The Home button now doubles as a Touch ID fingerprint sensor. There is also a new golden paint-job available along with the usual Space Gray and Silver. 32GB model is not axed, but yoy can pick from 16, 64 and 128GB options.
Everything else is completely identical to the iPad mini 2 - the 7.9" Retina display, the Apple A7 chipset, the 5MP rear camera, and the thin and light aluminum unibody. No matter how small the hardware bump however the Apple iPad mini 3 remains one really powerful slate, positioned near the top of the food chain as far as tablets go. Let's explore it in detail.
Key features:
- Metal uni body, 7.5mm slim, 331g of weight
- Optional LTE connectivity (Cat. 4, 150Mbps downlink)
- 7.9" 1,536 x 2,048 LED-backlit IPS LCD with 324 ppi pixel density
- Apple iOS 8
- Dual-core 1.3 GHz Apple A7 chipset, M7 motion co-processor, PowerVR GX6430 GPU, 1GB of RAM
- 5MP auto-focus camera, 1080p@30fps, 1.2MP front-facing camera
- 16/64/128GB of built-in storage
- Touch ID fingerprint sensor built into the Home button
- 6,471 mAh battery
- No microSD slot
- Pricey memory upgrades, 32GB version should have been standard
- No NFC connectivity, Apple Pay has limited functionality
- Apple iOS 8 still relies on iTunes for music and file transfers
Quite expectet
dly, the iPad mini 3 inherits all limitations the previous generation suffered from, but Apple made it clear throughout the years some things will probably never change. So the lack of memory expansion and the non-users replaceable battery shouldn't be a surprise by now.
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