Deals: Apple's iPad Mini 6 Available From $399 on Amazon With $100 Discounts on Multiple Models

[MacRumors]

Today on Amazon you can get $100 off nearly every model of the iPad mini 6, starting at $399.00 for the 64GB Wi-Fi model, down from $499.00. This is available in all four colors, and it's the first time we've seen the sale since Prime Early Access earlier in the month.

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The iPad mini is shipped and sold directly from Amazon, with the fastest delivery estimated to arrive on October 28, and free delivery estimated for October 31 for most colors. As of writing, only Amazon is offering $100 off the iPad mini.

64GB Wi-Fi iPad mini 6 for $399.00 ($100 OFF)​

Not only the 64GB Wi-Fi model is on sale, as you can also get the 256GB Wi-Fi iPad mini for $549.00, down from $649.00. Additionally, the 64GB Cellular model is available for $549.00 and the 256GB Cellular model is on sale for $699.00, but only in one color.

For even more iPad deals, head to our full Best Deals guide for iPad. In that guide we track the best discounts online for iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro.

Article Link: Deals: Apple's iPad Mini 6 Available From $399 on Amazon With $100 Discounts on Multiple Models

 

[bwillwall]

And it's still too expensive! I really want a new mini but I'm not spending $400 plus a case and pencil 2 for a toy I honestly don't need.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Release an update with a better screen please Apple!

 

[crawfish963]

I love my Mini. Only two complaints are battery life isn't phenomenal and it badly needs a 120hz display.

 

[Black.Infinity]

I want base iPad in mini form for reading and video watching in bed.

 

[Kar98]

I want base iPad in mini form for reading and video watching in bed.

iPad mini 5 does the trick.

 

[WLS]

Only took 24 hours for them to notice the mini deal. I ordered one yesterday morning. I've been weighing a refurbed mini 5 versus a deal on a mini 6. The $399 mini 6 beats a refurbed $340 mini 5 for value.

 

[bwillwall]

iPad mini 5 does the trick.

For 400-500 dollars? That's not base, that's the same price as the original iPad when there was only ONE option. This is the mini and meant to be a cheaper one under the Air. Who wants to pay extra for a smaller screen?

Edit, just realized the new one is a 6 so I see your point, but the 5 design is significantly older for not a lot less money.

 

[Student of Life]

Tempted to get one but i wonder if they might be cheaper this Black Friday?

 

[startergo]

Hmmm,
Just compared the bestbuy

With Applecare+ 2 years and Apple Store in Amazon:

Minimal difference as the AC+ in bestbuy is 69$.

Edit: BestBuy Price matched it.

 

[WLS]

Maybe but this looks like an early black friday amazon deal so no reason to wait.

 

[mansplains]

Would anyone else be interested in full phone support for iPad mini? iPhones have increased in size thankfully, but not quite as phablet as I'd personally prefer... I'd scoop up an iPad mini at more than the current price for this capability, 120Hz would be very welcome.

 

[sorgo †]

Kinda tempting but I think I’ll hold off until the mini 7. I really hate jelly scroll (my mini 4 had it pretty bad)

 

[mcdull]

A no-brainer only if this has a ProMotion display.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Kinda tempting but I think I’ll hold off until the mini 7. I really hate jelly scroll (my mini 4 had it pretty bad)

Same
I've seen some ridiculously good preowned deals on Mini 6's around me in the last 4-6 weeks.
It's not a price thing for me -- I just personally can't stand that Jelly

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Would anyone else be interested in full phone support for iPad mini? iPhones have increased in size thankfully, but not quite as phablet as I'd personally prefer... I'd scoop up an iPad mini at more than the current price for this capability, 120Hz would be very welcome.

I already use iPad mini with buds to fully cover phone + texting needs too. See VOIP apps like Talkatone, Google Voice or Comcast Voice if you happen to use that service at home. I've been doing this since iPad Mini 2 and find it ideal for me. Nobody on the other end can tell I'm not using a typical cell phone. Texting works just fine too.

Test it yourself by downloading a voip app for free. Many will give you at least a temporary number for free. Text to that temp number and vice versa to experience texting. If you go this way and text with Apple people, just use Messages as you do now. Call a friend with it and have a friend call you back at the temp number. That voip app will work the same when run on an iPad (or Mac too)... just with bonus screen RE.

I carry around one device instead of two and a bigger screen generally makes every other app experience better IMO.

Bonus: iPad Mini 5G best "plan" is prepaid $10 for 5 months or 5GB. Since I mostly use free wifi, I don't need cellular that much. But when I do need it, that "plan" costs only $25 for a YEARs worth of 5G service. So I ride Mini through 4-6 generations of iPhone upgrades and pay much less for 5G service too.

Bonus #2: if you go Google Voice, look up a device called Obihai... which can basically make the home phones work with the same GV VOIP number. In other words, your cell phone and home phones can share the same number if you like. Faxing and alarm system work with that too. So anyone with landline service (still typical for alarm systems) can cut that bill to ZERO and use those phones for calls at home.

Anyone with any doubts (and/or influenced by closet salespeople wanting to help Apple maximize iPhone unit sales who put down this concept), just try it for free with whatever you have now. Download free voip app, use a free voip app number for testing, and simulate it yourself. You'll quickly discover that telephony is just an app... much like making an iDevice stand in for a flash light or tape measure, etc.

