iPad mini 2019, the most intimate iPad

• Where does the familiarity of the iPad mini 5 come from?

In the days when I used the iPad mini, the biggest feeling was “easy.”

I don’t know if such a word is used to describe whether a digital product is suitable, but it is indeed my most real feeling.

“I was very excited when I got the iPad Pro, and I was a little grateful when I got the iPad mini.”

Even though I have used almost all of my current iPad products, no matter if it is the most advanced iPad Pro or the cost-effective iPad 2018, none of them can be like the iPad mini, giving people a “closeness.”

Until one day, I found that I could put my iPad mini into my outerwear pocket, and realized that for the iPad mini 5, the closeness is due to its size.

“Text reader” for most people

In the time when I have an iPad mini, if I want to browse the social network or read an article, I will definitely use the iPad mini, and in most cases this choice does not even have to think, but a subconscious choice. .

The big reason for this is that the size of the iPad mini can be held in one hand, and this is precisely the most important hardware cornerstone of any text consumer product. So this is also the reason why almost all of the Kindles of the “Face Noodle Brothers” duo are in this size range.

We almost always have some fragmented time when reading texts, including public transportation time, toilet time, and even bedtime. If we need to hold both hands during these time periods, there will be great inconvenience. The simplest example: When you squeeze a bus, you always need a hand to hold the handle.

Don’t underestimate this, because it will make you more willing to use the iPad mini at these fragmented times. Compared to other large-size iPads, the iPad mini can liberate one of our hands and is also suitable for long-term reading.

Compared with mobile phones, iPad mini will have a larger display area on the text display and a more comfortable typographic experience. This can increase your enjoyment in the reading process, making you more like reading a magazine than just staring at a screen.

Especially long articles, compared to the mobile phone will display more content within a screen, which can reduce the number of slides. Don’t underestimate the reduction in the number of slides. In this era of mobile phone brushing every day, tenosynovitis is almost an epidemic of modern people.

In the same way, when browsing some magazines, the iPad mini has a larger image size and a better visual perception.

Of course, the most important thing is that the big screen can also reduce eye fatigue. Compared to the previous generation, the iPad mini 5 also adds True Tone technology to change the color temperature of the device according to ambient light. With the night view mode, it can have a comfortable reading experience in a dark environment.

Of course, it can’t avoid comparing it with Kindle. In fact, it is very simple. If you read more and important pictures, the iPad mini is better, and if your reading content is only text, it is definitely the Kindle.

The iPad mini 5 is a device that is good for “hands” and “eyes” for text reading.

Together with the iPad mini, it is the most delicate screen on all iPads: ppi up to 326, which makes the text very sharp.

“Personal Notepad” anytime, anywhere

In the electronic notes on the market, the best experience of the integrated experience must be the iPad, which is definitely a consensus. There are Apple Pencil on the hardware to match the best quality LCD screen on the iPad. The software has excellent applications such as GoodNotes that emerged in the iOS ecosystem.

If you are a person who wants to embrace digital notes, there is no way to get around the iPad. Currently, if you want to experience digital notes on the iPad, you can choose iPad 2018 + first-generation Apple Pencil, and top-level iPad Pro + second-generation Apple Pencil.

But the last piece of the digital note is not filled. Because if we compare the iPad Pro or the iPad 2018 to a class note, we will almost always choose a notebook with an A4 paper size.

In life, we will have another record carrier demand, this is a portable notebook.

For some journalists or business people, taking notes anytime, anywhere is just a matter of necessity. For example, when I do some interviews, I carry a small notebook with me so that I can record important information during the communication process.

The advantages of the iPad mini size are highlighted here. For example, although I am a fan of digital notes, I rarely use the iPad Pro in some important occasions or face-to-face communication, because this product is too big, especially I am 12.9.

Once you are carrying it, you still need to bring a backpack. In many cases, I need to consider where to put this iPad. So when it comes to this, it is another magical place brought about by the size of the iPad mini, namely:

“The size of the iPad mini can fit into most girls’ carry-on bags and small boys’ pockets.”

The reason why most girls say that girls are the habit of carrying bags with them, whether they are living or working, but the size of these bags is not friendly for large iPads, unless they are particularly large. Almost all are difficult to install.

