iPad mini with Retina display
The iPad mini 2 Retina is available to buy now, but not if you’re living in the UK.
After much speculation over the past few hours, Apple has made its iPad mini with Retina display, aka the iPad mini 2, available to buy.
This follows an unprecedented leak from Apple’s own internal GSX tool for its support technicians, reported by MacRumours, which pointed to a November 12 launch in a number of key territories.
Those countries include Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and United States. There was no mention of the UK, which is a little odd, as the country is typically one of the first to get new Apple gear.
Sure enough, the UK Apple online store still shows the iPad mini with Retina display as being available "later in November."
Evidently those major production issues we've been reading about are to blame for this low-key and strictly limited roll-out.
The US, meanwhile, gets the device starting at $399 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model, and running right up to $829 for the 128GB cellular version. Each model comes equipped with a 7.9-inch Retina display, with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels.
Elsewhere, the iPad mini 2 comes with Apple’s blazingly fast A7 processor - the same 64-bit dual-core chip that debuted in the iPhone 5S at the end of September.
The iPad mini 2 joins the iPad Air in Apple’s tablet range. The Air copies the mini’s slim and light design, with the same thin side-bezels and a 9.7-inch Retina display.
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