“The iPad Mini is a terrific little device,” Alistair Dabbs reports for The Register.
“Every time I handed the iPad Mini to someone for the first time, they’d make the same two observations: ‘Oh, it’s really light,’ invariably followed by, ‘it’s really thin,'” Dabbs reports. “The iPad Mini is comfortable to hold in one hand without straining, in much the same way that you’d hold an e-ink Kindle or Kobo. By comparison, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD is almost a third heavier and thicker.”
Dabbs reports, “The reason it works so well, I believe, is that it runs all your iPad and iPad 2 apps right out-of-the-tin, no compatibility issues, no buggering around, no special iPad Mini app updates required. Cynics have dubbed the product ‘a big iPod Touch’ but despite what I wrote earlier it’s much more like a compact iPad 2… Hang on, no, it’s better than an iPad 2: it’s half the weight, cheaper, includes better cameras and is available in models with up to four times the storage… I love this tablet. Apple says: ‘You won’t be able to put it down.’ Bang on.”
Read more in the full review here.
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