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what's up guys David here it is awesome stuff week here on YouTube today is Tuesday reviews day and we're gonna be reviewing probably the most under hyped and overlooked product that Apple announced last month in the iPad Mini for now this video is being sponsored by YouTube for awesome stuff week where they're rolling out a new feature called shoppable where you can shop for a product that you see in a video straight from the video including this one just by clicking on that little icon at the top right of your screen it's actually pretty cool so check it out if you have a chance but with that said let's go ahead and get right into it alright so first things first the iPad Mini 4 is not a blown-up version of the iPhone 6s in fact from a tech spec standpoint it has very little in common with the success as it doesn't have 3d touch it doesn't have the new 12 megapixel camera and it doesn't run on the a9 chip but on an iPad and especially an iPad Mini this isn't really that big of a deal at least for now while the iPad Mini 4 looks almost identical to the iPad Mini 3 the Mini 4 is actually a significant upgrade over its predecessor which is something you couldn't really say about the somewhat forgettable and now discontinued iPad Mini 3 really Apple should have called the iPad Mini 4 the iPad Mini air as it's both the lightest and the thinnest iPad available right now measuring image is 6.1 millimeters thick and weighing only 298 grams which on a tablet is incredibly light and makes using it for those long video or gaming sessions much more comfortable than any other tablet on the market right now the display has these same 2048 by 1536 resolution as its predecessors but this new screen is actually a lot better than the spec sheet would indicate it now has a fully laminated display which basically eliminates the gap between the screen and the cover glass giving you up to 44% more color saturation it also has an anti reflective coating which reduces glare by up to 56% making it a lot easier to see when using it under direct light under the hood the iPad Mini 4 is powered by the same Apple a8 chip that we saw in the iPhone 6 but it is now coupled with not one but two gigabytes of RAM which allows you to take full advantage of new multitasking abilities like split view where you can run two apps on the screen at the same time and picture-in-picture which lets you shrink a video down to the corner of the screen while you work on something else I've been using the device for a couple of weeks now doing a lot of multitasking and gaming in between and so far I haven't really noticed any hiccups or slowdowns with the a eight so performance is definitely not something you'll have to worry about and luckily neither is battery life as the iPad Mini 4 is ready to last for up to 10 hours of web surfing and video and in my experience it actually seems to last even longer than that with me being able to go pretty much three or four days without needing a charge now for those of you who are into taking pictures with the tablet you'll be happy to know that Apple upgraded the 5 megapixel camera up to an 8 megapixel shooter that can also do 120 FPS slow motion video and while I can't say that I spent a whole lot of time using the camera mainly because I didn't want to be shunned from society the few photos I did take for the purpose of this review look pretty good actually especially when in well-lit conditions unfortunately the 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera wasn't bumped up to 5 megapixels like on the new iPhones which is too bad since video calling on an iPad offers a much better experience than video calling on an iPhone thanks to the larger screen so I would have much rather seen Apple upgrade the front-facing camera instead of the rear camera but thankfully despite its relatively low megapixel count the front camera is still good enough to get the job done the bottom facing stereo speakers on the iPad offers surprisingly good sound considering these size limitations however I do wish Apple would have adopted either front-facing speakers like we've seen on several other tablets or a four speakers setup like on the new iPad pro as I did manage to accidentally cover up the speaker's quite a bit while I was watching video and gaming which kind of took away from the otherwise immersive experience and up I guess the only other real complaint I have about the new iPad Mini is the lack of the physical mute / rotation switch that the iPad Mini 3 and almost every other iPad before it had which was just a way more convenient way of locking rotation compared to having to go through control center the iPad Mini 4 replaces the iPad Mini 3 from the mini lineup and comes in at the same price points of 399 for the 16 gigabyte model 499 for the 60 for gigabyte model and $5.99 for the 128 gigabyte model if you want a Wi-Fi and cellular model like I have here it'll set you back an additional 130 bucks at each storage tier now which model you get completely depends on how you plan to use it as you'll probably are hopefully not take as many pictures as you do on your phone but at the same time you'll probably want to consume a lot more media so personally I went with 64 gigabytes as I do like gaming on that bigger screen but if you don't plan on gaming and taking pictures and you plan on using it mostly for streaming things like Netflix or watching YouTube then you just might be able to get by with 16 gigabytes but if you can afford it I would recommend biting the bullet and just going with 64 gigabytes so you don't regret it later so I guess the main question is is the iPad Mini 4 worth the upgrade and again it depends if you already have the iPad Mini 3 then I would say probably not but otherwise I think the better display the addition of the touch ID fingerprint scanner the thinner and lighter design and probably most importantly the ability to do split-screen multitasking which you can only do on the newer iPads by the way makes the iPad Mini 4 the best small tablet that money can currently buy alright guys that is it for me in this video like I mentioned earlier it is awesome stuff week here on YouTube so to see more awesome tech videos check out the link down below in the description thank you guys for watching in I'll see you in the very next episode