Love everything about the mini apart from the screen and CPU. I had a long play with the mini and loaded a magazine onto the device and found it hard to read. Considering thats my primary use I will wait for the Retina version.
Fail. The Nexus 7 has a 1.3 mp front facing camera for Skype. It is not intended to be a camera for pictures. Fail 2 it comes with better then 3g. Fail 3 it has stereo speakers. Fail 4 the screen is crisp and clear.
Man where do people get facts from. Your entire post is a fail.
Fail 1: So you agree that Nexus has far worse camera than mini. In addition to have worse front camera, it has no back camera at all. So when you shoot by its only camera, you even can't focus on what you shooting. There is no even camera app.
Fail 2: So you agree that Nexus is thicker, heavier, has fewer apps.
Fail 3. TechRadar and Cnet review: "we were disappointed to discover the overall contrast was somewhat muted on our review unit. (It's particularly noticeable on the home screens)...the Nexus 7 seems to lack the kind of deep, rich black levels you might find on something like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (which admittedly uses a more saturated, contrast-rich Super AMOLED display instead)."... The screen is responsive to touch and swipe, but possibly could use just a bit more sensitivity calibration, as some of my swipes would only half take.
Fail 4: Nowhere it says it has stereo. "In any case, on my loaner Nexus 7 I can't hear much of a stereo effect, even on songs with hard panning. That may explain why Google isn't making a big deal out of it".
Man, your entire post is fail.
Dude its not a camera so why have a camera app. Its a front facing camera. No it does not have fewer apps. List the differences in apps. Apple never said the mini had stereo speakers either so what does that mean? Oh because you could not hear stereo it does not have it? Lol. You continue to post nonsense and thus fail. Thanks for the lol though.
But is the experience on the mini significantly better that you're willing to do through your bag to get it when you want to look something up instead of using the iPhone that's already in your hand? For me the big ipad definitely is significantly better. It definitely fills the hole for me for when I'm sitting in my lounge and suddenly want to look at something on the web, but can't be bothered to get to my computer up stairs, turn it on, only to browse, and so I settle for a skimped out browser of the iPhone. Just an example. Ymmv
I am still waiting for you to start discussing the technical merits of the device. Let's start with screen resolution. How does iPad Mini resolution compare with 7" Android devices?
It won't be remotely close to being considered the best device out there now until it has a higher PPI. Reading on this thing is awful.
Its screen is 49% smaller than mini. And already had been said about washed colors and lack of black depth.
Camera: .. "1.2MP front-facing camera, although Google chose to eliminate the dedicated Camera app ..it does make the camera somewhat worthless for those just taking it out of the box. One can't use it with Instragram: "Unfortunately, you're likely to have far less luck with popular photo-taking apps such as Instagram. Browsing that title on Google Play throws up an error that "your device isn't compatible with this version," and we're waiting for Facebook to tweak the app accordingly."
It has fewer optimised apps (read above). About stereo: Google even won't call its stereo.
And I guess you agree that its thick, heavy and has no 3G : "the only downside of Nexus.. that it's currently limited to Wi-Fi connectivity" Even then it comes only with slowest wifi: "The tablet comes standard with 802.11b/g/n, although regrettably it's only of the 2.4GHz variety, rather than the superfast 5GHz band. " And its thicker and heavier.
Fail.
Thanks for lol.
Amazing, that with all the myriad threads on this site discussing how people like/want/need/use a 7" device that there are people who still don't understand. Please go read some of them.
For me personally I'm not going into the details of why I wanted this sized device, but I do want to say that I don't walk around life with an iPhone in my hand, I've just simply got better things to do with life.
Mango > banana > apple > orange
Does typing suck on the mini? I want to buy one because I love the concept, but I worry about typing basically iPhone style instead of naturally as if using a keyboard. Thoughts???
I can't think of any other logical explanation for such a stupid post.
you're a rude little child
Does typing suck on the mini? I want to buy one because I love the concept, but I worry about typing basically iPhone style instead of naturally as if using a keyboard. Thoughts???
I find I can type about the same as I can on the full size iPad. Using three fingers on each hand plus a thumb for the space bar. Probably about half as fast as I can touch type on a physical keyboard.
It's a nice device, apart from the screen.
The screen borders on unusable and is definitely unacceptable for a company with display standards such as Apple.
So buy one next year, when the come out with a retina mini. I'll be holding out for that.
I have been playing with it since yesterday at 3pm and I swear I can't put It down. I have owned every iPhone out I have the 5 right now and owned iPad 1,2 and 3rd gen with retina and have owned a 7" kindle fire and I swear this beats them all I mean even with the non retina display I find playing games,browsing the web and watching youtube videos very easy on the eyes I don't know why people are complaining apple has a big hit with this mini can't wait for mini 2.
You don't.I call shenanigans on this. The screen looks great IMO. I have no trouble seeing it or reading small print.
Personally, I'd gladly pay 150$ more for a Retina display, and just as well accept 2mm additional thickness.In fact if using retina is going to cause them to raise the price or increase the weight/thickness of the device, I'd just as soon they skip retina on future versions