The size of the iPad mini is just the opposite. Even the relatively small female bags, such as Celine Box, MK Mercer, Gucci padlock, Chanel wandering bag, etc., can accommodate the iPad mini and an Apple Pencil.

Basically, female users can put it into most of their favorite bags anytime, anywhere, so that they can be used in more occasions without worrying about storage problems. This is also an important reason why the iPad mini is popular among women.

Of course, it is not always necessary for a boy to carry a backpack. As long as you have a bigger pocket of clothes, there is no problem with the iPad mini. When used as a portable notebook, there is no burden to use.

And back to the writing experience, the iPad mini is a “middle-end product.” There is no 120Hz high refresh rate, but as long as you have not used the iPad Pro, you will not feel the difference.

On the other hand, compared to the iPad 2018, it uses a fully-fitting screen so that you can clearly feel that it is written on the screen instead of a piece of glass. However, due to the size limitation, it is necessary to continuously enlarge and reduce the note paper during the recording process. This is an inevitable disadvantage of small screens.

Because of this, the iPad 2018 and iPad Pro are more suitable for long-term rigorous notes, while the iPad mini is more suitable for “shorthand” on multiple occasions. So the student group is particularly concerned about “note whether the iPad mini is good or the iPad 2018 is good”, I still recommend the iPad 2018. Because it is more suitable for long-term notes, on the other hand there will be a better PDF annotation experience.

(Of course, now you have another option, iPad Air, which I have recently used, as detailed in the official article.)

In addition to some of the regular usage scenarios mentioned above, there is still a group of people who will definitely like the iPad mini, which is the artist who needs to collect inspiration anytime and anywhere. Especially for some paint lovers or artists, iPad mini allows you to capture some scenes anytime, anywhere, and if it is a designer, you can put your creative ideas on paper in time.

All in all, the size of the iPad mini, coupled with the support of Apple Pencil, makes it a carry-on notebook.

I like the “iOS game console”

When the iPad mini was launched, many consumers bought it because of the “excellent iOS gaming experience.”

In the early days of iOS, the iPad mini 2 era, the game type of the iOS platform is absolutely a hundred flowers. A series of boutique indie games is like springing up, and I have done a series of game recommendations on social networks. Before the iPad mini did not appear, the general reaction was:

“The iPhone screen is small and not cool enough; the iPad screen is large and inconvenient.”

The size and charm of the iPad mini is once again manifested. On the one hand, the size is large enough to have some tension in the performance of some game screens, and on the other hand, it has an excellent hand-feeling operation, and the fingers can cover various types of buttons.

Mobile games are already a daily contact in everyone’s life, and more and more online games are beginning to shift to mobile phones.

At this time, let’s look at the iPad mini. It not only has the best experience in traditional iOS boutique games, but also stands out in the “king” and “chicken” tides in recent years.

For eating chicken, the iPad mini has almost no disadvantages.

A large-sized tablet is almost a physical plug-in, as it is very noticeable as long as there is a slight movement in the picture. In this way, you can find the enemy earlier than others. In short, it comes with a high power mirror.

I often play on the iPad Pro to stimulate the battlefield. Although the 12.9-inch tablet in both hands can be said to be very tired, once you switch back to the phone, it will not adapt, because it is too much to miss the visual impact of the big screen.

But the iPad mini is completely different. The hands-on buttons are very smooth after customization, and they don’t feel as tired as a large iPad.

However, the situation of the glory of the king is quite special. Due to the special screen ratio of the iPad mini, the content of the picture has an advantage in the vertical direction, and has a disadvantage in the horizontal direction. In other words, you can find the enemy up and down as early as possible, but the enemy around you may find it later. This is also a rare shortcoming of the iPad mini in terms of games.

Speaking of games, you have to mention the Apple Arcade service that Apple recently mentioned in the press conference. This service is designed to give users some of their favorite boutique games, such as Monument Valley. In fact, this explains why Apple will “resurrect” the iPad mini product line in a few years.

Because the iPad mini is the best hardware carrier for this service. Especially the iPad mini this time does not shrink on the hardware, directly using the A12 chip. This allows the iPad mini to run almost all of the high-definition games on the current iOS platform, and even the AR games are stress-free.

