iPad Mini : My Personal Review and Unboxing

After Using my Apple's iPad Mini for almost 10 days now I am quite ready to given My Unboxing and Personal Review on iPad Mini.


Configurations :

Model : iPad Mini WiFi
Memory : 16 GB
RAM : 512
CPU : Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9
Camera : 5 MP
Price : Rs 21900

Till now i have been using Nokia, Blackberry and Android Products. This is my 1st apple product, so it took quite some time to understand the OS. In Nokia, Blackberry and Android, I never felt to refer any manual but in case of iPad Mini, i had to take help of online manuals to learn syncing of Audio/Video and applications.

Before I go further, here are some of the Pics of Unboxing of mine Apple's iPad Mini.

iPad Mini Box Packing










Aircase to keep my iPad safe and secure.





iPad Mini Unboxed





iPad Mini User Manual and Data Cable





iPad Mini Charger and Data Cable





iPad Mini Manual and Apple Stickers





AirCase Unboxed








And Here is complete power packed my iPad Mini





My Personal brief Review of iPad Mini

Hardware : Very classy, shiny and quite attractive. I saw many tablets before purchasing iPad Mini and i must say iPad Mini design and built is best among all including Samsung Tablets.

Display : Its same like any iPhone and being 7.9" screen , its handy as well as large enough to surf, play games and do other online works.

Operating System : Immediately after I connected iPad Mini to iTunes, it got updated to iOS 6.0.2. Its undoubtedly fast and smooth than Android.

App Store : App Store is full of Apps and Games but most the games which I have for free on Android are chargable. Some of the Apps which are specially built for iPad are awesome like Facebook, Accuweather, Tapatalk HD, Flipboard. (Will post their screens later on.)

Battery : As claimed by Apple, it is giving 8-9 hours of battery Backup while playing games or surfing net on Wifi.

So, I feel that I made a good choice by purchasing iPad Mini over Samsung Galaxy Tab 2


Thanks for Reading this. If you guys like this, I will post more 😀

 

[IndianMascot]

Thanks for some nice suggestions. Sygic is too costly to be afforded. What about Google maps.

 

[Sushubh]

you have the cellular version?

 

[manu1991]

Sygic wouldn't be useful for you anyways since this doesn't have GPS.

 

[Sushubh]

from what i understand google maps on ios do not yet have offline maps capabilities. i could be wrong though. Nokia here is of course another option. this is assuming that the ipad mini has gps.

 

[IndianMascot]

😀 yes it gt A-gps. And Nokia maps available for Apple?

 

[IndianMascot]

you have the cellular version?

Nope 🙁 I forget that 😛 Google map is useless for my ipad.

 

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[Sushubh]

Nokia Here

if you have gps on your ipad, you always have the option of using your phone as a wifi hotspot on the move.

 

[manu1991]

😀 yes it gt A-gps.

And Nokia maps available for Apple?
Nope. No A-GPS.

Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi - Full phone specifications
http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_ipad_mini_wi_fi_+_cellular-5061.php

 

[IndianMascot]

As i have already used and loved Nokia maps, this seems to be quite useful to me.

 

[IndianMascot]

Nope. No A-GPS.

Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi - Full phone specifications
http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_ipad_mini_wi_fi_+_cellular-5061.php

Check again bro. It's there in the link shared by you 🙂

 

[manu1991]

I have pasted two links, which out of those two models do you have?

 

[IndianMascot]

In Tapatalk I can see only one link. But anyways I gt ipad mini Wifi only and it have gps bro. I would have posted the screen but presently it out of town with my wife. 😀

 

[manu1991]

Here you go:
Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi vs. Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular - GSMArena.com

left is wifi only, right is wifi+4g



I am 100% sure that the non cellular version of any iPad does NOT have GPS.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/25/ipad_mini_wifi_no_gps/

Wi-Fi-only iPads have never featured GPS, but the lack of satellite-navigation tech in the new Mini fondleslab's non-cellular version has provoked a mild backlash: and rightly so, though not many people understand why.

The new gizmos do have a "digital compass", a magnetometer which is aware of the direction the slab is being pointed but not it's location. The device guesses where it is by sniffing for nearby WiFi base stations and checking their position against Apple's database of unique device IDs.

It's not at all accurate - the database has only a sketchy notion where the base stations are, and the slab has very little idea where it is in relation to them. If there aren't any Wi-Fi boxes about, it won't work at all. But because Wi-Fi signals are short-ranging, the uncertainties aren't too large and it'll do for working out the route from the Starbucks to the beret shop.

If like most people you only ever use "free" online mapping services such as Google Maps or Apple Maps, there's not much point in a Wi-Fi-only iPad having GPS. It would know where it was thanks to the generosity of the US Defense Department* even if it didn't have a Wi-Fi signal, but it couldn't pinpoint itself on an online mapping service because it couldn't get online.

 

[Amjath]

WiFi version doesn't have GPS.No sense to have GPS on WiFi tablet

 

[manu1991]

^^ Why not? I have GPS on my wifi only Nexus 7 and I can use Sygic for offline turn by turn navigation.