APPLE IPAD MINI 3 REVIEW (WIFI + CELLULAR)


Apple launched its next gen tablet namely IPad mini 3 in India which is priced @ 38,990/-. It is available in Black, White & Gold shades.

DESIGN, DURABLITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is pretty good. It uses scratch resistant shatter proof glass with fingerprint resistant coating on the front and a brush alluminum unibody finish on the back. It is slim at 7.5mm and weighs 331gms(Wifi only) & 341 (4G). It has a 7.9inch 16M colour LED backlit IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen of 1536 x 2048 resolution with 324ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Excellent. The screen supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great. It also has fingerprint sensor (Touch ID) which is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITES
It has a 16GB/64GB/128GB internal storage and is not further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as I-music, I-movies, as wells as default gallery provides storing of music, videos, and images respectively. On-board connectivity's such as 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi , Bluetooth 4.0 (file sharing from apple to apple only) and USB 2.0 come standard. But lacks NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has an 5MP Rear camera which features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Geo tagging, sweep panorama, Face & Smile detection, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Excellent overall. Daytime the images are very good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite nice. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and mono sound having bit-rate of 18 Mbps in MP4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite nice. It has a 1.2 MP Front camera which does HD 720p@30fps video recording. The clarity is pretty good .

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & PERFORMANCE
It runs IOS 8.1 out of the box it is upgradable to IOS 8.1.3. It has an Apple A7 processer (Cyclone based ARM V8) running a dual core at 1.3 GHZ with 1GB RAM and PowerVR GX 6430MP4( quad-core graphics). The performance is great which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smoothly and there is no lag at all.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non-removable Li-Pro 6470 MAH battery. The battery life is Very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 13:20H.
VIDEO WATCHING : upto 10:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 15H (2G) / upto 13:30H (3G).
STANDBY TIME : upto 620H (2G) / upto 600H (3G).

PROS
*Top class build quality.
*Excellent display and screen viewing angles.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*Great performance.
*Loudspeaker is good.
*Very good battery life.

CONS
*Number of apps are bit less compared when compared to android.
*Non-removable battery.
*No MicroSD card slot.
* No NFC support and limited apple pay services.
*1GB RAM might be a limiting factor at certain responsible occations.
*Pricy & lack of 32GB makes for an option for 64GB which is highly priced 32GB should have been standard instead of 16GB.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.2/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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