Your computer can stand in as a mobile phone too, also by using the right voip app and buds. Telephony is just an app. Sometimes, rather than using my Mini or home phones, I make or take calls and/or text and receive texts on my Macs.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

I am waiting for the mini 7 which likely won't come until at least next Fall

 

[mansplains]

Bonus: iPad Mini 5G best "plan" is prepaid $10 for 5 months or 5GB. Since I mostly use free wifi, I don't need cellular that much. But when I do need it, that "plan" costs only $25 for a YEARs worth of 5G service. So I ride Mini through 4-6 generations of iPhone upgrades and pay much less for 5G service too.

I'm very familiar with VOIP as a user for several years. The problem is what I've included from your post, where do you find this data plan? Every plan I see for iPads either requires a traditional phone line with the carrier or costs an absurd amount. I also average 40GB of data per month so the 5GB you outline wouldn't work for me, at least without adjusting.

VOIP works very well, but it'd be nice to just have regular phone capability as an option and not need the extra hoops in finding service. Some areas I'm in have excellent calling coverage with abysmal data coverage.

I have a unifi dream maching se and Ubiquiti pushes their VOIP for phone systems, so that's an option I could look at and wouldn't need yet another account for. I've used google voice for masking my number when I can't enter all zeros on some account registration.

Finally, do you have an Apple Watch? You can't pair with an iPad and there's no health app either. So I could have an iPhone SE that stays at home and use Watch with iPad, but I can't have a cellular line on the watch if I want to.

 

[840quadra]

A year later still amazed by the capability of the mini 6. Batch processes RAW photos nearly as fast as my 11" iPad pro , & Usb-c speeds are good for talking directly to my cameras. Its my main photo / video editing device out in the field now.

 

[BSoares]

What I want to see is a $599 deal on the 2021 11" Pro, that's what I'm waiting for after missing the deal from Walmart.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I'm very familiar with VOIP as a user for several years. The problem is what I've included from your post, where do you find this data plan? Every plan I see for iPads either requires a traditional phone line with the carrier or costs an absurd amount. I also average 40GB of data per month so the 5GB you outline wouldn't work for me, at least without adjusting.

VOIP works very well, but it'd be nice to just have regular phone capability as an option and not need the extra hoops in finding service. Some areas I'm in have excellent calling coverage with abysmal data coverage.

I have a unifi dream maching se and Ubiquiti pushes their VOIP for phone systems, so that's an option I could look at and wouldn't need yet another account for. I've used google voice for masking my number when I can't enter all zeros on some account registration.

Finally, do you have an Apple Watch? You can't pair with an iPad and there's no health app either. So I could have an iPhone SE that stays at home and use Watch with iPad, but I can't have a cellular line on the watch if I want to.

T-Mobile prepaid $10 for 5 months or 5GB. Purchased through iPad options in the stock cell setup app.

As to your 40GB/month average, that's far too much for any plan that is not unlimited... and priced that way. I manage my higher demand data consumption by eating most of it in free wifi zones at work or home. Maybe timing WHEN you presumably watch so much video would get you down to data sipping levels?

5G is data. Voice service can’t be better than data service because it’s the same bandwidth. I suspect your problem making you perceive that is that you eat so much data that your data is getting throttled down to 3G or whatever. Shift the data hog stuff to wifi as much as possible and I bet you find your cell data quality much improves.

No, I don't have Apple Watch- I prefer traditional. Almost all I can see/use on AW works better on the bigger screen with me.

Obviously anything that requires an iPhone won’t work with this approach. But that’s part of the bargain in spending so much less. This is NOT for everyone. But for those mostly looking for much lower cost phone & texting, iPads can easily step in to cover those functions... and iPads with cellular can make that work anywhere one can get a cell signal just as well as phones.

 

[CarAnalogy]

A no-brainer only if this has a ProMotion display.

Never buying another low refresh rate display. Now that I have ProMotion on a Mac, iPad, and iPhone, every other display looks broken. iPad Mini with ProMotion might be the perfect iPad.

 

[Karma*Police]

I had one of these. Never used it much. Definitely for niche applications as it sits awkwardly between a large smartphone and full size tablet.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Here's one of those great contrasts by us consumers looking at the very same product...


I have one of these. Use it every day. It's goldilocks size between too-small smartphone screens and too-big tablet screens makes it ideal for pretty much all iOS applications I use.


Funny how different impressions can be. But that's also why a good variety of products is good for us all. Having choices is better than Apple deciding to roll out single choices for all of us. If confused by this part, see several recent threads longing for the "good old days" where there was as little as single choices of phone, tablet, Macs.

 

[Kar98]

For 400-500 dollars? That's not base, that's the same price as the original iPad when there was only ONE option. This is the mini and meant to be a cheaper one under the Air. Who wants to pay extra for a smaller screen?

Edit, just realized the new one is a 6 so I see your point, but the 5 design is significantly older for not a lot less money.

Yes, it's older, but also a lot cheaper, and for what I'm using it, it's perfectly sufficient. Which is "read books on the crapper, and sometimes watch video in the bed on weekend mornings"