The reason for the jelly scrolling is that the screen is built to refresh across the narrow dimension but you are scrolling along the long dimension. that makes the screen updates slower and less smooth.
Ummm you know from a reliable second source Apple has directed resources or just stating as fact what is really a rumor?
I keep seeing this repeated over and over and I wonder if it’s published statistics somewhere or if the people even use one or just say what they guess? If you treat it like a big phone. Maybe. But I almost never use portrait mode with mine. The only time I reliably use it is reading books, and for that case I read down the page then flip it. Scrolling just isn’t a problem for me. Anecdotal sure, ymmv, but I wish Macrumors would have a toggle button so you could identify who owns the device they are commenting on or not.
I think that Apple has begun moving towards marketing iPads as devices mainly used in landscape orientation. The 10th gen iPad being another example with its webcam placement.
It is normal. According to the rumor the effect will still be there, just that it will affect landscape rather than portrait orientation.
Amazing how android manufacturers can put in 120hz screens 3+ years ago in inexpensive phones, but Apple can’t do it for less than a $400 up-charge.
To me, A16 would mean more RAM, which is nice tbh. Now we need 128GB as base model ffs
I owned a series of iPad minis starting with the first, non-retina one, but eventually traded in for an iPad Pro. It was just getting a little hard to see doing web browsing on the mini. Not undoable, just not as comfortable. i almost always used the mini in portrait. The iPad Pro is almost always in landscape orientation.
Both likely although based on the rumor the jelly scroll will just transfer from portrait to landscape.
Unlikely as Apple uses screen brightness as one thing to distinguish between Pro and non-Pro. Therefore I don't think that's happening unless they also increase the brightness on the Pro models.
Since iPad mini 6 already was an entire redesign, I would not expect anything more than a spec bump. Certainly nothing that would change the case or display sizes.
Hopefully as 64 GB is just a joke in 2023. On the other hand it already has been a joke when the mini 6 was released in 2021 as they just increased the base storage on the iPhones to 128 GB but skipped that on the non-Pro iPads. So they might as well stay with 64 GB base storage to force more people to buy the more expensive 256 GB version.
Probably but personally I don't care about the cameras on an iPad as long as they suffice for scanning QR codes. I have an iPhone for taking pictures while on the go.
I'd love to see this happen but think Apple won't do it.
Pretty sure that's a safe bet.
Yeah those features all seem unlikely. Especially OLED will be some more years as not even the Pro models have it yet.
You do know that the current mini 6 already has USB 3 with 5 Gibt/s?
I also think that won't happen, at least not in the way it's done on iPhones. Maybe the Mac version at some point but I'd guess we would see that on some Pro model first.
It could be they do the same thing with the A17 Pro, if they are really having quality issues on that chip for the iPhone.
Jelly scrolling absolutely can occur on OLED. It’s not a property of any specific display technology, but rather how nearly all display technologies are refreshed. It doesn’t update all at once, but rather starts at one corner, produces a line, goes to the next line, and repeats this, until it reaches the bottom. Because of this, there will always be some distortion if the underlying image changes mid refresh cycle. It’s particularly noticeable on the iPad mini in portrait mode is because the refresh cycle on the panel is actually optimized for landscape. In landscape, it would be going from top to bottom (or bottom to top, depending on how you orient your iPad), but in portrait it’s going side to side. This creates the so-called jelly scroll effect. Flipping the orientation of the refresh would eliminate the jelly scroll in portrait, though though it would then occur in landscape. The best way to mitigate the problem would be to increase the refresh rate of the display.
