Those looking forward to picking up a new, finally refreshed iPad mini could be set to get a tablet that supports both the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard, according to a new report by developer Steve Troughton-Smith.
We may have just seen the first images of the new iPad mini that is said to be in the works, with photos shared via Twitter looking very iPad mini-like.
According to new certification, 9.7-inch iPad 2018, iPad mini 5 likely coming next month, probably at Apple's March event.
Apple has officially announced a new 9.7-inch iPad 2017 model which replaces the iPad Air 2, while also reducing the price of iPad mini 4. Here are the details.
The original iPad mini, first made publicly available back in October 2012, has seemingly come to the end of its shelf life. The internal hierarchy within Apple has given the order to silently remove the first-generation iPad mini from sale, which appears to apply to Apple Store retail outlets as well as the company's Web store. The device may have been removed from sale through official Apple retail channels but the effect that it made on the future of the product genre is still apparent in the company's portfolio.
Apple tends to be pretty good at tweaking its products year-on-year in order to maintain consumer interest, but it certainly bucked the trend with the iPad mini 3. One of the biggest disappointments on record from the Cupertino company, it added Touch ID, a gold color option and not a lot else, yet Apple still felt that it warranted a major price bump. It has been rumored that the Mac maker is hastily preparing an upgrade, which may also include some design alterations, and a new leak of the purported rear shell sheds some light on this.
The Apple rumor mill is churning again, and this time it's the iPad mini which finds itself caught in the controversy. Reports are coming in that Apple may be looking to ditch the iPad mini lineup of devices in favor of the upcoming larger-screened iPad Pro.
Analysts are notoriously hit and miss when it comes to their predictions at the best of times, and that goes doubly so when you throw Apple and its wall of secrecy into the mix. That doesn't stop analyst upon analyst trying to guess and double-guess what the folks in Cupertino have up their collective sleeves, and it doesn't stop us from listening to them either. Which is fine, so long as their claims come with a healthy dose of salt.
Consumers living in all initial release countries have been frantically descending on Apple Retail Stores to get their hands on the iPad mini 2 with Retina display. The smaller form-factor tablet has proven to be extremely popular in the time that has followed its first-generation launch with the recent introduction of the Retina display and A7 processor only extending that popularity. The limited inventory in online and physical retail outlets show just how popular the new iPad mini has become, but those owners who also have the larger iPad Air may just find themselves comparing color output on the Retina display and finding themselves a little confused.
It seems that we can't have any big Apple product release these days without it being laden with some sort of baggage. The infamous 'antennagate’ debacle of the iPhone 4 was perhaps the biggest blow up that we've seen lately, but that doesn't mean that other products haven't had their fair share of issues. It seems that the very recent release of the iPad mini 2 with Retina display may be the latest Apple hardware to suffer from an issue that could very well be blown out of all proportion.
