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iPad mini Mini 8 Wishlist?

Phineasgage1848

Phineasgage1848

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My aging Mini 6 has me excited to see what Apple cooks up for a big Mini 8 upgrade. I’d love reduced bezels and for it to be a little thinner; I need OLED, ProMotion, and larger storage options. A NanoTexture option would be a longshot but an instant buy for me.

What updates are you hoping to see in the Mini 8?
 
I don't care about bezels, they are fine for me. And thinness is fine too.

I would like:
- OLED
- promotion (or at least 90hz)
- A19 pro with 12GB RAM (as it was rumored at some point) to avoid reloads (mini 6 reloads like crazy, mini 7 is much better but still reloads regularly)

Nano would be a very nice option but I'm not expecting it
 
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Digitalguy said:
I don't care about bezels, they are fine for me. And thinness is fine too.

I would like:
- OLED
- promotion (or at least 90hz)
- A19 pro with 12GB RAM (as it was rumored at some point) to avoid reloads (mini 6 reloads like crazy, mini 7 is much better but still reloads regularly)

Nano would be a very nice option but I'm not expecting it
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Agree the Mini 6 on iPadOS 26 reloads and stutters like crazy. Kind of embarrassing.
 
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OLED
90hz
Purple option
Bezels matching those of the Air (the rumoured 8.7 screen sounds good to me)
12GB RAM
Binned version of the latest A Series Pro chip
 
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A display at least as good and sharp as the Mini 5, but with modern internals. The Mini 5 has held up well and still runs amazingly good on iPadOS 18 for a 7 year old iPad. I don't dare put iPadOS 26 on it even though it does support the Mini 5.

Being that the Mini 8 should have an OLED display and will have new internals, my wish will most likely be granted. Let's just see what the price will be.
 
I just hope it comes soon with a better oiled screen .ilove the mini but with the pros I notice the poorer low res screen more and more
 
IJBrekke said:
I want options. Every other size sold has multiple offerings, aka you can pay more to get more features, or not. If the Mini followed suit I would be very happy.
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They could do what they did with the base iPad and keep the Mini 7 on sale for those wanting the form factor on a budget and offer a better screen refresh rate to those willing to pay for it. Paying extra for an OLED screen but getting the same old refresh rate would be jarring in the extreme.
 
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*~Kim~* said:
They could do what they did with the base iPad and keep the Mini 7 on sale for those wanting the form factor on a budget and offer a better screen refresh rate to those willing to pay for it. Paying extra for an OLED screen but getting the same old refresh rate would be jarring in the extreme.
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Absolutely. Aka, just give us the Mini Pro that every mini fan ever wants.
 
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Phineasgage1848 said:
My aging Mini 6 has me excited to see what Apple cooks up for a big Mini 8 upgrade. I’d love reduced bezels?
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I wonder how small the bezels can be without it becoming an issue. I feel like the ones on my iPP M1 are also rather fat, but then I see myself holding it right at those lines so I don't know. I guess Apple has done a lot of research around it, but certainly there should be clever software tricks they could do for it to not react on non-input touches.
 
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ScanTheNavian said:
I wonder how small the bezels can be without it becoming an issue. I feel like the ones on my iPP M1 are also rather fat, but then I see myself holding it right at those lines so I don't know. I guess Apple has done a lot of research around it, but certainly there should be clever software tricks they could do for it to not react on non-input touches.
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My Mini 6 seems very unresponsive at the edges, so it feels like they already do.
 
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*~Kim~* said:
My Mini 6 seems very unresponsive at the edges, so it feels like they already do.
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They have been doing this since 2017. To the point bezels don't matter anymore, contrary to what most people think.

Actually people believe they are "just" not touching the screen, only the bezels, when holding the device. Actually they are touching it all the time. If you try an android or windows tablet with bezels as thin as the iPad (or even thicker), you will have constant unwanted interactions with the screen. To the point that I find Android tablets unusable without an app that creates virtual, transparent bezels.
On Windows I haven't found such app, but at least in the latest Surface pro 11 Microsoft introduced a similar system where they avoid unwanted touches most of the time.
 
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*~Kim~* said:
My Mini 6 seems very unresponsive at the edges, so it feels like they already do.
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I agree and have often wondered if I have a defective unit it’s so unresponsive sometimes. “Smart touch input rejection” near the bezel areas when trying to scrub in the youtube app makes it basically impossible to do so in full screen.
 
Phineasgage1848 said:
I agree and have often wondered if I have a defective unit it’s so unresponsive sometimes. “Smart touch input rejection” near the bezel areas when trying to scrub in the youtube app makes it basically impossible to do so in full screen.
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It's still better than the virtual bezels on Android... I think it's a reasonable compromise. Having said that trying to make the bezels even thinner is very little gain anyway for possible even more problems
 
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