Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and the ipad mini has finally been updated for 2021
apple has redesigned it it's more squared off similar to the iphone and the ipad
and it has some new colors available so this is the new starlight color but it also comes in
space gray pink and purple there's two different storage options 64 gigabytes and 256 gigabytes
and it starts at 499 and then goes to 649 for the larger storage option if you want to add cellular
data to that add an additional 130 similar to what they do with all the other ipads now
let's go ahead and unbox this and take a look at it so here is the new ipad mini and i also
have the smartfolio case to go along with it so these are fairly expensive as well but they're 59
and it's similar to what we've had before but it wraps around the back as well we'll
take a closer look at that after we unbox the ipad mini so here's the ipad mini now i
picked it up in 64 gigabytes with just the wi-fi option since we don't really use a
whole lot of storage on the smaller ipads so we'll pull this off here to unwrap it
there we go and let's open the box up
there we go and just like the new ipad this year the 9th generation ipad it's wrapped in
paper instead of plastic which is really nice better for recyclability
so we'll put this aside for just a moment and then inside we have our typical paperwork so let's
see what we've got here it says ipad mini sort of a quick start guide it looks like
and then we've also got our safety and handling and warranty as well as apple stickers they don't
match the ipad they're just the typical white apple stickers that we normally see now as far as
included accessories we have a usbc to usbc cable for charging and we also have a wall adapter so
this is apple's 20 watt wall adapter and if you need an additional adapter or just a smaller one
to carry around that's where my channel partner comes in anchor anker provides about 45 of the
size of the current charger and provides up to 20 watts of power so about 50 charge in 25 minutes on
an iphone i'll talk more about them a little bit later on but let's go ahead and put this away here
and we'll take a closer look at the ipad so we'll put these away and let's see what the ipad is all
about this is my first time actually seeing an ipad mini so let's go ahead and open it up
and this color
this color starlight is sort of a silver but it has a hint of gold or an off-white color to
it it looks pretty good in different light you can see around the edge it looks a little bit
different so it's not exactly silver now as far as the overall design on the top you can see we
have our power sleep wake button and this is also a touch id button so it reads your fingerprint and
unlocks securely we also have speakers and we should have dual speakers one on each side if
you're in landscape so we'll take a closer look at that with some magnet paper in a moment and we
also have our volume buttons on the top which is a little bit different than what we normally see
so we don't have them on the side here on the bottom we have more speakers and we also have
a usbc port here so we can use that with external storage or just for connections and then on the
other side we have a spot for our apple pencil this supports the second generation apple pencil
and we'll try that a little bit later now on the back you can also see that we have a camera it's
a 12 megapixel camera it has continuous autofocus it also has true tone flash and it can record up
to 4k at 60 frames per second but it does not have hdr now this does support 5g as well so it
supports 5g and also 802.11 ax and wi-fi 6 as well as bluetooth 5.0 so all of that's built in and of
course the brand new a15 bionic cpu six core gpu five core cpu with a 16 core neural engine
as far as the ram i'm not sure what's inside we'll have to take a look at that in a little bit
now let's take a look at the magnets in the back so we can get a better idea of what's inside
so it looks like we have some magnets here on the back for maybe connecting the smart cover
or the smart folio case this looks like we've got a speaker here and then around this side
again some more magnets and then again another speaker so we just have two speakers and maybe
some resonance chambers or microphones as well there's also a microphone here so let's go ahead
and turn it on we'll get it set up and we'll talk more about the display and the forward-facing
camera as well so let's turn it on and we'll also compare it size-wise to the other devices
so we'll let it boot up here and this is actually fairly light it's 293 grams or 0.65 pounds
or if you have the cellular model it's 0.66 pounds or 297 grams so it's pretty light overall as you
can see the display is lit up we do have some fairly thick bezels but i actually like that
for holding on to them generally if you're holding on to something this small your thumbs are going
to protrude into the display now compared to say the other models here let me just show you that
this is very similar to what we have with an ipad air so let me just line these up here so you can
get a size idea so i'll line these up this is the ipad mini and air now you can see i have
all the new ipads lined up or this year's ipads we have the ipad mini then the 9th generation
