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, developed and marketed by

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Announced in a press release along with the third-generation iPad Air on March 18, 2019 and released the same day. Its predecessor, the iPad Mini 4, 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

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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, iPad (9th generation) and the iPad Air 3 were the last iPad models to use a

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port and a home button. The iPad Mini 5 was discontinued on September 14, 2021, with the announcement of the

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Features

Hardware

The dimensions of the fifth-generation iPad Mini are nearly identical to the iPad Mini 4. It was available in three color options - Silver, Space Gray and Gold. It 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 iPad Air 2 in 2014, as such, it cannot be recorded in 4K video. The iPad Mini uses a

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 iPad Mini 5 includes a Touch ID home button. The Apple A12 Bionic chip powering the fifth-generation iPad Mini 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 fifth-generation iPad Mini 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 Tablet computers Touchscreen portable media players Tablet computers introduced in 2019 Discontinued Apple Inc. products