iPad mini Any LTE rMinis without screen problems?

[yoshimeow]

Testing a screen in a manner that falls outside of normal usage is only going to bring headaches and frustration. If the screen looks great when you use it - enjoy it Why try to pick nits and see if there's a tiny problem by doing something (to find the defects) that would never do in actual usage.



Maybe that's why I'm so happy

that's the problem...it doesnt look great in normal usage to me. The yellow tint and gradient change is quite annoying. I've gone through 7 ipad minis and all but my original has the yellow tint problem. I returned my original because it came with a small ding on the chamfer edge. I would gladly take that back now. The 6 i've gotten after that all have the crappy screen. Looks like there are two ipad mini screens. One is definitely whiter/brighter than the other. Both have a gradient change except it's a lot more noticeable on the warmer screen and the gardient shift is a lot larger. It really goes from cool white to pee yellow. I gave up on my 7th mini and decided to use it for a few days to see if i would stop noticing. . I havent.. so it's going back again on Friday. I'm going to try one last time .. otherwise I guess i'm returning it or I might consider the air and test my luck there. .

I'm starting to hate apple.. arghh

 

[Tork]

that's the problem...it doesnt look great in normal usage to me. The yellow tint and gradient change is quite annoying. I've gone through 7 ipad minis and all but my original has the yellow tint problem. I returned my original because it came with a small ding on the chamfer edge. I would gladly take that back now. The 6 i've gotten after that all have the crappy screen. Looks like there are two ipad mini screens. One is definitely whiter/brighter than the other. Both have a gradient change except it's a lot more noticeable on the warmer screen and the gardient shift is a lot larger. It really goes from cool white to pee yellow. I gave up on my 7th mini and decided to use it for a few days to see if i would stop noticing. . I havent.. so it's going back again on Friday. I'm going to try one last time .. otherwise I guess i'm returning it or I might consider the air and test my luck there. .

I'm starting to hate apple.. arghh

If I were you, I'd wait several weeks or a month or so to do an exchange. It seems like fewer and fewer of the newer ones (week 50 and beyond) have the yellow tint at the bottom. My week 46 DLXL 32 GB LTE had a yellow tinted bottom 1/4, but the week 50 DLXL I just exchanged it with is absolutely perfect. Give them time to flush all the early production models out of the system, then go in for an AppleCare exchange if it's so visible and bothersome.

 

[Dlanod]

that's the problem...it doesnt look great in normal usage to me. The yellow tint and gradient change is quite annoying. I've gone through 7 ipad minis and all but my original has the yellow tint problem. I returned my original because it came with a small ding on the chamfer edge. I would gladly take that back now. The 6 i've gotten after that all have the crappy screen. Looks like there are two ipad mini screens. One is definitely whiter/brighter than the other. Both have a gradient change except it's a lot more noticeable on the warmer screen and the gardient shift is a lot larger. It really goes from cool white to pee yellow. I gave up on my 7th mini and decided to use it for a few days to see if i would stop noticing. . I havent.. so it's going back again on Friday. I'm going to try one last time .. otherwise I guess i'm returning it or I might consider the air and test my luck there. .



I'm starting to hate apple.. arghh

In my experience the Air is worse. Returned one yesterday and the Apple employee took it to the specialist who said it was a feature of iBooks. Pointed out that if you rotate the screen it goes to the other side of the screen. This was too much for them and they chose not to understand my point. I got a refund and that's me done with the Air.

I have an rMini now that is not bad - certainly one if the better ones I've seen. If I want an iPad I think it will have an uneven screen tint of some kind.

And frankly if it's a jerky Android UI or an uneven tint (and many Android tabs have the same tint problems) I'll probably settle for iOS.

 

[yoshimeow]

If I were you, I'd wait several weeks or a month or so to do an exchange. It seems like fewer and fewer of the newer ones (week 50 and beyond) have the yellow tint at the bottom. My week 46 DLXL 32 GB LTE had a yellow tinted bottom 1/4, but the week 50 DLXL I just exchanged it with is absolutely perfect. Give them time to flush all the early production models out of the system, then go in for an AppleCare exchange if it's so visible and bothersome.

all of the ones i've come across are around week 50. My first one was a week 50 from pegatron and the screen was perfect. I didnt know these screens were so rare or else I would have lived with the small dent in the chamfer edge.

All other ones i've had since are from Foxconn DLXL from week 48-50. All have a ugly yellow hue at the bottom. Some worse than others. Going to try my luck at the apple store one more time. If it's still yellow I'll just get my money back for now.

I actually think it's luck of the draw and it's not any manufacturing issue but the screen supplier/vendor. Some of them just simply have the better brighter whiter panels.

 

[mrgossett]

Mine is a DLXLR, week 48 from Foxconn, and to my eye, the screen is perfect with no yellow or discolored areas anywhere.

 

[N04h]

And frankly if it's a jerky Android UI or an uneven tint (and many Android tabs have the same tint problems) I'll probably settle for iOS.

I am not sure what you mean by 'jerky UI'. It works fine for me (stock Android 4.4)

 

[Dlanod]

I am not sure what you mean by 'jerky UI'. It works fine for me (stock Android 4.4)

A Nexus 7? Looked at a Note 10.1 2014 and it seemed stuttery.

 

[N04h]

A Nexus 7? Looked at a Note 10.1 2014 and it seemed stuttery.

Well a Note runs Samsung's bloated TouchWiz UI so that's not unexpected.

Stock Android (I have a Nexus 7) doesn't lag. This is one of the reasons to stay away from devices with custom UIs (Samsung, HTC etc)

 

[Max(IT)]

I am not sure what you mean by 'jerky UI'. It works fine for me (stock Android 4.4)

I was puzzled by all the people speaking about Nexus as the "solution to all the problem", so yesterday I spent literally three hours playing with a brand new Nexus 7 and a Galaxy Note 10.
Well, there is almost no difference between the two devices in user experience.
Just a little too much bloatware on the Samsung side, as usual, but they are not so different and surely they are not better than any iPad I had.
Don't get me wrong, they are good devices, especially compared to the crowd of crappy devices Android world offers (including galaxy Tabs ....), and the nexus are very well priced and attractive, but they still use Android, which just don't fit my personal taste for an os.