New iPad mini 2019 - Unboxing and Overview By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech- and this is the fifth generation iPad Mini, the original iPad Mini, came out on November 2nd 2012. So it's been a long time, and it hasn't changed too much, but we'll take a look at this one in just a moment and compare it with the old one. Now this comes in at 399, with 64 gigabytes of storage or 256 gigabytes of storage for 549. If you add 129 dollars, you can get cellular or LTE for a total of 679 for the top-of-the-line model. This one is the 64 gigabyte model. Now, let's go ahead and open it up.

Let's take a look on the back and one thing: you'll notice is the actual box doesn't really say anything as far as fifth generation there's not a real way to distinguish this if you're not familiar with the iPad Mini line. So let's go ahead and open this up. Take the wrapper off here, and I was able to find this at a local Best Buy, and they had them before the Apple Store. So let's go ahead and open this up. There's the box here is the iPad Mini.

Now I'll be honest: I haven't used the iPad Mini in a very long time. I only have the first generation iPad Mini I wasn't a huge fan of it because I liked the larger size, but it served its purpose. So, in the box we've got a lightning cable, just lightning to USB a and then here we have some documentation. Let's see if there's anything exciting in here we've got our Apple stickers in there as well, some smaller Apple stickers or mini Apple stickers. It says iPad, Mini and just tells a little about it and that's really it.

Let's put this away now. Inside this, we've got the iPad charger no longer with the smaller charger, and this is the 12 watt charger. So we can see that there. So that's nice, we've got the 12 watt charger and the iPad Mini, let's go ahead and take the wrapper off, and this is in space gray. If you haven't noticed already so, let's set this aside, and we'll take a closer look.

So this is the iPad Mini doesn't look too unfamiliar to me. You've got your normal touch, ID sensor here your display, and this display is a 7.9 inch. Retina display it's 2048 by 1536, with 326 pixels per inch. Now this is a fully laminated display, so it's actually glued to the display underneath we'll take a closer look at that once I turn it on. It has a p3 wide, color gamut, true town and oleo phobic coating anti-reflective coating, and it can go up to 500 nits of brightness.

So let's go ahead and turn it on, and we'll boot it up, and you'll see around the outside edge. We have our stereo speakers on the bottom, lightning, cable or lightning port. Rather on this side, the volume buttons on the top power sleep-wake a little microphone, a headphone jack, nothing on this side and that's pretty much it is a little microphone in the back. Your camera and this camera are an 8 megapixel camera. With an F 2.4 lens. It's got autofocus.

It only does 1080p video and that's not great, but on the front we do have a 7 megapixel camera with enough 2.2. That also does 1080p. Now the iPad has booted up. Let's go ahead and enable zoom press home to open you can set this up and just to compare really quickly. Let me power that off and bring over the old iPad.

This is the original first gen iPad, and this is in a black color. So we'll take the cover off here and this one can't even be updated to iOS 12 you'll, see if I slide to unlock this is you'll, see if I slide up. We've got the old control center. This is an older version, iOS 9, and it's terribly slow. So even going to things like the App Store are pretty unbearable, but if we put them side-by-side, the only thing you can really notice from the front here is its a laminated display, and it has touch ID on the back they're pretty much the same and nothing's changed too much when it comes to that now.

One thing I wanted to try is this is a first generation Smart Cover. It looks like the magnets, don't really line up perfectly, so there's definitely a difference here where the magnets line up. So if you had an old Smart Cover, you may need to buy a new one. The magnets not correct there, it kind of works, but not really like it should now. While many people were really excited about the new iPad Mini, they were hoping for the new design, like we have with this new twelve point: nine inch design where it's a little more squared off, and I think looks a little better, but the nice thing is all of your accessories should work with this, except for maybe that Smart Cover, like I, showed so let's go ahead and agree to these.

Will it continue we'll hit enable set Apple Pay up later I'm going to use my keychain we'll set that up later you'll see this is zipping right through no problem continue to continue. Continue is just telling us how to use it, and now we're in, so this looks pretty good and in fact it's really fast, and you can see where I said. This is a laminated display right here. You can actually see that there's no gap there's no air gap at all. So let me bring in the old iPad and you can actually see there's a little of an air gap going on there and the screen doesn't feel like it's right.

On top so you'll see the sizes are basically the same as far as thickness goes. I'd say this new iPad Mini is a little thinner actually and set this one aside and let's go ahead and turn this up a little and I think it looks pretty good so far and the new thing about this is: it supports the Apple Pencil now. The weird thing about that is, it doesn't support the newest generation pencil. It supports the old generation pencil. So that's this one.

It's got the awkward way of charging it, but if we put this in here, it should pair well give it a moment there we go. It popped up. Finally, hip hair and that's usually if we can just take this off here and see. Auto-Rotate works quite well. Let's trim it off for now, but you'll see it works with the pencil now like I said it does not work with the second-generation pencil.

So this one there's no way to pair it or anything like that, so you'll want the first-generation pencil, and you can use this will work. Just fine and I know. A lot of people are going to be very happy with this. Let's see what version of iOS it comes with, it does have that new news app, so it probably has the latest version you can see. It is installed with the latest iOS update so that part's nice, it was pre-installed with 12.2 I, didn't have to update it or anything, and then we have Apple Pencil support, of course, so that part's really nice now the other thing with this it should last 10 hours on battery, just like all the other iPads do, and you've got pretty much everything you're accustomed to. If you have an iPad Mini already now, if you do get the gigabit LTE version, you will have GPS, but otherwise you've got all the same sensors.

Basically your compass, your eye, beacon, Mona micro, location, accelerometer, three-axis, gyro and barometer, and it also has Wi-Fi a BGN and AC. So it's all up to date. As far as that goes, the strange thing is: is this is a little more expensive than the regular iPad, but it looks like it has a little nicer screen. The viewing angle is pretty good. I, don't see any issues there.

Let's see the brightness, it's nice and bright, although not as bright as some of the most recent displays from Apple, but it looks pretty good, and you've got that a12, processor and ovary. Try there we go. It's got the a12 processor in it, so it should be superfast, so the same processor, that's in all the modern Apple devices, and you shouldn't have any slowdowns. In fact, it comes with iMovie. You could use that to edit 4k video.

It should work just fine on this device. We should also be able to do split screen, which would be interesting. Let's see what we can do here. If we bring this up, maybe bring up this here. So we have Safari on the right, let's go to Apple and you get the idea.

We can do that split screen here. It's kind of weird looking like that, but you can do it if you'll turn off rotate here and see what we've got we'll go back home, and now it looks a little better that way. So we can fully use this like a larger iPad, and if you like to hold on to it with these bezels, it's pretty nice, it feels pretty rigid. It does have a little of flex to it, but I mean I'm barely pushing. So if you really were to twist this hard by accident or something you could bend it I suppose, but it feels pretty rigid.

So that's it for the iPad Mini, there's not a lot more to say about it other than it's a great little iPad. If you want the mini, it may be a little expensive, especially if you get the larger storage option. You've just got those two 64 gigabytes and 256, but let me know if you'd like to see a full review of this or, if there's anything else, you'd like to know specifically about this I'll, try and answer that a little later. Let me know in the comments below, if you'd like, to get your hands on the wallpaper that I have on the original iPad here. I'll leave that in the description below as well, so you can check it out if you haven't subscribed already, though, please subscribe, and if you enjoyed this video, please give it a like, if not the other ones, okay ?, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron.

I'll see you next time.

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