ipad the ipad air and the ipad pro 12.9 and the ipad pro 11 inch is the same size as the air so
this gives you a general idea of the size overall and what might work best for you when it comes to
what you want to carry around with you every day so it's definitely
a very small ipad now before i set this up here is the previous generation ipad mini this is
one of the first ipad minis and as you can see it's in a black color it's almost slate in color
and it's just very different so as far as the overall size goes this gives you a general idea of
the size if you're coming from an old ipad mini as far as the size we do have a camera bump this time
around and then on the side here you can see the difference and the height is a little bit shorter
and the width is about the same but you get those stereo speakers
and you don't have a headphone jack but you do have that camera bump that sticks out now let
me set that aside and we'll get this set up so we'll swipe up here and we'll set it up so now
i'll just bring in another ipad so we can set this up i'll hit hit continue and then what we'll do is
scan this here using the ipad it recognizes it and helps me set up the ipad so i'll get this
set up i'll put in my passcode and now it wants me to set up touch id and so we'll hit continue
and touch id is on the top so we'll just place my finger here and get this set up and touch id
works really well on the button here and it's similar to what we have on the ipad air that i've
used for quite some time so again it says capture all of your fingerprint so we'll hit continue
and then we'll want to fill this in by moving our finger around a little bit and it typically works
really well we'll hit continue you can add another fingerprint so if you want to use it in landscape
mode you can do that so i'll do that really quick so i have my fingerprint added we'll hit continue
and now it's asking if i want to transfer data i don't at this point just want to set it up as new
so we can use it so i'll put in my apple id since this ipad didn't have that installed i'll put in
my apple id so i can use this now as far as the display since we're waiting for this to be set up
the display is an 8.3 inch measured diagonally lcd display or liquid retina display it's 2266
by 1488 pixels with a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch it's a laminated display so
there's no air gap here and there's also 500 nits of brightness and an anti-reflective coating i'll
show you that in a moment as well as p3 wide color and true tone so we'll go ahead and hit
continue it says make this your new ipad it'll just bring over my settings now it's asking me
to set up serial just hit continue and if we want to improve siri dictation and then welcome to ipad
now as far as the display and how reflective it is it's pretty good as far as reflectivity
now if i bring in the ninth generation ipad you'll see that it's much more reflective and if i turn
the brightness all the way down here or just turn the displays off you can see how reflective it is
so there's actually a light right here that you can see sort of shining and you don't see
it as much on the ipad mini at all but you can definitely see it here if i pick this up this way
you can see i'm reflecting right in the display here if i pick it up over here bring it over you
can barely see me in the ipad mini display but you can see me pretty clearly on the ipad the 9th
generation ipad so that just gives you a general idea of what it looks like as far as how well it
handles reflections now let's go ahead and see what version of ios 15 is on it and if there's
any new wallpapers we'll go to settings then we'll go to about and you'll see the pre-installed ios
version is ios 15 but build number 19a 342. so if we go back here and go to software update
there will be an update it's a 350 megabyte update that we'll need for some bug fixes and more so
it's a security update and it fixes some issues so i'll update this a little bit later but let's go
to our wallpaper we'll choose a new wallpaper and let's see what we have for stills and so we have
the new mini wallpapers so based on the color you got this one is for starlight so we can set this
we'll hit not now we'll set it for the wallpaper and you'll see this is the new starlight wallpaper
so we have those for different options and they're just different for each color that you choose so
depending on which ipad you bought you can pick whatever one you want and they have a day and
night mode as well so on our home screen this is what it looks like in light mode then we'll switch
to dark and this is what the wallpaper looks like in dark mode so it looks really nice in dark mode
and the blacks here on the display are pretty black as well they do stick out a little bit
but they are pretty dark so that looks really nice now as far as the overall features of this ipad i
wanted to check out the ram just to see what it has and so i've installed geekbench 5 let's see
how much ram this ipad has so we'll wait for it to load here and you can see it has about 4 gigabytes
so 3.78 gigabytes of ram and that's pretty good especially for an ipad mini typically the iphones
