APPLE IPAD MINI 4 (WIFI+CELLULAR) REVIEW

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Apple launched its next gen tablet namely IPad mini 4 in India which is priced @ 38,900/-(16GB Variant), 45,900/-(64GB Variant), 52,900/-(128GB Variant). It is available in Space Grey, Silver & Gold shades.

DESIGN, DURABLITY & DISPLAY
The design of this tablet is very good. It uses scratch resistant shatter proof glass with fingerprint resistant Oleophobic coating on the front and a brush alluminum unibody finish on the back. It is slim at 6.1mm and weighs 304g. It has a 7.9inch (Retina Display) 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 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 (file sharing from apple to apple only) and USB 2.0 reversible connector come as standard. But lacks NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has an 8MP Rear camera with autofocus 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, 720p@120fps ,HDR video recording with video stabilization and  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 9 out of the box it is upgradable to IOS 9.2. It has an Apple A8X (Typhoon based ARM V8A) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a dual core processor clocked at 1.5 GHZ with 2GB RAM and PowerVR GX6450 MP4( Quad-Core graphics). The performance is Excellent 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 5124 MAH (19.1 Wh) battery. The battery life is Very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 12H.
VIDEO WATCHING : upto 10H.
TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 14H(3G).
STANDBY TIME : upto 640H(2G) / upto 610H(3G).

PROS
*Top class build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angles.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity.
*Excellent performance.
*Touch ID Fingerprint scanner.
*Good Loudspeaker.
*Very good battery life.

CONS
*Non-removable battery.
*No MicroSD card slot.
*No NFC support and limited apple pay services.
*Pricy & lack of 32GB variant.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.4/10.

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