All iPads Illustration of the difference between iPad Mini 8.3" and and iPad Pro 11" screen sizes

[GradSchool2021]

While waiting for the Mini to arrive at Apple Stores, I used Excel to back-calculate the usable screen size (based on screen resolution and diagonal length posted on Apple's website) and PowerPoint to draw this. Pinned my iPhone XS Max against this picture and it seems accurate.

Anyways, a few days ago I posted a question about whether I should buy an iPad Mini 6 256GB (US$790 after taxes) or an iPad Pro M1 128GB (US$875 after taxes). Yeah, very weird pricing in my country.

With this picture, it confirms that there is not a huge size difference between my current iPhone XS Max and iPad Mini 6. Technically, the screen size of Mini 6 is ~2.0x larger, but since I use my iPhone in the landscape mode to read PDFs (where there's a lot of zooming & scrolling), I don't expect reading PDFs on Mini to be much better. Therefore, I'm inclining toward the IPP option, though I'll need to see them both in-store to confirm my purchase.

Anyways, each person has a different use case ?. If you have a smaller phone, I'm sure you'll like the Mini 6.

 

[sparksd]

I have a 12 Pro Max and an 8" Galaxy Tab tablet reasonably close to the Mini 6 in size and would consider them to be significantly different in size in use (I also have the 12.9 iPP for comparison purposes).

 

[wilberforce]

I have an Iphone 11 Pro Max, and one of the older (7.9") iPad Minis.
The Mini is FAR better for viewing pdfs. Don't kid yourself that they are almost the same.

Most letter page size pdfs can be viewed full page in portrait orientation on the iPad Mini, unless the text is very small. And if it is small, you just briefly rotate it to landscape to get a closer view, then rotate it back again.

Viewing pdfs on a phone, even a Pro Max, is like looking through a horizontal slit when in landscape, and is just too tiny to read in portrait. I only ever use a phone to view a pdf when I am out where I have no other option.

For example, this pdf page is readable on the iPad Mini full page (but smaller text than this would not be):