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Apple’s New iPad Mini Costs $100 More, Adds a Brand-New Screen

Phandroid·Tyler Lee·about 8 hours ago
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If you’ve been waiting on a new iPad mini, Apple just put a price on it. It’s higher than what you’d pay today.

Apple announced the new tablet on Monday, with the Wi-Fi model starting at $699. The version with cellular service starts at $849. That’s $100 more than the $599 Apple charges for the current model. Apple already raised that model’s price by $100 in June .

What the extra $100 gets you

The biggest change is the screen. The old mini used an LCD panel. The new one uses OLED, where every tiny dot makes its own light. That means deeper blacks and richer colors. Apple says it’s also more than twice as bright as before, which should help outdoors.

The display grows from 8.3 inches to 8.5 inches. The tablet stays the same size because the borders around the screen are 24 percent thinner. The body shrinks too, down to 5.4 millimeters from 6.3.

The mini also gets water and dust protection. Apple gave it an IP67 rating. That means it passed testing in about three feet of water for up to 30 minutes.…

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