Apple iPad Mini 3 what do you expect

WASHINGTON: Samsung dominating the tablet market now American technological giant Apple is eyeing to debut is flagship mini tablet Apple iPad Mini 3.

Samsung is dominating the tablet market since the beginning of the year but not managing to capture the mini tablet market due to brilliance of Apple.

Apple shock the world by introducing high end mini tablet with Retina display, namely iPad Mini with Retina display. Now company is eyeing aiming to launch iPad Mini with Retina display’s successor iPad Mini 3.

More positively he predicts that the iPad mini 3 will get upgraded to an A8 chip and come with Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint scanner.

You end up entering passwords just as much on an iPad as you do on an iPhone, so it’s surprising that the newest iPads didn’t get the same Touch ID fingerprint sensor as the iPhone 5S got.

We’d really like to see these included in the iPad mini 3, not least because they would allow multiuser interaction – just touch to switch to your personal iPad account. Of course Apple would also have to build multi user support into iOS first, and it’s arguable they’d rather sell you two iPads instead but the few rumors that have emerged so far suggest Touch ID may in fact be in the works.

16GB of storage in the cheapest iPad used to sound like a lot but now it’s really starting to look a bit stingy, with apps like GarageBand and iMovie going free, some iOS games starting to take up over a gigabyte of space and Retina screens making high resolution movies worth loading onto your iPad.

The steep price jumps for the higher capacity models look cynical, especially when flash memory itself is not expensive and Apple offers no way to add storage via card slots. Starting the new models at 32GB would be more reasonable.

The Apple likely to hold an event on October 21, in which company is expected to launch the new iPad Air 2 along with iPad Mini 3 and more.

Adding a cellular option to an iPad mini currently adds £100/$130/AU$150 to the price, and of course you have to pay for data on top of that.

Given that the only difference between the innards of a Wi-Fi only and a cellular iPad is the addition of some mass-produced radio circuitry, it would be nice to bring the additional cost premium down a bit so that more people would opt for the cellular option and be able to use their iPads on the move. This is especially true of the supremely portable mini.

A bit of a pipe dream perhaps, but wireless charging technology already exists and is used by some phone and tablet manufacturers, such as in the Google Nexus 7.

Haptic or pressure sensitive screens already exist, and make for more accurate and flexible interaction with your device, especially for games, music or art apps where you want your finger to do more than just register a touch.

Many competing tablets do support card slots for adding your own memory cards and this can be a massively useful thing to be able to do. You can even do it now with an add-on for iPads… sure, this is for photographers, but we’d love to see the functionality extended out, and it would stop Apple having to backtrack on having inbuilt expandable storage.

The iPad-specific but it’s becoming a real issue. Apple gives every Apple ID a free 5GB of iCloud storage which is great, but it’s no longer enough.

The battery life of the iPad mini 2 is actually very good, but with portable devices like these there’s no real upper limit on how good people would ideally like it to be.

Since Apple seems for the most part to be able to make each new generation of devices smaller or lighter while maintaining or even improving battery life, we’d hope to see this continue with the next generation of iPads.

There’s no doubt that iPads have been getting better in this respect, as have iPhones. But from the user’s point of view the space around the edges of the screen on a touchscreen device is largely wasted space.

You do need some non-touch sensitive space in order to be able to hold a device without triggering it accidentally, but not much. So if Apple were able to keep shrinking the size of the bezel around the edges of the touch screen area, that would be pretty cool.

iPads have become very popular for taking pictures and video, especially the more portable mini.

The iPad mini 2 has a 5MP camera with 1080p HD video support and that’s good, but it lacks the slo-mo support of the iPhone 5S and also the filters for image editing although you can obviously perform some edits and use HDR mode, and use third-party photo or camera apps.

We’d be happier if it had NO camera and was a little bit thinner and less expensive – plus it would stop people using their iPad as a device to take pictures in lieu of an actual camera. If this is you, please stop. Stop now.

Apple could conceivably add features via software updates, but a higher resolution stills camera would be nice to see in future if it has to be on there.