{"id":37387,"date":"2014-10-20T18:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37387"},"modified":"2014-10-22T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T01:07:45","slug":"heres-why-you-shouldnt-buy-the-ipad-mini-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/10\/heres-why-you-shouldnt-buy-the-ipad-mini-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s why you shouldn’t buy the iPad Mini 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week Apple announced their latest tablets: the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3. Both tablets are on pre-order now for \u00a380 more than their predecessors, but only one is worth buying. Here’s why.<\/p>\n

The Air 2 is something of a technical triumph for Apple, incorporating a faster processor, Touch ID sensor and improved camera in a dramatically thinner frame. Apple spent the bulk of their presentation over the Air 2, and it makes sense – the tablet is a significant advancement over the original Air, and is now probably the most desirable tablet in the world.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the iPad Mini 3 was touched upon with uncharacteristic haste. That’s because there simply aren’t any real substantive changes between the Mini 3 and the Mini 2. In fact, the list of useful changes is precisely two items long: the tablet now includes the Touch ID fingerprint sensor and is available in gold. That’s it – no thinner chassis, no upgraded processor, and no improved camera.<\/p>\n

If you had a choice between the two tablets at the same price, then you’d pick the Mini 3 – why not? But instead, Apple are selling this tablet for an \u00a380 premium, which makes no sense at all.<\/p>\n

So my advice to you is this: if you want a small Apple tablet, pick up the Mini 2 while you still can, and avoid the Mini 3 unless you simply must own a tablet rendered in champagne gold. At \u00a3239 the Mini 2 is simply the far better deal.<\/p>\n

n.b<\/em>. If you have an iPhone 6 Plus, you may want to steer clear of the Mini line altogether. The increased screen size of the newer iPhone models means you’ll get much less of a boost in screen real estate when moving from an iPhone to an iPad Mini than owners of previous\u00a0<\/em>iPhones<\/em>\u00a0did. Already many 6 Plus owners are leaving their iPad Minis at home because they already feel\u00a0 they have a big enough screen in their pocket.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Last week Apple announced their latest tablets: the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3. Both tablets are on pre-order now for \u00a380 more than their predecessors, but only one is worth buying. Here’s why. The Air 2 is something of a technical triumph for Apple, incorporating a faster processor, Touch ID sensor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[762,3306],"tags":[194,7622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37394,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37387\/revisions\/37394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}