I could almost not even let go and my iPad seemed so incredibly clunky and unwieldy at once before.
So I bought it and indeed in the 16GB Wifi + Cellular version (ie incl. UMTS / LTE + GPS) in black.
Of course, knowing that only one can remain (maxi or mini) (Croesus I am now not) then began the test at home and a few mind games.
What can I say ? The large iPad was sold and the small remains.
It's finally the pad, as it should be: Easy to handle and with incredible usability.
By the way you can the device then use it as Navi with at least 7.9 "screen. At the big iPad I would never have come up with this idea and the iPhone for me is often a little too tiny. Not to mention the extremely long battery life of ten hours and more.
It is processed absolutely clean and is felt valent in hand than the previous. And it's light as a feather. It's an iPad with all its possibilities and yet so small.
The snag, the non-Retina Display, that bothers me less than I thought.
Normally always keen on technical perfection, I thought it will never replace my iPad, because nothing goes on retina. Once the retina, retina always.
Error: Here, one can say clearly, convinced the whole package so much so that the display is important but not the only decisive.
The battery can now also be loaded on the computer and is in about 2.5 hours back at 100% state of charge.
For the Internet go I have the Vodafone shop a so-called Ultrasim (Nano-Sim) concerned that somehow my existing contract assigned (programmed?) Was so that I may allowed to use as occasional users cost-neutral the Webvolumen my cell phone contract. Excellent !
Now of course, you read those who say: All is well and good, but I prefer to wait on iPad Mini 2. Just as Apple its new iPad 4 times just released lately after only eight months and many encountered so before the head has , it is indeed safe soon.
Maybe or maybe not, because it may also well be that Apple just wanted to adjust the timing of its release in the iPads so to the future take the extremely important holiday shopping season each year.
This would widerum mean that potentially new iPads may also come before the end of 2013. Whether a Retina display is then already implemented in the form factor, also written in the stars. We all remember the outcry when it was said that the iPad 3 is now thicker and heavier than its predecessor because it just no other way.
But these are all biscuits and while others speculate, I am enjoying the new gadget and have fun with it.