iPad mini How is thumb typing and the web on a Mini?

[trip1ex]

1. Is the Mini comfortable to thumb type on ? Obviously everyone has different sized hands/thumbs. For me, typing on an iPad I always found to be awkward. Landscape was too wide. And even in portrait it was a bit too wide and the keyboard was too low on the screen for typing to be enjoyable.

2. The web on a Mini. Do you do the mobile web on an iPad Mini? IT would seem one might go mobile web with it. Also feels like one might use phone apps where possible.

iPad Mini users, what say you to these 2 questions?!?!?

 

[Shirasaki]

I’m no mini user but thumb type on mini is going to be fine one way or another. iPad mini could be the better middle ground between iPhone and Mac for some users.

 

[IJBrekke]

1. The Mini remains my favorite iOS device, and a significant piece of that is the absolute perfect width in portrait orientation for thumb typing. Any other iPad feels downright cumbersome to type on compared to a Mini. It’s a huge positive for the form factor. I much prefer it to any iPhone.

2. Usually I use the full browser and not the mobile. There are select situations where I need to pinch-zoom if text is too small, but it’s not often. I should mention, however, that I have excellent vision and have never struggled with small text. If this isn’t the case, a test drive would be totally necessary. The Mini 5 has no trouble keeping up with loading heavy websites.

 

[trip1ex]

1. The Mini remains my favorite iOS device, and a significant piece of that is the absolute perfect width in portrait orientation for thumb typing. Any other iPad feels downright cumbersome to type on compared to a Mini. It’s a huge positive for the form factor. I much prefer it to any iPhone.

2. Usually I use the full browser and not the mobile. There are select situations where I need to pinch-zoom if text is too small, but it’s not often. I should mention, however, that I have excellent vision and have never struggled with small text. If this isn’t the case, a test drive would be totally necessary. The Mini 5 has no trouble keeping up with loading heavy websites.

i did look at the old one in store today. Never paid much attention before. And noticed that some websites launch an iPad Mini friendly site perhaps mobile site even. Like The Verge or NYTimes. They automatically look like they are made for the Mini.

Contast that to Yahoo.com which looks like the full blown desktop site on my computer and is too small for me at least to be used without some double tapping or pinch/zoom-ing.