This is also reflected in the iPad mini 5, the highest quality of the game to stimulate the battlefield is only a slight fever. And 2,999 yuan can buy an A12 device, for many Android phone users is definitely not a small temptation. This can be said to be the most cost-effective threshold for entering the iOS ecosystem.

In summary, if you are a game enthusiast, whether you like the “fighting chicken” or “king” in the online battle category, killing time weapon “happy music” or like independent boutique games, iPad mini is currently Experience the best equipment.

In a way, it is a “game machine” for “family.”

Temporary emergency “workstation”

In the iPad product line, iPad Pro is the representative of Black Technology, which represents the top iPad products that Apple can build today. It is precisely because of the existence of such products that other iPad products on the entire iPad product line have a very high dividend.

In fact, before the advent of the iPad Pro, the iPad’s software ecosystem has always been in a very awkward position. Since the iPad is primarily a content consuming device, many of the content-producing software will not be available on the iPad version.

But now because of the catalysis of the iPad Pro, more and more productivity software is starting to be available on the iPad version. Although the iPad mini has a lot of inconvenience in content production due to limited screen size, it is precisely because the iPad Pro’s productivity software is absolutely capable of some sudden “emergency”.

Temporary code for a document, a simple poster, and a Vlog must be better than a mobile phone experience. This article is that I used an external Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad mini on the bear’s palm.

Traditional productivity software is inseparable from Office, and the interesting thing is that Office software charges are sized on iOS, ie tablets below 10.1 inches can be created or modified for free.

The size of the iPad mini is just a free range, and the new iPad Air is not free because it is 10.5 inches. In a way, the iPad mini also saves us a fee.

In this way, using the iPad mini to quickly read some documents while traveling, and then using Apple Pencil for some simple annotations is definitely better than the iPhone.

Of course, in addition to Office, the experience of WPS is now good enough, which is closer to the usage habits of Chinese users than Office. If you subscribe to WPS’s membership service, you can use cloud sync to view, modify, and annotate anytime, anywhere.

Of course, maybe your work environment needs to use some team collaboration software, such as nailing. These softwares also provide users with an excellent experience driven by the iPad Pro. When you are sharing an online meeting, you can also use Apple Pencil to directly share the whiteboard drawing diagram.

Of course, these premise are not to tell you that the iPad mini can be used to fully handle mobile work. This is unrealistic due to size limitations. But the iPad mini can do a good job of temporary emergency work.

Purchase suggestion

In fact, the features of the iPad mini can be summarized in just four sentences:

1. Multi-scene “text reader”.

2. With the “Personal Notebook” made up of Apple Pencil.

3. “12 game console” supported by A12.

4. “Emergency workstation” for business trips.

If any of the four items is just what you need in your life, then an iPad mini is a good fit.

The iPad mini is an advantage over the iPad 2018 in addition to its size. Of course, if you want a large-size tablet, such as a heavy PDF reader or a TV drama enthusiast, then the new iPad Air may be the best choice.

After all, the iPad is a “durable item” in consumer electronics, and the core guarantee of all this is a stronger chip. Simply put, the A processor’s digital number is one, which means you can use it for another year.

As for the cellular version, I always feel that it is an experience that you can’t get back when you use it.

Especially the current games are almost all online games. Or if you often use the iPad mini while on a business trip, then I especially recommend that you try the cellular version. Today’s traffic card charges are already very friendly.

Mobile phones open to the iPad and iPad Directly using the cellular network looks the same, but the people who have actually experienced it have a deep feeling of the huge difference between the two.

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In fact, what many people don’t know is that although the iPad was released on the iPhone, the iPad appeared on Apple’s internal blueprint earlier. Especially today, almost all mobile phones and tablets rely on multi-touch technology originally for the iPad.

One of the purposes of Steve Jobs’s initial iPad production was to make the netbook “affinitive.” If you start from this point, it explains why my feelings about the iPad mini will be “happy.”

Because the iPad mini really fulfills the task of “between the phone and the computer.” It’s bigger than a mobile phone, it has enough visual impact, it’s smaller than a computer, and it’s easy enough to use.

To be acknowledged, its design has not changed, and there is no leading Face ID and full screen. Even with the previous design, the HOME button return on the hardware and the full-screen slide gesture operation on the software are repeated.

But this $399 A12 chip iPad device is probably the best product to interpret the essence of the iPad.