Apple also announced the new iPad Mini along with iPad 9th gen today. The new iPad Mini 6 comes in four amazing colors with space gray, pink, purple, and starlight. The new iPad Mini 6 will go on sale from Sept 24 in the US and 28 other countries. Currently, the iPad Mini 6 is on pre-orders.
Design:
iPad mini will likely be a compact version of the fourth-generation iPad Air. The iPad Mini 6 will feature an 8.4-inch Liquid Retina display with a 60Hz refresh rate and uniform bezels. It got dimensions of 206 x 137 x 6.1mm. Yes, finally the new iPad Mini 6 will come with narrower bezels without the physical home button aka Touch ID.
On the back, we got the all-aluminum body with a single rear camera with LED flash. On the front, we just got a bezel-less display without any notch this time. As expected the iPad Mini 6 will get the Touch ID sensor mounted on the power button. On the bottom, the new iPad Mini 6 ships with a USB Type-C port this time with speaker mesh on either side. The source expects the iPad Mini 6 got insane speakers for the best sound quality.
Specs:
The new iPad Mini comes with 8.3 inches Liquid Retina display with narrow borders. The display comes with 500 nits of brightness, a P3 wide color gamut, anti-reflective screen coating, True Tone support.
It is powered by the latest Apple A15 Bionic processor. The 6-core CPU delivers a 40 percent jump in performance, and the 5-core GPU delivers an 80 percent leap in graphics performance compared to the previous generation of an iPad mini. Advanced machine learning (ML) functions are powered by a 16-core Neural Engine and new ML accelerators in the CPU, delivering 2x faster ML tasks than its predecessor.
Yet again the new iPad Mini 6 features a 12MP center stage ultra-wide selfie shooter. On the back, there is a 12MP single camera with Focus Pixels and a larger aperture & LED flash. The iPad Mini 6 becomes the first-ever Mini to feature a USB Type-C port along with 5G support. It comes with Wifi-6E & Apple Pencil 2nd Gen support & runs on iPad OS 15.
Pricing:
The new Wi-Fi models of iPad mini are available with a starting price of $499 (Rs.37,000/-) & Wifi+5G at $649 (Rs.47,900/-) in the US. It will go on sale from Sept 24. The new iPad Mini 6 will set you back as it starts at Rs.46,990/- for Wifi only 64GB and Wifi+Cellular at Rs.60,990/- in India.
