Apple iPad mini 3rd Gen (7.9-inch, Late 2014)

performance, portability, design, price, screen

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96% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

performance, size, portability, usability, price

reliability

95% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

performance, portability, price, design, screen

reliability

92% of the reviews on Amazon.ca give this product a positive rating.

Metal unibody, 7.5mm slim, 331g of weight ; Optional LTE connectivity (Cat. 4, 150Mbps downlink) ; 7.9" 1,536 x 2,048 LED-backlit IPS LCD with 324 ppi pixel density ; Apple iOS 8 ; Dual-core 1.3 GHz Apple A7 chipset, M7 motion co-processor, PowerVR...

No microSD slot ; Pricey memory upgrades, 32GB version should have been standard ; No NFC connectivity, Apple Pay has limited functionality ; Apple iOS 8 still relies on iTunes for music and file transfers

On its own, the Apple iPad mini 3 is great all-round tablet. It has everything a slate of its caliber should offer - a minimalistic design, an amazing attention to detail, an excellent display. All that backed by the fluid iOS 8 and the amazing App...

If you’ve made it this far, you’ve probably noticed that there’s almost no incentive to buy the iPad Mini 3. In fact, it’s a much better deal to buy the second-generation Mini instead, since Apple cut its price by $100. You can get an iPad Mini 2 with...

iPad app ecosystem ; Strong battery life ; Beautiful hardware

Last year's screen ; Last year's processor ; Last year's camera

Beautifully built. Fast. Sharp screen. Excellent app options.

Pricey. Few reasons to buy over the less-expensive, still-available iPad mini 2.

Conclusions The Apple iPad mini 3 is a superb small-screen tablet, but the modest upgrades, combined with a healthy discount for last year's nearly identical model, make it difficult to recommend wholeheartedly. The mini 2 is 25 percent less expensive...

Gorgeous 2048 x 1536 pixel display. 10-plus hour battery life will more than serve your cross-country plane flight, or close to a week of casual daily use. A7 processor (with M7 co-processor) offers more power than you may ever need on a 7-inch tablet....

Pricey---similar sized and specced tablets go for closer to $200. Stereo speakers both located on one end of the device. Would be nice if it had better networking capabilities

Excellent app selection; Classy design; Long battery life ; Slower performance than competitors; Soft speakers; Mediocre cameras ; The iPad mini 3 adds Touch ID and a gold color option to Apple's already great small tablet.

Slower performance than competitors; Soft speakers; Mediocre cameras ; The iPad mini 3 adds Touch ID and a gold color option to Apple's already great small tablet.

The iPad mini 3 adds Touch ID and a gold color option to Apple's already great small tablet.

High-resolution display, Excellent build quality, Good camera under daylight, Precise touchscreen, Free office suite, Very good GPS, Fast processor, Fast graphics unit, Low temperature development, Decent speakers

Hardly any new features, Sometimes very small controls, Depending on the configuration very high price, No 802.11ac WLAN, WLAN connection sometimes with signal issues, Proprietary connector, Only LTE Cat. 3

Mini update is really the correct term here: Except for the fingerprint reader and a new color for the case, the third generation of the iPad Mini does not offer any new features or components. iOS 8.1 can also be installed on older devices via update...

The value in upgrading to the iPad mini 2 from the original was clear; the improvements in stepping up to the iPad mini 3 from its predecessor are more granular. That’s not so much a critique of the new model as it is recognition that the iPad mini 2...