The iPad Mini’s impressive new features make it a better tablet than ever—only to be betrayed by its higher price. Extremely sharp OLED display is gorgeous. 12 GB of memory. Nano-texture screen is a must for outdoor use.
It’s smaller and lighter—perfect for one-handed use. Landscape webcam is better for video calls. Too expensive for a small tablet, even if it’s premium.
No ProMotion 120-Hz refresh rate. Some thought it might be dead. Some thought it had no place in an iPhone Duo world.
But the iPad Mini isn’t being put out to pasture—it’s getting a massive glow-up. Apple’s smallest tablet has been refreshed—now in its eighth generation—and with it, nearly every aspect of the device has been upgraded. It now has an OLED screen, a faster chip, a thinner chassis, more memory, waterproofing, and much more.
That all comes with a higher price, though, and raises the question of just who the iPad Mini is really for among the other choices in the iPad lineup. I’ll come straight out with it: I love this little tablet. I’ve been using it for about a week, and I happened to take it on a short trip.
The perfect time for it to really shine—and shine, it did. It was the perfect companion for long Lyft rides to the airport and wait times at my gate. The star attraction of the new iPad Mini is its 8.5-inch display.
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