hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the fifth generation iPad Mini
the original iPad Mini came out on November 2nd 2012 so it's been a long
time and it hasn't changed too much but we'll take a look at this one in just a
moment and compare it with the old one now this comes in at 399 with 64
gigabytes of storage or 256 gigabytes of storage for 549 if you add 129 dollars
you can get cellular or LTE for a total of 679 for the top-of-the-line model
this one is the 64 gigabyte model now let's go ahead and open it up let's take
a look on the back and one thing you'll notice is the actual box doesn't really
say anything as far as fifth generation there's not a real way to distinguish
this if you're not familiar with the iPad Mini line so let's go ahead and
open this up take the wrapper off here and I was able to find this at a local
Best Buy and they had them before the Apple store so let's go ahead and open
this up there's the box here is the iPad Mini now I'll be honest I haven't used
the iPad Mini in a very long time I only have the first generation iPad Mini I
wasn't a huge fan of it because I liked the larger size but it served its
purpose so in the box we've got a lightning cable just lightning to USB a
and then here we have some documentation let's see if there's anything exciting
in here we've got our Apple stickers in there as well some smaller Apple
stickers or mini Apple stickers it says iPad Mini and just tells a
little bit about it and that's really it let's put this away now inside of this
we've got the iPad charger no longer with the smaller charger and this is the
12 watt charger so we can see that there so that's nice we've got the 12 watt
charger and the iPad Mini let's go ahead and take the wrapper off and this is in
space grey if you haven't noticed already
so let's set this aside and we'll take a closer look so this is the iPad Mini
doesn't look too unfamiliar to me you've got your normal touch ID sensor here
your display and this display is a 7.9 inch Retina display it's 2048 by 1536
with 326 pixels per inch now this is a fully laminated display so it's actually
glued to the display underneath we'll take a closer look at that once I turn
it on it has a p3 wide color gamut true town and oleophobic coating
anti-reflective coating and it can go up to 500 nits of brightness so let's go
ahead and turn it on and we'll boot it up and you'll see around the outside
edge we have our stereo speakers on the bottom lightning cable or lightning port
rather on this side the volume buttons on the top power sleep-wake a little
microphone a headphone jack nothing on this side and that's pretty much it a
little microphone in the back your camera and this camera is an 8 megapixel
camera with an F 2.4 lens it's got autofocus it only does 1080p video and
that's not great but on the front we do have a 7 megapixel camera with enough
2.2 that also does 1080p now the iPad has booted up let's go ahead and enable
zoom press home to open you can set this up and just to compare really quickly
let me power that off and bring over the old iPad this is the original first gen
iPad and this is in a black color so we'll take the cover off here and this
one can't even be updated to iOS 12 you'll see if I slide to unlock this is
you'll see if I slide up we've got the old control center this is an older
version iOS 9 and it's terribly slow so even going to things like the App Store
are pretty unbearable but if we put them side-by-side the only thing you can
really notice from the front here is it's a laminated display and it has
touch ID on the back they're pretty much the same
and nothing's changed too much when it comes to that now one thing I wanted to
try is this is a first generation Smart Cover it looks like the magnets don't
really line up perfectly so there's definitely a difference here where the
magnets line up so if you had an old Smart Cover you may need to buy a new
one the magnets not correct there it kind of
works but not really like it should now while many people were really excited
about the new iPad Mini they were hoping for
the new design like we have with this new twelve point nine inch design where
it's a little more squared off and I think looks a little bit better but the
nice thing is all of your accessories should work with this except for maybe
that Smart Cover like I showed so let's go ahead and agree to these will it
continue we'll hit enable set Apple pay up later
I'm gonna use my keychain we'll set that up later you'll see this is zipping
right through no problem continue continue continue is just telling us how
to use it and now we're in so this looks pretty good and in fact it's really fast
and you can see where I said this is a laminated display right here you can
actually see that there's no gap there there's no air gap at all so let me
bring in the old iPad and you can actually see there's a little bit of an
air gap going on there and the screen doesn't feel like it's right on top so
you'll see the sizes are basically the same as far as thickness goes I'd say
this new iPad Mini is a little bit thinner actually and set this one aside
and let's go ahead and turn this up a little bit and I think it looks pretty
good so far and the new thing about this is it supports the Apple pencil now the
weird thing about that is it doesn't support the newest generation pencil it
supports the old generation pencil so that's this one it's got the awkward way
of charging it but if we put this in here it should pair well give it a
moment there we go it popped up finally hip hair and that's usually it
we can just take this off here and see auto-rotate works quite well let's trim
it off for now but you'll see it works with the pencil now like I said it does
not work with the second-generation pencil so this one
there's no way to pair it or anything like that so you'll want the
first-generation pencil and you can use this will work just fine and I know a
lot of people are going to be very happy with this let's see what version of iOS
it comes with it does have that new news app so it probably has the latest
version you can see it is installed with the latest iOS update so that part's
nice it was pre-installed with 12.2 I didn't have to update it or anything and
then we have Apple pencil support of course so that part's really nice now
the other thing with this it should last 10 hours on battery just like all the
other iPads do and you've got pretty much everything you're accustomed to if
you have an iPad Mini already now if you do get the gigabit LTE version you will
have GPS but otherwise you've got all the same sensors basically your compass
your eye beacon moka micro location accelerometer three-axis gyro and
barometer and it also has Wi-Fi a BGN and AC so it's all up to date as far as
that goes the strange thing is is this is a little bit more expensive than the
regular iPad but it looks like it has a little bit nicer screen the viewing
angle is pretty good I don't see any issues there let's see the brightness
it's nice and bright although not as bright as some of the most recent
displays from Apple but it looks pretty good
and you've got that a12 processor and ovary try there we go it's got the a12
processor in it so it should be super fast so the same processor that's in all
the modern Apple devices and you shouldn't have any slowdowns in fact it
comes with iMovie you could use that to edit 4k video it should work just fine
on this device we should also be able to do split screen which would be
interesting let's see what we can do here if we bring this up maybe bring up
this here so we have Safari on the right let's go to Apple and you get the idea
we can do that split screen here it's kind of weird looking like that but you
can do it if you we'll turn off rotate here and see what
we've got we'll go back home and now it looks a little bit better that way so we
can fully use this like a larger iPad and if you like to hold on to it with
these bezels it's pretty nice it feels pretty rigid it does have a little bit
of flex to it but I mean I'm barely pushing so if you really were to twist
this hard by accident or something you could bend it I suppose but it feels
pretty rigid so that's it for the iPad Mini there's not a whole lot more to say
about it other than it's a great little iPad if you want the mini it may be a
little bit expensive especially if you get the larger storage option you've
just got those two 64 gigabytes and 256 but let me know if you'd like to see a
full review of this or if there's anything else you'd like to know
specifically about this I'll try and answer that a little bit later let me
know in the comments below if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper that
I have on the original iPad here I'll leave that in the description below as
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