IPad Mini (5th generation)


The fifth-generation iPad Mini is a tablet computer in the iPad Mini line, designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Announced in a press release along with the iPad Air on March 18, 2019, it was the first iPad Mini that was released without a live press event. Its predecessor, the iPad Mini 4, was discontinued on the same day.
It shares a similar design to the iPad Mini 4 and features the Apple A12 Bionic chip, 64 or 256GB storage, a more modernly upgraded 7.9-inch Retina Display with support for Apple Pencil, True Tone display and Bluetooth 5.0. iFixit's teardown shows this iPad Mini is equipped with an upgraded 3GB of LPDDR4X RAM, the same as the iPhone XR.

Features

Hardware

The iPad Mini features the upgraded front camera system of the 7MP camera used since 2016 starting with the iPhone 7 and continued with the iPhone XS, while the rear camera system continues with the older 8MP used since the iPad Air 2 in 2014, so it cannot record in 4K. The iPad Mini uses a Lightning port and has a headphone jack. It has a True Tone display, which allows the LCD to adapt to ambient lighting to change its color and intensity in different environments. It also has a wide color display, which means it can shows more vibrant color compare to the previous generation.
The Apple A12 Bionic chip powering the iPad Mini has a 66% higher clock speed than its predecessor, which had a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor;. The Apple A12 Bionic chip has a 2.49 GHz six-core processor. The iPad Mini is 3x faster than the iPad Mini 4, and does support Apple Pencil.

Reception

rated the Mini 5 as a 8.5 out of 10, praising that it has the same specs as the larger iPad Air and had solid performance while noting that it had a "seven-year-old exterior design with huge bezels" and uses a Lightning port instead of USB-C.

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