all I want is a mini pro. small phone with the best cameras. please. one day. 🥺
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iPhone Mini Fans: What to Look Out for When the iPhone 14 Models Launch
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i like the form factor of my 12 mini. a mini pro might be nice.
but the worst part of the mini has been battery life. itʻs atrocious. i cannot get through. work day on a single charge...never mind doing stuff with it on vacation, etc.
while moving up in size to a 14 pro will be painful, the battery life will make up for it.
but the worst part of the mini has been battery life. itʻs atrocious. i cannot get through. work day on a single charge...never mind doing stuff with it on vacation, etc.
while moving up in size to a 14 pro will be painful, the battery life will make up for it.
Apple will definitely continue to offer the 13 Mini at at least $100 cheaper than the regular 14.
And from all the rumors, there isn’t going to be much differences between the 13 and 14 anyway.
And from all the rumors, there isn’t going to be much differences between the 13 and 14 anyway.
Get a 13 mini. The battery life is night and day between it and the 12 mini.
I remember buying the first iPhone. It was around $7-800 in 2014? No financing and no insurance was offered either.
Apple won’t be getting my money this year. The 13 mini is perfect. Have one since launch sept 2021 and battery is still 100%. I have the 13 pro as well and it’s just too heavy, even though it’s a great device in itself. I use the mini as my daily driver.
My launch day 13 mini was 100% battery health until yesterday when it dropped to 97%, which is still excellent after almost a year.
But that’s not an ad that was the launch.
Big difference between unfortunately which I’m saddened by. Especially cause the 12/13 mini has a much higher ASP profit per unit than both the iPhone SE 2/3.
Lol your clients cannot use the 12 mini for work calls, really? Tell your clients to stop the “jibba-jabba” (Mr T voice) and only talk business and be efficient! Stop wasting time trying so many sales tactics. It’ll work for calls. There is alway MagSafe battery add on when needed best for when not on calls. Reduce screen brightness when not absolutely needed. Start using profiles like sleep/work and custom profiles etc.
Consider trade in deals or carrier subsidies but also isn’t Black Friday coming up as well? By then Apple will be fully trying to clear retail store stock of 13 mini.
The vast majority of the Mini-related speculation seems to center around whether the 13 Mini will stay in the lineup when the iPhone 14 models arrive. But, this has always felt like a slam dunk to me given that they kept the 12 Mini around last year (which was a subject that garnered a fair bit of debate before it was finally confirmed).
Meanwhile there is very little discussion about whether the 12 Mini will stay. I’m trying to understand why. Sure, it might be dropped, but I think most will acknowledge that the 11 is all but certain to be. So if not the iPhone 12 Mini, what will slide into the $499 slot vacated by said iPhone 11 aging out of the lineup?
It seems pretty unlikely that the standard 12 will see its price reduced from $699 today to $499 after the seventh. So that probably won’t be the one taking over. Maybe the prevailing hunch is that it goes $549, and there is no longer a $499 phone in the lineup? Or something else? I am curious what the theories are.
Admittedly the iPhone 12 Mini at $499 would likely be the death knell for the SE 2022 at just $70 more, with the only significant drawback on paper being the one-generation-older processor (well, for those that don’t hate FaceID, but that ship will sail into the sunset once the current SE is gone anyway). It could be that that fact provides Apple enough reason on its own to avoid such a move. Certainly the SE benefits from much higher margins if the Mini were to hit that selling price (and might even have higher margins at 12 Mini’s current $599 price).
Meanwhile there is very little discussion about whether the 12 Mini will stay. I’m trying to understand why. Sure, it might be dropped, but I think most will acknowledge that the 11 is all but certain to be. So if not the iPhone 12 Mini, what will slide into the $499 slot vacated by said iPhone 11 aging out of the lineup?
It seems pretty unlikely that the standard 12 will see its price reduced from $699 today to $499 after the seventh. So that probably won’t be the one taking over. Maybe the prevailing hunch is that it goes $549, and there is no longer a $499 phone in the lineup? Or something else? I am curious what the theories are.
Admittedly the iPhone 12 Mini at $499 would likely be the death knell for the SE 2022 at just $70 more, with the only significant drawback on paper being the one-generation-older processor (well, for those that don’t hate FaceID, but that ship will sail into the sunset once the current SE is gone anyway). It could be that that fact provides Apple enough reason on its own to avoid such a move. Certainly the SE benefits from much higher margins if the Mini were to hit that selling price (and might even have higher margins at 12 Mini’s current $599 price).
What are the odds that the iPhone 12 mini gets discontinued (no longer sold on Apple's site) when the iPhone 14 launches? I don't want a refurb, but I want a price drop. Feels like quite the gamble!
It really is amazing how fast the hype around the Mini died off.
Quite possible that Apple continues to offer 13 mini for at least one more year.
12 mini will stay for another year. If the 12 mini is going to be discontinued this year, then the iPhone 11 should've been discontinued since last year.
The iPhone Mini gets lost in the fall big-phone hype. In my opinion, the Mini should be released alongside the SE in the Spring.
These wishes for a “mini pro” are not helping the mini to survive. Too much wishful thinking is killing a solid product.
Sony in the past and currently Asus are THE only comoanies other than Apple to come close to packing real power into a small phone form factor.
The cpu in the iPhone is THE exact same chip in as the Pro and the only thing throttling that occurs is due to extended high end processor cycles. This in turn puts pressure on the primary fault of the mini or any smartphone small form factor, battery capacity!
Again, if you just want a smaller phone, the 13 Mini or 14 Mini are physically smaller than the SE 2020 and have larger screens.
Sure, that's never been in dispute. The whole point of this piece was what to buy if there is no more Mini. I guess we can all agree that it you want a Mini, and they sell a Mini, you should buy a Mini.
Found it... sort'a-kind'a. (Closest you're likely to ever get to it, anyway.)
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Outta curiosity, I went thru and priced out a 13 mini the other day, including trading in my 12 mini. Basically, using their trade-in and two year financing, if I did it now, I would just continue to pay $29 a month for the upgrade to the 13 mini.
So, I too, will be waiting until the 14 is released to see if I an snag a 13 mini. If they drop it $100, the savings would be about $5 per month.
I really like the iPhone 13 mini, hopefully, they continue to improve on the design internally and on battery life / heat dampening.