visualseed
macrumors 6502a
Buying this the moment it is announced and for sale. My Mini 5 is showing its age when it comes to using it with my drone controller.
Alleged iPad Mini 6 Case Images Show Redesign With Relocated Volume Buttons For Full-Size Apple Pencil
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Mr Todhunter
macrumors 6502
And how do you know that? A voice in your head told you?
Marshall73
macrumors 68030
Hope it has Face ID. Just can’t go back to a button to unlock. That would mess with the flow of using my iPhone and iPad Pro.
Crow_Servo
macrumors 6502a
If I'm plying a game in landscape orientation, I can definitely see myself accidentally hitting those volume buttons all the time.
True! It still amazes me that we still have a mute button.
RevTEG
macrumors 65816
If the iPad was buttonless, how would we turn it back on after it was shut down?
SactoGuy18
macrumors 603
Think "iPad Air 4 writ small." That's what the iPad mini 6 is.
Jobs was talking about how poor the experience was using a stylus as the only way for basic navigation on phones and tablets. See the HTC TyTyn/Vario II running Windows Mobile around the time the iPhone was announced. I had one, it was a Swiss Army knife at the time, I loved it, but it was clearly an awful experience for basic tasks.
He wasn’t talking about precision stylus use for select, creative endeavours.
azentropy
macrumors 601
I’ve been without a mini for 2 plus years now. I gave my mom my iPad mini 4 (which replaced her 2) anticipating the 5. But the 5 was such a dud I decided to pass. Was hoping the 6 would be announced tomorrow as I’m traveling the end of the month and in early October and that is where and when I really preferred it over the larger iPads.
Tagbert
macrumors 604
then they would be blocked if you have it in a folio case or in a landscape keyboard mount. There will always be small compromises needed to accommodate the different orientations.
Tagbert
macrumors 604
Oh, no one ever thought of that!
In reality, like the iPhone and iPad Pro/Air, those edges are not actually sharp. There are small bevels that smooth out the edges. It hasn't been a problem so far.
Tagbert
macrumors 604
This. I have a Kindle Paperwhite and Amazon puts the power button on the bottom where your fingers go when holding it. it would be OK if you could rotate it 180deg, but that's not availabe.
My Kindle Paperwhite is the best thing (let alone device), I've ever owned. Bezos deserves his fortune just for that alone. Funny how no one else even bothers with that type of thing.
This new Mini looks nice though
rpmurray
macrumors 68020
Maybe a dongle? Apple is big on dongles.
spinedoc77
macrumors G4
The mini 6 still is a bittersweet device for me. I wish they shrunk the size down and kept the same screen size, it would have made it very portable, but oh well. I'll still have to deal with the toy OS, at least until MS makes a tiny surface pro (which will be never sigh).
klasma
macrumors G3
I’m still disappointed they moved the power button to the side on iPhones (and didn’t change it back at least on the iPhone mini).
About time they do that for all iPads.
Tagbert
macrumors 604
It looks like, in portrait, volume down would be done by pressing the left button and volume up would be done by pressing the right button. Similar to the Mac keyboard. Left is less and Right is more.
Rotated to landscape the volume down (left) button would be down and the volume up (right) button would be up.
Seems like this would be a natural mapping to expectations. Nothing to change.
The current volume buttons in landscape annoys me
Realityck
macrumors G5
The image clearly shows speakers added to the top side so that the iPad mini will be on parity with other iPads that you can watch videos while the iPad is rotated to horizontal usage. Hope that turns out to be true.