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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by MichaelZuo »

spython wrote: post #188
metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

I think it's so that the fingers holding the device don't obstruct the view/ don't get counted as touch event.

I’d be surprised if thumb rejection/palm rejection isn’t close to perfect by iPadOS 18.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by lucb1e »

meroes wrote: post #15
tommica wrote: post #6

Looks really nice, wish could afford it, but Apple products are so expensive... Commodity products for premium price

Many of these devices aren’t actually fungible commodities though.I tried to buy a phone in the $200 range and Android phones were so much worse than used iPhones. I they would drop calls and freeze on the dial pad during long calls where I was on hold. Tried two different models and had the same issues. I could have tried a used $200 Android but I was not wanting to try for a third Android. All I wanted/needed was t…

> All I wanted/needed was to make important calls.

Can I recommend you a 40€ phone? They've been making models that can do calls for a while now and they needn't cost as much as an Apple-branded device to do just that

> they would drop calls and freeze on the dial pad during long calls

Never heard that happen to anyone with any phone model. If you've ruled out some software-specific issue like a call recorder you've installed or so, that sounds borderline implausible. Then again, given the number of issues I experience with software (of any kind)...

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by jdswain »

I got an 8" Android tablet instead of an iPad mini. What I wanted, was to have something really compact that I could use emacs on, mainly for org-roam, notes and writing in general, not for writing code. It works well with termux, I don't think there is a good way to have a local version of emacs on iOS.

The keyboard is the most important part really (although I did want a good screen too). I'm on my second keyboard, they are only about $30 each, which is better than iPad prices. The first one wasn't so convenient to unfold quickly, the new one is working really well.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by rogerkirkness »

mulderc wrote: post #159
ChuckMcM wrote: post #108

In many ways (no pun intended :-)) I would relate to having an iPad mini and a much much dumber phone which was just text/chat and voice. I have gotten there because I'm constantly in this weird tension between wanting a bigger screen on my phone because the app I'm using and wanting a smaller phone so that it is easier to pocket and carry around. A friend of mine did the folding screen phone thing and that has its a…

I am moving away from my phone to just using my Apple Watch/AirPods then pulling out the mini when I need something it can't cover.

Apparently Steve's posthumous roadmap focused on the idea that personal computers get 'smaller and closer to you' as time goes on. So the idea that an Apple Watch and AirPods could be all you need when travelling, etc. follows that premise.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by vjulian »

dialup_sounds wrote: post #142
vjulian wrote: post #113

I have an older (but not old) Mini, and I find it almost unusable, as screen elements don’t scale up. For example, Safari browser buttons are stupidly small. Is that still an issue with the Mini?

The mini display is 326 PPI vs 264 PPI for larger iPads, but the same scale factor so things will always be smaller. (iPhones with even higher PPI use a 3x scale.) That said, you can embiggen things like Safari browser buttons under Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Larger Text.

Thank you. Larger text does just that and in some cases makes buttons even more difficult to use. My eyes are fine, and my fingers are big…unfortunately rendering the Mini mainly useless for me.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by gxs »

xattt wrote: post #189
ChuckMcM wrote: post #108

In many ways (no pun intended :-)) I would relate to having an iPad mini and a much much dumber phone which was just text/chat and voice. I have gotten there because I'm constantly in this weird tension between wanting a bigger screen on my phone because the app I'm using and wanting a smaller phone so that it is easier to pocket and carry around. A friend of mine did the folding screen phone thing and that has its a…

Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

You can probably get fairly close to do this by using an apple watch with a sim card

I used to leave the house with just my watch and it was great - I could read and send text messages, email, even take calls on my watch and have everything synced up to my phone at home. You can even download music to it and pair it to your airpods.

The missing piece here is just having a dumb phone - somehow I think that with some ingenuity you might be able to something that serves 80% of your needs here or something like that.

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Post by eightysixfour »

thorncorona wrote: post #198
xattt wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

What keeps them addicted to their watch? I've never found a compelling use case where I'd willingly buy another Apple watch.

Keeps them addicted to their phone by not allowing them to just go watch only.

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Post by [deleted] »

0x38B wrote: post #183
Syonyk wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the modern "dumbphones" (or "feature phones") would do this just fine for you. If you want one that can survive anything life will throw at it, look at the Sonim devices - the XP3+ (flip) or XP5+ (candybar). They're Android Go, have exceptionally good (week and a half, easily) battery life, hotspot just fine, and handle actual use a lot better than the KaiOS toys out there. Maybe 3.x is better, but KaiOS 2.x…

I used a KaiOS device for about 6 months. My expectations weren’t high, but texting and T9 input were a mess: A) I had to manually enter captital I, apostrophe, and ‘m’ every time I wanted to write “I’m”. B) New words (like brand and place names) displace common words in the built-in wordlist - that is, T9 gets worse the more you use it. It was still an OK digital minimalist/detox device - the GMaps web app with voic…

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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by bschwindHN »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #173
giancarlostoro wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.

I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that. You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.

> just because my email takes 150gb

You have a very different email life than me. Is that like, all emails received in your life, or just huge attachments?

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