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All iPads What's wrong with the iPad Mini w/ retina display?

Nothing is wrong with my Retina mini screen except 1 dead pixel that is not noticeable except if a screen is all white with nothing on it lol.

I love mine and am very thankful that I even have one since I'm low income
 
Hardware is great. It is by far the best tablet I ever owned. (Nexus 7 original, FHD, surface rt, iPad 1&3, hp Touchpad, and etc.)

Not a bit fan of iOS 7 here. It looks hideous and ugly on iPad.
 
Bluetooth problems

I'm on my second mini-R and both have been unable to maintain a Bluetooth connection with a separate keyboard. It's most likely a software problem, although the problem does not occur on either an iPhone 5 or 5s running the same iOS 7.0.4.

Problem: pair a keyboard, let the iPad mini-R go to sleep. Wake it up. The Bluetooth settings shows the keyboard is still connected, and the iPad does not bring up the onscreen virtual keyboard. However, nothing you do on the keyboard has any effect. No letters, keys, controls, nothing.

The only way to get the keyboard working again is:

1) Forget the keyboard
2) Turn off iPad's Bluetooth
3) Turn iPad's Bluetooth back on
4) Put the keyboard in pair mode
5) Pair with the 4-digit code

This happens with 3 keyboards from 3 different manufacturers (all BT 3.0) but -- note -- does NOT happen with an older Apple Wireless keyboard.

An iPad 1 running iOS 5.1.1 does not have the problem.

Has anyone else tested out their iPad Mini Retina with third party keyboards that work with all their other devices?
 
skillwill said:
I'm actually yet to read anything positive about it
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Clearly you don't read much. It has sold and is still is selling like hotcakes. People love it. There are tons of posts on here about how people love their rMini.

So if you really haven't read anything positive, open your eyes.
 
Unfortunately, mine has a yellow band about 1/2 an inch high from the bottom. This is our 2nd Apple device. Our first was purchased last year, the first mini, and it was perfect. This retina mini right out of the box I saw that yellow band as soon as I turned it on. Mine is week 48 (December build) from Foxccom China. The speakers' volume is also much lower than my 1st mini. It almost looks like there's poor speaker shielding or manufacturing and assembly defect that is the culprit of the yellowing band at the bottom.
 
Investor27 said:
Unfortunately, mine has a yellow band about 1/2 an inch high from the bottom. This is our 2nd Apple device. Our first was purchased last year, the first mini, and it was perfect. This retina mini right out of the box I saw that yellow band as soon as I turned it on. Mine is week 48 (December build) from Foxccom China. The speakers' volume is also much lower than my 1st mini. It almost looks like there's poor speaker shielding or manufacturing and assembly defect that is the culprit of the yellowing band at the bottom.
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My new rMini is also week 48 (December) from Foxconn. My screen is perfect and the speakers are fine. I thought maybe the screen issues were resolved on the later build ones, but it looks like it's still a lottery. I'm sorry you got a bad one.
 
Couldn't be happier with mine and it was one of the first to arrive at an Apple store in Manhattan. The only thing I skimped on was the size: 64GB vs 128GB, but since the family iPad 3 64GB has nearly 30GB free, I felt liked that was a worthwhile trade-off. I haven't noticed all the issues raised on these forums.

Since getting the rMini a month ago, I've read more books, wrote more notes and ideas, recorded more music than I ever did with our iPad 3. For me, the rMini is the most perfect tablet, which is surprising because I always felt that the 9.7" iPad 3 screen was the minimum a tablet should be. Glad to be proven so wrong.
 
I love my retina mini and think it's fantastic. However, I'd speculate that one reason enthusiasm for it may be more muted than before is the introduction of the Ipad Air. While the mini is still lighter and smaller than Apple's main full sized device, it's not as much lighter and smaller as it was before. Also, as they say, familiarity breeds contempt. The form factor of the mini is no longer something new. I do feel people sometimes take things for granted. It's an achievement getting the same form factor as the original mihni with a retina screen and A7 processor; Anandtech predicted it wouldn't be possible within a year of the original mini.
 
skillwill said:
This time last year people were all over these forums with how much they absolutely love their mini - it was the "perfect iPad", in fact people said they loved their iPad Minis so much, it didn't even matter that it had year-old processing technology and a poor resolution display - even at a time when retina-class displays were the expected standard.

Now this year's mini is as powerful as its big brother and has the retina display, but I'm actually yet to read anything positive about it - people are saying they loved their iPad Mini 1's, rushed out to buy this one as it was seemingly all they had ever wanted, and are disappointed with it.

So what is fuelling this disappointment? I find it hard to believe its a slightly rare image retention issue that hardly anyone will ever notice or a slightly faded colour display which, unless pointed out to you and held up next to a display with better colour, wouldn't necessarily be noticeable - and even if these were issues, I can't see they are worse than the ones people were willing to put up with last year - so what's really wrong with it? I haven't got/used one so I can't answer this myself.
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Apple raised the price... Whiners whined harder. rMini is a good device. I appreciate the speed and RAM upgrade from last gen. Screen is good too. I have no issues with the color and have seen no burn in during real world usage. Did not bother with burn in test because if I'm using my iPad rMini for 10 min it won't be to stare at a checkered screen.
 
Mine was perfect. Sadly, I had to return it because I just couldn't live without the 9.7" screen so bought an Air instead. Mine never had a retention issue (which wouldn't have bothered me) and the muted colors were fine by me. I have an OLED display on my phone so anything else is "muted." :D
 
Nothing at all....I grabbed both the 128 GB LTE air as well as the same in the mini. The air stays home, mini goes in my bag. They are both awesome and I am quite happy with them! Go get what you want and try not to get caught up with few nay sayers.

EricE
 
skillwill said:
This time last year people were all over these forums with how much they absolutely love their mini - it was the "perfect iPad", in fact people said they loved their iPad Minis so much, it didn't even matter that it had year-old processing technology and a poor resolution display - even at a time when retina-class displays were the expected standard.

Now this year's mini is as powerful as its big brother and has the retina display, but I'm actually yet to read anything positive about it - people are saying they loved their iPad Mini 1's, rushed out to buy this one as it was seemingly all they had ever wanted, and are disappointed with it.

So what is fuelling this disappointment? I find it hard to believe its a slightly rare image retention issue that hardly anyone will ever notice or a slightly faded colour display which, unless pointed out to you and held up next to a display with better colour, wouldn't necessarily be noticeable - and even if these were issues, I can't see they are worse than the ones people were willing to put up with last year - so what's really wrong with it? I haven't got/used one so I can't answer this myself.
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All the people that are happy with the rmini are busy using them. Mostly the smaller group of individuals that are unhappy with their rmini for whatever reason are the ones on the forums complaining. I've bought to date 5 iPads (two iPad 2s, one iPad 3, iPad mini, and rmini iPad) and have had no problems with any of them. I have also bought two iPhone 3Gs (not 3GS), two iPhone 4s, and two iPhone 5s and haven't had any problems with them at all either.

I think if you are the kind of person that wants to find something wrong with their device, they will. The image retention issue....who here leaves their iPad on the same exact screen for 10+ mins? I am typically doing something on the screen that changes or it powers off after 2 mins of idle to save battery power. Either way, I haven't noticed any issues with my rmini and love it. Performs way better than my first mini which I loved but it struggled due to the slower processor but mostly due to the low RAM.
 
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My rMini screen is great.

But it crashes Safari like a drunk sailor in a destruction derby.

I hope 7.1 is a fix for this. I've tried all the anecdotal fixes. Nada.

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