Yes this is a re-assurance thread. Do you think it's worth to buy an iPad mini for it's current thinness?
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iPad mini An iPad mini with retina display will definitely be thicker.
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Thicker display, MUCH thicker battery to get anywhere near 10 hours of battery life, heavier, bulkier.... hey! Its the iPad 4!
I am no big fan of thinner. Thin is good to a point and then you loose structural integrity.
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Granted I won't know how much thicker the battery will need to be to get 10 hours but just as a quick note, the iPad mini 7.2mm and the iPhone 5 is 7.6mm, which has retina. Not a significant amount there.
I did see an article that said the iPhone 5, under continuous use, got over 7 hours of use. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/how-does-iphone-5-battery-life-stack-1B6102050
If you need to hit the magic mark of 10 hours they can probably do that and stay at or under 8mm
To answer your question, no, I wouldn't buy it because I think a retina mini will be significantly thicker.
I did see an article that said the iPhone 5, under continuous use, got over 7 hours of use. http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/how-does-iphone-5-battery-life-stack-1B6102050
If you need to hit the magic mark of 10 hours they can probably do that and stay at or under 8mm
To answer your question, no, I wouldn't buy it because I think a retina mini will be significantly thicker.
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Hey OP, I just love when people make assumptions with no facts or foundation. The success of the mini will drive Apple to continue to create thinner retina displays.
As a result, these devices will get thiner and lighter.
Interesting... I didn't think to look at the iPod Touch as a comparison. From the 4th to 5th generations, it went from 7.2 to 6.1 mm in thickness. So it got thinner, even though they added retina. It was over 2 years in between those 2 releases so other advances contributed to the size.
If it's going to be thicker, it won't be by much. The iPad 2 was thinner than the iPad 3 or 4 and I don't recall anyone complaining about that (from 8.8 to 9.4).
but the ipad has larger internal space, too
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a lot of people complained about the thicker 3, including me
You can't please all of the people, all of the time. To me, .6 mm in difference, for a first release of a retina screen that size, isn't a big deal. Sure it's thicker but to gain the advantage of retina, on the iPad 3, it is going to come at a price. Again, my $.02, less than a 10% increase isn't a big deal. Maybe it is for others.
We don't know with 100% certainty if the iPad mini 2 will have retina (personally I would bet that it will), but with the advances in technology and when we fast forward 6 - 12 months from now, Apple will have been making retina devices for 2 1/2 to 3 years and hopefully will have figured out a way to make them thinner.
They might put a retina display on the iPad mini 2 but it wont be the iPad 3 resolution. If they did it would have a higher PPI than the retina iPhone and iPad. I think they would use something like 1.5 times the resolution if the iPad 2. The only problem would be that the Apps would be have to be downscaled to the new resolution but they I don't think they would have to be redesigned. I'm not an app developer so I don't know that for sure. Anyway thats my theory for the iPad mini 2.
no it wouldn't
it would have exactly 326 PPI which is exactly what the iPhone 5 has
it would also have the exact number of pixels as the ipad 3 & 4
the ipad mini has the same 163 PPI as the 3GS
The retina iPad has a resolution of 2048 x 1536. If the iPad mini had that same resolution it would have a much higher PPI than the iPad or the iPhone. It can't have the same number of pixels as the retina iPad without having a higher PPI because the screen is 2 inches smaller.
Yes the iPhone and iPod touch have retina, but that's 1136 x 640. The Mini would need a resolution of 2048 x 1536. Which would be powered by a bigger, power hungry A5X or A6X chip. Which would require a bigger battery. And then you have the iPad 4.
I think the problem could be solved if an A6 could power the iPad's retina graphics but it can't
Not yet, anyway
I think the problem could be solved if an A6 could power the iPad's retina graphics but it can't
Not yet, anyway
I would happily accept a thicker/heavier iPad Mini for the addition of retina display.
OMG. This is funny. Go here and tell me that you're not the one that needs the math lesson - http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html
Even if you don't believe that, the iPad 2 and iPad mini have the same resolution, right? The iPad mini has a higher ppi because it's a smaller screen.
I'm saying the ipad mini has the same PPI as the iPhone 3GS and a retina version will have the same PPI as the iPhone 5
there's no new technology here
You're the one that said a retina iPad mini would have more PPI than the iPhone 5
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326 PPI is exactly the same PPI as the iPhone 5
Math people!
I'm not even that smart
mjpearce is right. To go retina and keep the aspect ratio the same, the PPI will increase unless Apple goes with a 3rd resolution. To go along with with the iPhone 5 has, 1 of 2 things needs to happen. Either double the resolution from the iphone 5 to a retina mini, going to 2272 x 1280, which gives you a PPI of 330 or change the aspect ratio of the iPad mini. iPhone 5 = 16:9 and iPad mini, iPad 2, 3 & 4 = 4:3.
I'm saying the ipad mini has the same PPI as the iPhone 3GS and a retina version will have the same PPI as the iPhone 5
there's no new technology here
You're the one that said a retina iPad mini would have more PPI than the iPhone 5
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326 PPI is exactly the same PPI as the iPhone 5
Math people!
I'm not even that smart
I wont argue your last point
Do you understand PPI is pixels per inch? Resolution is not the same as PPI. When the inches change so does the PPI. There are some websites that can explain it better because I really don't have time to break it down. I would recommend you do some research before discussing topics you clearly don't understand.
nope, if you double the ipad mini's resolution you end up with 326 PPI, the same as the iPhone 5's PPI
MATH PEOPLE!!!!
The mini has 163 PPI. Multiply by 2. you get 326.