Apple Retail Stores Begin Offering Walk-In Sales of Retina iPad Mini Models

[Brenster]

I said when this thing was announced that it is the iPad I have been waiting for. Now that I've had it for a week, I will repeat what I previously said - This is the iPad I have been waiting for, and the wait is over! These ridiculous screen issues don't bother me the slightest bit.

This. Had mine since launch day and the size feels so much better than the 3rd gen ipad it replaced. And I've watched video, surfed the web, read via Kindle and played music (including checking out full screen carefully curated album art via the music and Sonos apps) and like Shirsch999 I've never once had cause to consider the colour ering in any way deficient. I may have got lucky with my particular device but this ipad lacks for nothing in my book.

 

[mwayne85]

Now if I could just walk into my local target and get the rMini that would be awesome. Got a $200 iPad trade in gift card burning a hole in my pocket.

Same here!

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

Is that why they aren't sold out yet? I thought they had been selling in-store since launch. I really haven't seen any indication of a supply shortage yet. They have been widely available for quite some time now.

 

[noiseordinance]

Yellow screen and ghosting? It sounds like you're not talking about color accuracy at all, but rather manufacturing defects that are well within limits of the 1 year warranty.

I've got a friend who was complaining to me about how terrible the battery is on his iPhone 5. He's even got a Mophie and it only lasts a couple hours or so without even being used so he has to constantly charge it all day every day. Somehow, it never dawned on him to just walk into an Apple store to get it checked out.

If you've got a lemon, go get it replaced; Apple is pretty good about that sort of thing.

I'm talking about color accuracy, yellow screening, ghosting... An inferior screen in general. I'm sure it's a decent upgrade over the first mini in terms if processor and higher resolution, but I'll wait until they go with a better screen manufacturer rather than try my luck with ghosting. My first rmbp had extreme ghosting and the apple geniuses pretended like they couldn't see it. Took three trips and two different stores to get it replaced. You know the default galaxy wallpaper in lion / ml? I had stars everywhere on my screen when surfing the net, playing games, etc. I won't go down that road again.

 

[bpcookson]

This. Had mine since launch day and the size feels so much better than the 3rd gen ipad it replaced. And I've watched video, surfed the web, read via Kindle and played music (including checking out full screen carefully curated album art via the music and Sonos apps) and like Shirsch999 I've never once had cause to consider the colour ering in any way deficient. I may have got lucky with my particular device but this ipad lacks for nothing in my book.

Me too! Isn't it crazy when you go and pick up the iPad 3, how huge and heavy it feels? We call it the clunker.

 

[nathanpdx]

iPad Mini Retina model I bought online

I ordered a 16GB cellular model just after midnight on the first day it was available (Nov 12) and it shipped a week later (Nov 19). It was scheduled to arrive at my door step just three days after it shipped but a UPS exception occurred twice and now they want six days to ship it.

The UPS tracking shows it took a really long wacky route: Shenzhen, China > Hong Kong > Dubai, UAE > Louisville, Kentucky >> Portland, Oregon. It looks like it went around the globe in the wrong direction or zig zagged for a significant portion of its journey and by air which costs about 45 times more than sea freight per ton-mile. I'd like to know why it's taking the long wacky route when air cargo is so expensive.

 

[pocket3d]

Too much power drain or too expensive for a Samsung screen of that size and resolution. That is why they went with IGZO which is proving to have less than stellar performance. Looks like its a wait for next years model to see all the screen problems ironed out.

But the mini doesn't use an IGZO-backed display, it's amorphous silicon. That's the problem. IGZO would allow the color gamut problem to be solved.

Raymond Soneira has confused a lot of people with his inept report writing.

 

[rGiskard]

But the mini doesn't use an IGZO-backed display, it's amorphous silicon. That's the problem. IGZO would allow the color gamut problem to be solved.

Raymond Soneira has confused a lot of people with his inept report writing.

IGZO has little to do with color gamut, it's just the type of semiconductor used for the thin film transistors. An IGZO display could be made with sub-sRGB gamut or with 100% Adobe RGB gamut, same as an aSi display.

 

[everything-i]

But the mini doesn't use an IGZO-backed display, it's amorphous silicon. That's the problem. IGZO would allow the color gamut problem to be solved.

Raymond Soneira has confused a lot of people with his inept report writing.

Thanks for the info, based on reading misleading reports I had assumed it was IGZO which I did find strange because I had seen other IGZO displays which looked really good.