounts (outside of specific education settings, anyway). Speaking of things that everybody just seems to have accepted but is actually a genuine problem that deserves continued pressure: support for multiple users. It also lacks a headphone jack, which is unsurprising but I think worth bringing up here because it could keep some people from buying this device to hand off to a kid. It uses USB-C like a modern device should and therefore is compatible with a wider array of accessories than iOS devices that use the Lightning port. You unlock the iPad mini by resting your finger on the Touch ID sensor on the power button, just like the iPad Air. The squared off sides bring the Mini in line with the iPad Pro and iPad Air’s designs. But the truth is I don’t have any real complaints - I love having the slightly bigger screen than prior Minis and it looks nice.Īpple ditched the home button this generation, so the Touch ID sensor is located in the power button. If I had an actual gripe about the screen, it would be that it doesn’t get bright enough to comfortably use outdoors in bright sunlight.

#Ipad mini smart notes update#

I’ve asked Apple for comment and will update if there’s a reply. I don’t think it’s a big problem, but it’s there.

When I use the iPad Mini in landscape, I can’t see it. It’s usually not noticeable because it often happens vertically instead of horizontally.

It’s a common thing on a lot of screens, you can test it on your own screen at this website.

It’s high-enough resolution, but when scrolling in portrait mode I can see just a little bit of a jelly effect, where one side moves ever-so-slightly faster than the other. The screen also isn’t quite up to the quality you’ll get on the iPad Pro models. The only other storage option is 256GB, which runs $649 (5G versions cost more still). Given that the base model is already 500 bucks for a mere 64GB of storage, I prefer the tradeoff Apple made. I do wish they were a little smaller, but I think doing that would significantly add to the cost of the device. It’s surrounded by smaller, even bezels all around the front of the device. 5G also comes along for the ride, but not the ultra-fast mmWave flavor (no big loss there, given how rare mmWave really is).īut the star of the show is the bigger screen. That means it has flat sides and more squared-off edges, but more importantly it means that the screen is larger, going closer to the edge and filling out the device at 8.3-inches.Īpple also updated the processor to the top-of-the-line A15 Bionic - though I suspect the main reason for that is so that it won’t need to give it a spec bump for a few years. The iPad Mini has been redesigned to match the look and feel of the iPad Pros and iPad Air. The new iPad Mini works with the second-generation Apple Pencil, which charges by sticking to the side of the iPad.