Apple could release new iPad mini and 10-inch iPad models in the first half of 2019

Apple could loose a fifth-generation iPad mini with a refreshed $329 entry-level iPad with a bigger ten-inch display at to a greater extent than or less betoken during the showtime one-half of 2019, rumor has it.

Sources who spoke with the China Times paper alleged that all-new iPad mini five models are coming inwards the showtime one-half of 2019 with a refreshed sixth-generation iPad that’s expected to characteristic a slightly larger 10-inch panel inside a narrower frame. The study didn’t specify if the upcoming 10-incher mightiness adopt edge-to-edge blueprint akin to 2018 iPad Pros.

For what it’s worth, reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo did predict inwards Oct 2018 that the side yesteryear side iPad mini would come upward outfitted with an upgraded Apple processor as well as a lower-cost display panel.

Mass production is expected to laid out yesteryear the terminate of this month.

Apple could agree a media final result to denote these novel tablets which, if history is an indication, mightiness last held to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension inwards the jump 2019. iPad mini iv was final updated inwards September 2015, receiving a slightly taller as well as wider trunk along with a much thinner design.

The tablet is powered yesteryear Apple’s dual-core A8 processor with 2GB of RAM.

Apple claims that the A8 fleck is 1.3x faster at CPU tasks as well as 1.6x faster at graphics tasks over the A7 fleck institute inwards the previous iPad mini models. Other features include a fully laminated Retina display, Touch ID, Apple Pay inwards apps (but non inwards stores because there’s no NFC antenna), an viii megapixel bring upward photographic television set camera with a ƒ/2.4 aperture, 802.11ac Wi-Fi as well as Bluetooth 4.2.

Originally available with the 16/32/64/128GB storage options, Apple inwards March 2017 killed off all storage SKUs, leaving exclusively the $399 128GB iPad mini iv on sale.

As for the $329 9.7-inch iPad, this is Apple’s close affordable tablet that supports the first-generation Apple Pencil which the mini does not. Clearly, given its $399 entry-level price, at that topographic point is to a greater extent than or less wiggle room for Apple to update iPad mini with its latest technologies field bringing the toll downward because it doesn’t actually brand feel for a 7.9-inch tablet to cost to a greater extent than than a bigger 9.7-inch device that also happens to pack inwards to a greater extent than modern hardware.

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