or the pro models of the iphone have six gigabytes so this has the same amount of ram as the new
iphone 13 and it has that new processor in it as well now the front facing camera is really nice
because it has a 12 megapixel camera it's ultra wide it can record 1080p 30 video but it also has
center stage apple's new feature where it follows you around maybe when you're on a phone call or in
facetime it's something i really like you can turn it off if you want to but if we go to facetime
let's take a look at it now i'm in a facetime call with myself and as i move around out of this out
of the display it follows me around so you can see it keeps me in frame no matter where i am and then
of course i have portrait mode in the background so it can do portrait mode on this processor
and let's go home so it has all of those features let me hang up the facetime call
now the ipad mini has all new speakers so i thought we'd take a listen to those using
a comparison that i created last year with all the current iphones that were for sale let's go
ahead and hit play i'll move the microphone so you can hear this a little bit better
so i turned the speakers all the way up and you saw i hit about 77 decibels measuring it with
the apple watch so it's nice and loud it's not as loud as an iphone where i got over 80
but it's pretty loud overall so it has a nice clear stereo sound even at the highest volume
and it seems to work really well now internally this has a 19.3 watt hour battery according to
apple it's good for about 10 hours it's a lithium polymer battery and the cellular version if you're
using just cellular data and using safari will get you about nine hours of battery
now if you need to recharge your ipad that's where our channel partner anker comes into play
the new anker nano pro can charge just as fast as the included charger but at 45 percent of the size
like i showed you before it has power iq 3.0 that works flawlessly with your new iphone or ipad and
it has anker's patented active shield to monitor temperature and adjust current to make sure the
phone doesn't get too hot or your ipad doesn't get too hot it also comes in four different colors
glacier blue cool lavender arctic white and black ice and i'll link them in the description below
so you can check out the anchor nano pro now ipad mini supports apple pencil too and it just sticks
to the side and we'll stick it to the side and you can see the ipad mini is almost as long as
the apple pencil so you just stick it to the side of the device it charges it and it pairs it so
we'll hit continue and then it's just showing what you can do with it with scribble and more
and we'll hit continue and hit done now if we take the pencil off swipe in from
the bottom we have quick notes where we can just capture whatever we want say hello this
is ipad this is terrible but you get the idea that this will work and i should redo that a
little bit later but you get the idea that you can use the pencil with it and the pencil 2 is
my favorite just because when you're done with it you stick it to the side and it works really well
of course that does come at an extra cost and is not included now as far as accessories this is
the smart folio i showed you earlier and this is the dark cherry version so let's go ahead and open
this up here it didn't come sealed or anything so no plastic in the box really it's just all
cardboard or paper it looks like and this is the folio now this is silicone and it has some magnets
inside of it that will adhere it to the to the ipad so again you can see all of the different
magnets inside the case there's a bunch throughout on the back and then some on the cover to help
hold it up and even more so this allows you to fold this so that you can use it as a stand so
you fold it back like this use it like a stand like we've had before and it should work on this
ipad so let's go ahead and put the ipad mini on it there it sticks to it magnetically and then
of course you can just close this if you open it up it turns the ipad on close it it shuts it off
so you've got that and then of course you can fold it up like this and use it as a stand so if
you want to use it it just holds the ipad up like that so i think it looks really nice and let's go
ahead and unlock it there we go and if you want to use a smaller ipad this is probably the way to go
there doesn't get much better than this as far as the design i love the ipad air
and this is the same sort of design and they have generally pretty good speakers as well so it looks
pretty nice with that case and i think i like the dark cherry with starlight it looks really good
together now i'd love to hear what you think about the ipad mini since it's been fully redesigned i
know a lot of people were really looking forward to this now for me personally the ipad mini is
just way too small i'm more of a 12.9 inch ipad pro type of person i use that regularly when i'm
doing email and productivity basically anytime i'm not editing a video and i'm at home i'm using that
so that's my preferred size for an ipad but now we've got not only the mini we have the new 9th
generation ipad the ipad air 11 inch ipad pro and then the 12.9 inch let me know which size works
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