Gadgetory

hi I'm Scott Stein and this year is the iPad Mini with Retina display you know it was a year ago that we looked at the iPad Mini and we said well here's a small really light iPad what's it missing Retina well in 2013 you get the retina and it's finally available on sale now but there are two things first of all it's expensive 399 is the starting price so it's more expensive than last year's iPad Mini but also it's got a lot more under the hood it's got an a7 processor it's got a Retina display that's the same resolution as the iPad air that was just released and it's got all the other bells and whistles as the larger iPad so really it's a shrunken down larger iPad that you're saving 100 bucks on does it's not a bad deal if you're looking for a top-of-the-line tablet but it's expensive if you're looking for a really small tablet if you hold it in your hands it doesn't feel any different than last year's Mini it's a little bit heavier 0.73 pounds and the display again the resolution is 2048 by 1536 that is a very high resolution 326 pixels per inch so it's a higher ppi then the iPad air and that bests just about everything else that's out there compared to get something like the more affordable tablet market however you can see there are a lot of tablets with super high resolution displays Kindle has got high resolution fired tablets now you've got the Nexus 7 which has a 1080p display in a 7-inch tablet held side-by-side this still has a higher pixel resolution but you can see that there's a lot of stuff out there competing well this has got under the hood though that a7 processor and an m7 processor for tracking and it's also got better LTE and Wi-Fi in here for faster throughput and better range and you can only if you do opt up for the LTE version know that this will work across the world and across carriers you can sim slots content so you don't have to pick one particular carrier to stick with which is nice so all of that adds up to a lot of things that the competition doesn't have no there's no touch ID what do you use this for well definitely for better reading for videos for games and the good news about the mini is that for all the apps that we've thrown at it that I've thrown at it you can see that they all work really well in this size they don't feel cramped and so that's why having that bump up compared to last year is helpful I mean if you had the iPad Mini that at an a5 processor this goes up to the a7 so it's kind of like a two-year leap in terms of performance upgrade compared to your year over year and iPads does that mean you should upgrade well you know some people may still prefer the iPad Mini because that's $100 less expensive and the screen for a lot of people might look perfectly fine if you pay for the LTE you're paying an extra hundred thirty dollars more so it starts at 529 then you start bumping up to something like 128 gigabytes which is the top-end configuration and you're looking at something that's pushing $800 now I'm not generally one for taking pictures on my iPad but the front-facing FaceTime HD camera in the new iPad Mini has better light sensitivity and makes you look generally snazzier the only other thing that's different in the box is that there's now a 10 watt charger as opposed to the 5 so the brick is a little bit larger and that's it if you wanted to get retina and an iPad Mini this is the time you do have to spend a little more money the funny thing is though the iPad air is pretty close in weight 0.732 one pound and has the same specs and a larger screen which some people may like for watching movies do you pay $100 or more for that do you save a hundred and get this I'm Scott Stein and that is a look at the new iPad Mini with Retina display available once again in black or space gray we should call it or white silver