iPad mini 5 is here: Apple Pencil support, A12 Bionic chip, starts at $399

Aside from launching an all-new iPad Air model in an ultra-thin 10.5-inch design, Apple this forenoon also quietly refreshed its pop iPad mini via a press release.

The fifth-generation iPad mini’s replaced iPad mini 4, which is no longer on sale, at the same starting cost of $399. It brings Apple Pencil back upwardly to that shape constituent for the outset time.

With Apple Pencil support, the novel iPad mini is the perfect take-anywhere notepad for sketching too jotting downward thoughts on the go.

Apple Pencil opens upwardly novel inventiveness too productivity possibilities for iPad mini too iPad Air users, from drawing too writing downward thoughts to mark upwardly documents too retouching photos.

The must-have tool amid students, professionals too creatives delivers a remarkably fluid too natural drawing sense too provides pixel-perfect accuracy too depression latency for activities inside pop apps including Procreate, Notability, Pixelmator Photo (coming soon) too Microsoft Office.

At merely 0.66 pound (300.5 grams) too 6.1 mm thin, the novel iPad mini is definitely slow to deport around inward ane manus or guide keep out of a bag or pocketbook whenever inspiration strikes.

Despite its miniature shape factor, the novel iPad mini packs inward Apple’s latest A12 Bionic processor alongside the second-generation Neural Engine which is 10 times faster than earlier inward terms of hardware acceleration of motorcar learning too artificial intelligence tasks.

According to Apple, the chip delivers 3 times the functioning too nine times faster graphics over iPad mini 4, which was powered yesteryear the straight off outdated Apple A8 chip.

The 9.7-inch LED-backlit display rocks the same 2,048×1,536 pixel resolution equally the previous iPad minis, but is straight off 25 percentage brighter too features both True Tone too broad coloring support. It’s rated at 500 nits of brightness too 1.8 percentage reflectivity.

It does non purpose OLED technology nor is it rated for HDR video.

This is basically the same display equally the ane transportation inward the novel iPad Air.

With True Tone, the display continually adjusts brightness too contrast to fit electrical flow lighting conditions. Wide coloring back upwardly (the DCI-P3 display profile) brings greener greens too redder reds when enjoying your iPhone photos too other compatible content.

Phils Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing:

iPad continues to furnish magical novel experiences for a growing hit of uses where it is the absolute best device, from playing games inward augmented reality to note-taking too drawing alongside Apple Pencil, from streaming hard disk movies too editing 4K films to learning to railroad train apps alongside Swift Playgrounds.

Today the iPad trouble solid unit of measurement takes ii big leaps frontward alongside an all-new 10.5-inch iPad Air that brings high-end size, features too functioning at a breakthrough price, too a major upgrade to the 7.9-inch iPad mini, which also brings Apple Pencil, Retina display too the A12 Bionic chip to the many customers that dear its compact size.

Due to its pixel count too minor shape factor, the novel iPad mini has the highest pixel density of whatever iPad at 326 pixels per inch. The cameras guide keep been upgraded, too. The front-facing photographic television receiver camera has gone from the meager 1.2-megapixel shooter alongside 720p video recording to a seven-megapixel sensor alongside 1080p video recording at xxx frames per second.

The dorsum photographic television receiver camera has been upgraded from the previous model’s eight-megapixel sensor. The novel ane nevertheless takes 8 megapixel images, but is straight off faster too performs amend inward low-light conditions. It supports 1080p video recording at xxx frames per second, video ikon stabilization, slo-mo video capture at 120 frames per bit too time-lapse alongside stabilization.

Both cameras characteristic Auto HDR too guide keep broad coloring images too Live Photos. In fact, both the novel 10.5-inch iPad Air too iPad mini five are straight off rocking the same forepart too raise cameras (that lack LED flash too optical ikon stabilization).

The 19.1-watt-hour battery is rated at upwardly to 10 hours of surfing the spider web on Wi‑Fi, watching video or listening to music or upwardly to nine hours of Internet fourth dimension when using cellular information network.

Other perks include Bluetooth 5, the Home push clit alongside Touch ID, the 3.5mm headphone jack, built-in stereo speakers, the Lighting port, dual microphones too the same Wi-Fi performance, eSim technology too Gigabit‑class LTE connectivity equally the latest iPad Pro series.

Nothing beats the iPad mini shape factor: at less than a pound too merely 6.1 mm thin, the tablet is slow to deport around inward ane manus or guide keep out of a bag or pocketbook whenever inspiration strikes.

iPad mini five is available starting today inward Silver, Space Gray too Gold. The 64/256GB versions volition ready yous dorsum $399/$529, or an extra $130 if yous demand cellular connectivity.

The novel iPad mini five models volition last available inward stores side yesteryear side week.

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