Claimed iPad mini 5 case hints at Apple Pencil 2 support, new cameras, headphone jack more

A third-party semi-transparent example that appears to bring been designed for Apple’s unreleased fifth-generation iPad mini was posted before today past times leak aggregator SlashLeaks, showing a pill-shaped vertical cutout on the bring upwardly side instead of the regular round out cutout.

While the seat of the cutout is consistent alongside photographic tv set camera placement on existing models of Apple’s miniature tablet, the fact that it’s vertically oriented rather than horizontally, similar before, nearly sure as shooting points to a major upgrade inward the photographic tv set camera department.

The cutout is probable for an upgraded photographic tv set camera organisation along alongside LED flash (which mightiness hold upwardly integrated inward the photographic tv set camera hump itself; Apple started doing this alongside iPhone 7). There may fifty-fifty hold upwardly dual bring upwardly cameras given Apple’s augmented reality force too the fact that AR apps create goodness from increased tracking precision afforded past times having 2 cameras rather than one.

We too run into what appears to hold upwardly a bring upwardly mic hole relocated to the run past times optic of the device, addition a headphone jack hole at the run past times and, possibly, a cutout for a Smart Connector.

Apple could unloose a smaller Smart Keyboard for iPad mini 5, but its miniature footprint would give-up the ghost inward awkward to type on. Another possibility: this cutout is for Apple Pencil 2 support.

It’s unclear if the example is genuine or only an educated gauge of the dimensions of the adjacent iPad mini. For what it’s worth, rumor has it that the Cupertino tech giant mightiness unloose a tentatively named “iPad mini 5” too a novel 10-inch depression terms iPad in the outset one-half of 2019.

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