The next iPad mini will get the display upgrade it sorely needs

The iPad mini (2024) has only conscionable arrived connected nan market, but news astir nan adjacent type is already starting to leak. The latest nugget is bully news for everyone isolated from possibly those who conscionable bought nan newest model. According to show master Ross Young, Apple’s adjacent iPad mini will characteristic an OLED display. Like erstwhile versions, nan existent iPad mini has an 8.3-inch LCD.

An OLED display, which is tech that is already disposable connected nan iPad Pro (2024) and newer iPhones, offers accrued brightness, deeper blacks, and amended powerfulness ratio than LCD.

Moving to OLED connected iPad mini models is almost surely Apple’s semipermanent plan. However, it mightiness beryllium a spot of a hold until we spot nan iPad mini lineup updated again. Apple’s smallest tablet utilized to beryllium updated annually, akin to astir different iPad models. However, aft nan merchandise of nan 2015 version, updates became little frequent. A caller exemplary didn’t look aft that exemplary until 2019, followed by different merchandise successful 2021. The iPad mini (2024) was introduced three years aft nan erstwhile version. This doesn’t needfully mean Apple will hold different 3 years earlier it updates nan merchandise again, though it’s wholly imaginable nan institution will hold astatine slightest that long.

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The iPad Air (2024) besides features LCD alternatively of OLED. Apple will apt update nan adjacent iPad Air to an OLED show earlier updating nan iPad mini. Alternatively, Apple mightiness motorboat OLED versions of some tablets simultaneously successful 2025 aliases 2026, though nan caller merchandise of a 2024 refresh makes a caller iPad mini adjacent twelvemonth consciousness unlikely. The 10th-generation iPad besides includes LCD, not OLED, though nan basal iPad will apt beryllium nan past iPad to get OLED show tech.

The initial reviews of nan iPad mini (2024) person been mixed. On nan 1 hand, Digital Trends and different sources person praised nan tablet for its caller A17 Pro chip, which adds Apple Intelligence compatibility and improved retention options. On nan different hand, nan tablet retains galore of nan exact specifications of nan erstwhile model, which is disappointing fixed nan agelong spread betwixt releases.