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Samsung dominating the tablet market now American
technological giant Apple is eyeing to debut is flagship mini tablet
Apple iPad Mini 3. Samsung is dominating the tablet market since the
beginning of the year but not managing to capture the mini tablet market
due to brilliance of Apple.
Apple shock the world by introducing high end mini tablet with Retina
display, namely iPad Mini with Retina display. Now company is eyeing
aiming to launch iPad Mini with Retina display’s successor iPad Mini 3.
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More positively he predicts that the iPad mini 3 will get upgraded to an
A8 chip and come with Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint scanner.
You end up entering passwords just as much on an iPad as you do on an
iPhone, so it’s surprising that the newest iPads didn’t get the same
Touch ID fingerprint sensor as the iPhone 5S got.
We’d really like to see these included in the iPad mini 3, not least
because they would allow multiuser interaction – just touch to switch to
your personal iPad account. Of course Apple would also have to build
multi user support into iOS first, and it’s arguable they’d rather sell
you two iPads instead but the few rumors that have emerged so far
suggest Touch ID may in fact be in the works.
16GB of storage in the cheapest iPad used to sound like a lot but now
it’s really starting to look a bit stingy, with apps like GarageBand and
iMovie going free, some iOS games starting to take up over a gigabyte of
space and Retina screens making high resolution movies worth loading
onto your iPad.
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The steep price jumps for the higher capacity models look cynical,
especially when flash memory itself is not expensive and Apple offers no
way to add storage via card slots. Starting the new models at 32GB would
be more reasonable.
The Apple likely to hold an event on October 21, in which company is
expected to launch the new iPad Air 2 along with iPad Mini 3 and more.
Adding a cellular option to an iPad mini currently adds £100/$130/AU$150
to the price, and of course you have to pay for data on top of that.
Given that the only difference between the innards of a Wi-Fi only and a
cellular iPad is the addition of some mass-produced radio circuitry, it
would be nice to bring the additional cost premium down a bit so that
more people would opt for the cellular option and be able to use their
iPads on the move. This is especially true of the supremely portable
mini.
A bit of a pipe dream perhaps, but wireless charging technology already
exists and is used by some phone and tablet manufacturers, such as in
the Google Nexus 7.
Haptic or pressure sensitive screens already exist, and make for more
accurate and flexible interaction with your device, especially for
games, music or art apps where you want your finger to do more than just
register a touch.
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Many competing tablets do support card slots for adding your own memory
cards and this can be a massively useful thing to be able to do. You can
even do it now with an add-on for iPads… sure, this is for
photographers, but we’d love to see the functionality extended out, and
it would stop Apple having to backtrack on having inbuilt expandable
storage.
The iPad-specific but it’s becoming a real issue. Apple gives every
Apple ID a free 5GB of iCloud storage which is great, but it’s no longer
enough.
The battery life of the iPad mini 2 is actually very good, but with
portable devices like these there’s no real upper limit on how good
people would ideally like it to be.
Since Apple seems for the most part to be able to make each new
generation of devices smaller or lighter while maintaining or even
improving battery life, we’d hope to see this continue with the next
generation of iPads.
There’s no doubt that iPads have been getting better in this respect, as
have iPhones. But from the user’s point of view the space around the
edges of the screen on a touchscreen device is largely wasted space.
You do need some non-touch sensitive space in order to be able to hold a
device without triggering it accidentally, but not much. So if Apple
were able to keep shrinking the size of the bezel around the edges of
the touch screen area, that would be pretty cool.
iPads have become very popular for taking pictures and video, especially
the more portable mini.
The iPad mini 2 has a 5MP camera with 1080p HD video support and that’s
good, but it lacks the slo-mo support of the iPhone 5S and also the
filters for image editing although you can obviously perform some edits
and use HDR mode, and use third-party photo or camera apps.
We’d be happier if it had NO camera and was a little bit thinner and
less expensive – plus it would stop people using their iPad as a device
to take pictures in lieu of an actual camera. If this is you, please
stop. Stop now.
Apple could conceivably add features via software updates, but a higher
resolution stills camera would be nice to see in future if it has to be
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