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iPad mini iPad Mini 7 (or Mini 6) Users - Which size iPhone do you also use?
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I use to have an SE & iPad mini (2, then 5). This year I replaced my SE with a 12 mini. This year I also got an iPad Pro 11” (M1) - ever since which, I’ve not touched my iPad mini. I now also have an Ultra 2, so the need for a mini phone has reduced significantly.
The U2 has taken the place of my small phone, my next phone will take the place of my iPad mini, and my iPad Pro is my iPad of choice now.
I don’t see an iPad mini in my future, sadly.
The U2 has taken the place of my small phone, my next phone will take the place of my iPad mini, and my iPad Pro is my iPad of choice now.
I don’t see an iPad mini in my future, sadly.
I have a 15PM and the Mini 6. I even have a 6th gen 12.9 iPad Pro. I have used the Pro/Pro Max size phones size since they launched. I use my mini just as much as I use my 15Pm, although for the last 2 months, I have been heavily using my 15PM to push the battery to its limit and get it to 79% by next year.
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None. Install VOIP app and use buds. iPad Mini 6 or 7 becomes a great phone- no additional spending required.
Make it a cellular Mini and it is a 5G "phone" too that costs significantly less in both hardware cellular service.
I've been doing this for about 10 years now, since Mini 2. No problems at all. Works great for my purposes.
Doubters? Install VOIP app on any existing iPad (or even iPod touch if you still have one). They will usually give you a phone number for free. Then call your phone and/or use your phone to call your iPad (yes it will ring, just like a phone). Text your phone number and reply back to your iPad. It "just works" fine because telephony is only an app... just like other apps can make an iDevice become a flashlight, camcorder, tape measure, camera, voice recorder, video editor, iPod, etc.
BONUS: iPads tend to have long use-life legs, unlike iPhone which seems to suffer the "long in tooth" effect in only about 3 or so years. Wonder why? Since Apple somewhat ignores iPad mini, the 7 is probably the "latest" one for the next 2-3 years and thus, they won't be slowing it down while it is the one currently for sale. I rode that 2 for EIGHT years- try that with an iPhone. I expect to ride the 6 until about 2029-2030 at which time, I'll move on to the cellular 9 or 10.
Make it a cellular Mini and it is a 5G "phone" too that costs significantly less in both hardware cellular service.
I've been doing this for about 10 years now, since Mini 2. No problems at all. Works great for my purposes.
Doubters? Install VOIP app on any existing iPad (or even iPod touch if you still have one). They will usually give you a phone number for free. Then call your phone and/or use your phone to call your iPad (yes it will ring, just like a phone). Text your phone number and reply back to your iPad. It "just works" fine because telephony is only an app... just like other apps can make an iDevice become a flashlight, camcorder, tape measure, camera, voice recorder, video editor, iPod, etc.
BONUS: iPads tend to have long use-life legs, unlike iPhone which seems to suffer the "long in tooth" effect in only about 3 or so years. Wonder why? Since Apple somewhat ignores iPad mini, the 7 is probably the "latest" one for the next 2-3 years and thus, they won't be slowing it down while it is the one currently for sale. I rode that 2 for EIGHT years- try that with an iPhone. I expect to ride the 6 until about 2029-2030 at which time, I'll move on to the cellular 9 or 10.
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I use an iPhone 14 Pro Max and had the mini 6 and now the 7. I feel the mini iPad is still significantly larger screen size. I keep my mini at home and of course never leave the house with out my iPhone.
iPad mini 7 and iPhone 16 Plus. Waiting now for the new iPad Air 2025 to arrive to complement my two devives with a bit bigger iPad screen.
iPhone 15 Pro Max with the new iPad mini 7.
At least when they get lack of support, it’ll be at the same time since they use the same exact binned CPU and RAM.
At least when they get lack of support, it’ll be at the same time since they use the same exact binned CPU and RAM.
Not necessarily. iPhone 6S/6S+/OG were A9/2GB like the iPad 5 but cut a year earlier. The A10 iPhone 7+ also had the extra RAM (like the Pros do now) but was dropped before the iPad 7.
Apple seems to go more for release date/when a device was last sold nowadays as the hardware doesn’t require them to drop as much as it did in the past. The Mini’s lack of updates forces them to support it for longer. I guess we’ll know more when we see what the earliest Pro iPhone is dropped with, and whether the rumoured shorter iPad Mini cycle this time materialises.