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    Apple iPad mini (2019)

    May 17, 2019 7 minutes
    Henry Burrell

    Price: £399 from fave.co/2DyVlQ9

    This wasn’t meant to happen. The mini hadn’t been updated since 2015 and was left out in the cold, costing more than the larger 9.7in iPads that were released since. We thought Apple had left it for dead.

    The introduction of this 2019 model is a surprise – it’s barely different on first glance and yes, those bezels sure look huge after the past four years of consumer technology working towards bezel-less displays. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the mini, finding that I pick it up far more often than I do with a larger iPad.

    Using devices more is sometimes a bad thing, but this iPad lends itself to reading far more than it does scrolling through endless timelines. It’s not an iPad for Instagram or Twitter. At its heart it’s a great eReader, news app displayer and Netflix enabler.

    Unlike Apple’s other iPads it’s not striving to replace your laptop, but instead quietly does some things better than one. If you don’t mind the ageing design, the smallest iPad could be a better option for you than any

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