The fifth-generation iPad Mini (stylized and marketed as iPad mini and colloquially referred to as iPad Mini 5) is a

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in the

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line, designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. Announced in a press release along with the third-generation iPad Air on March 18, 2019 and released the same day, it was the first iPad Mini that was released without a live press event. Its predecessor, the

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, was discontinued on the same day. It shares a similar design to the iPad Mini 4 and features the Apple A12 Bionic chip, 64 or 256GB storage, a more modernly upgraded 7.9-inch Retina Display with support for

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(1st Generation), True Tone display and Bluetooth 5.0. iFixit's teardown shows this iPad Mini is equipped with an upgraded 3GB of

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RAM, the same as the

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. The iPad Mini 5 is the final model with a home button, which has been present on all models since the original in November 2012. The iPad Mini 5 was discontinued on September 14, 2021, with the announcement of the iPad Mini (6th generation).

Features

Hardware

The iPad Mini (2019) features the upgraded front camera system of the 7MP (1080p) camera used since 2016 starting with the

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and continued with the iPhone XS, while the rear camera system continues with the older 8MP (1080p) used since the

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in 2014, as such, it cannot be recorded in 4K video. The iPad Mini uses a

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port and has a headphone jack. It has a True Tone display, which allows the LCD to adapt to ambient lighting to change its color and intensity in different environments. It also has a wide color display (Display P3 color gamut), which means it can shows more vibrant color compared to the previous generation. The Apple A12 Bionic chip powering the iPad Mini (2019) has a 66% higher clock speed than its predecessor, which had a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor; (the

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in the previous generation was clocked higher than in the

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). The Apple A12 Bionic chip has a 2.49 GHz six-core processor. The iPad Mini (2019) is 3 × faster than the iPad Mini 4, and supports

(1st Generation).

Reception

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rated the Mini 5 as a 8.5 out of 10, praising that it has the same specs as the larger

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and had solid performance while noting that it had a "seven-year-old exterior design with huge bezels" and uses a Lightning port instead of

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Timeline

References

External links

* – official site {{S-end Mini 5 iOS Tablet computers Touchscreen portable media players Tablet computers introduced in 2019