Ipad Mini replacement options.

[(steven)]

Before I spend the best part of £400 on the latest iPad mini to replace my 6 year old one, is there anything else I should consider? It just looks a bit overkill.

I only use my current one for watching films on the train and the only reason I’m thinking of changing is because it slowed down to such a point, it can barely run the Netflix menu now.

The Huawei MediaPad M3 is about a third of the price and the reviews seem to ding it for not running games at lighting speed and the camera being average, neither of which bother me.

My only concern is that previous experience of cheap android (& Amazon) stuff has been it’s rather short shelf life. No point going for the cheap option, if I end up buying three instead of one.

What are peoples experience with the cheaper tablets?

[romeodelta]

Have you thought about cleaning up your existing iPad?

Delete old apps, factory reset, turn off advanced features, upgrade iOS, maybe replace battery if it’s limiting performance.

No need to splash out if it will still do the job.

[h0b0]

I have an older iPad mini and it is pretty useless now. You can’t upgrade the iOS and a lot of apps will not run. Those that do are painfully slow.

[nikaiyo2]

Have you looked in the refurb store on Apple?

They had 128GB mini 4s for £300 the other day.

[frisbee]

Is a mini usefully bigger than a big phone these days?

[lonny]

nikaiyo2 said:

Have you looked in the refurb store on Apple?

They had 128GB mini 4s for £300 the other day.

There were about 4 years between the 4 and 5 though so 5 is substantially faster. I made the jump and really like the 5 - should last me a few years.

[nikaiyo2]

lonny said:

There were about 4 years between the 4 and 5 though so 5 is substantially faster. I made the jump and really like the 5 - should last me a few years.

Did not know that, thanks for the info

[jodypress]

I'm still using my iPad mini2. Works great for Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Don't use it for anything else really.

[thebraketester]

h0b0 said:

I have an older iPad mini and it is pretty useless now. You can’t upgrade the iOS and a lot of apps will not run. Those that do are painfully slow.

^^^ this. Which is very annoying. I have a mini iPad which is in almost brand new condition and virtually unusable. We would love to use it as a Sonos controller but the app won’t install on the older iOS version.

[BlueMR2]

nikaiyo2 said:

lonny said:

There were about 4 years between the 4 and 5 though so 5 is substantially faster. I made the jump and really like the 5 - should last me a few years.

Did not know that, thanks for the info

The 4 was basically a 3 with a thumb print sensor on, using the A8 processor iirc, the new one used the A12, same as the Ipad air, the iPad runs an A10.

If you haven't ordered one yet, you are happy with a wifi only model in gold, Amazon have the 256GB model at around 17% off.

£453.09 instead of £549.99.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iPad-mini-Wi-Fi-256...