Tablet Pad: iPad mini 4 – User Reviews

Some time ago I decided to buy their first tablet. I am a person that easily comes to spending money (less the legwork), so infatuated with iOS and appearance iPads purchased a mini iPad 4 64GB version with WiFi gold (without 4G). Do you regret your decision? Not at all. To purchase took place at the end of October last year, that is somehow about a month after the release of the device. Now we are in August, and I have my tablet I could know in depth, so I decided to write your review for Tabletowo. Let’s get started!

Specifications

First, a few dry facts. iPad mini 4 was presented at the conference in just a few seconds. They were told at that time that is just ipad air 2 in a smaller version. Of course, you guessed it, is quite different. Small iPad has Apple A8 processor, not A8X – like its bigger brother. These processors are different cores – more iPad are three lesser – two. Fortunately Miniak got 2 GB of RAM, although another castration was a graphics – 4 mini tests graphics AnTuTu performs worse than the iPhone 6/6 Plus.

Specifications iPad mini 4:

IPS LCD display 7.9 “with a resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels
2-core processor Apple A8 1.5 GHz Cyclone
graphics PowerVR GX6450,
2 GB RAM,
storage 16/64/128 GB; the lack of microSD card reader,
8 megapixels rear, front 1.2 megapixels,
The battery capacity of 5124 mAh,
4G (LTE version of 4G)
Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac,
Bluetooth 4.2,
Touch ID (1st. gen.).

Price in official Apple store for the base model (16GB WiFi) to 1699 zł.

Available color is silver, gold and gray stellar. Silver and Gold have white fronts, while the Space Gray with black front.

box

the box is minimalist, has a white color and graphics indexing our device from the side. Colour iPad on the box it depends on what color tablet chose. packaging as the package is neat – like Apple should.

more important is what we find in the middle. and this is of course the iPad, power supply, kabelek Lightning and several papers and two stickers with the bitten apple. We will not find in the box is nothing more a pity, because EarPods headphones would be a nice addition.

Construction, appearance

the device is constructed from a single piece of aluminum and glass. of course, such a structure can not be demolished therefore has no access to the battery. the fitting elements is perfect. metal seems to be quite resistant to scratches, however, vulnerable to scratches is the Apple logo – very smooth, metallic mirror.

the right side of the iPad placed the volume buttons, the left turn is empty. The top edge of the device is the port mini jack 3.5 mm, which in my case is ugly and soiled the wake / lock. At the bottom we find speakers and port Ligtning and … That’s it. There are no other ports or connectors. In the version with 4G we find yet drawer card NanoSIM.

in the upper left corner, so the tablet positioned iSight camera 8 megapixels. it is worth mentioning that the camera is covered with sapphire glass slide, so in theory we are not able to scratch under normal use.

If you already Glass sapphire question, it is still one place where we can find them, namely, is it covered with the Touch ID.

Glass covering the display tablet after my long use seem almost intact, however, I found it already two scratches. Above the screen is a webcam FaceTime and sensor lighting.

the screen quite easily collect fingerprints and provided in versions with white front device is not very cumbersome, so in a version with a black front is very unsightly. I would recommend, therefore, the color of gold or silver. If anything about frames question, is certainly the device could be smaller. There is a lot of undeveloped space, but it is already in Apple – also in smartphones.

You also have to mention this, how thin is the tablet. This is exactly 6.1 mm thick. Of course there are thinner devices such as the Galaxy Tab S2, but it is an amazing feeling. Weight of the device is also impressive – just 299 grams.

display

display iPad mini 4, until recently, was the best mapping from color display from the Apple stable. Now, as far as I am aware, is better iPad Pro 9.7 . This does not change the fact that the screen with a resolution of 7.9 “2048 × 1536 pixels 4: 3 and the density of 326 ppi (the famous Retina Display), combined with a very expressive colors and deep blacks , looks great. I had not so long ago, in parallel with the iPad, Samsung Galaxy S3 (now I already have the iPhone) and I can safely say that the displays of the two devices can compete with each other.

After communion iPad is very difficult for me to look at the screen of his laptop, where the colors seem to be so cruelly faded, I do not know how else to know the difference between the colors. I am not exaggerating.

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I think that viewing angles are good. Degradation of color in principle does not occur, but loses much of its screen brightness when viewed from a significant deviation angle.

Some weak watch movies on the screen of such proportions (remember: 4: 3). We see then two big black stripes, and the video is displayed between them. Then wasted a lot of space.

Speaking of the screen, it is worth mentioning the recently added features (by updating), which is the Night Shift. It lies in the fact that we can turn warmer color display, to this – for example at night – not tired eyes. It is possible to set a schedule, and to adjust the intensity of “yellowing” of the image.