After reporting details about upcoming updates to the iPad Pro and the 9th generation iPad that we expect this year, Macotakara is released today with a new supply chain report focused on the iPad mini. The report says that the 6th generation iPad mini will have an 8.4-inch screen with smaller bezels.
New features of iPad mini
Unfortunately, the iPad mini will not have a design revision similar to the iPad Air 4 and iPad Pro. Instead, it will keep the bezels on the top and bottom with a home button and Touch ID, plus Lightning connectivity on the bottom. The report says (translated):
It is a narrow frame like the iPad Air (3rd generation), and the design goes with the iPad (9th generation), which continues to use Touch ID and Lightning port.
Macotakara says the updated iPad mini will be released in March. This is in line with an expected iPad Pro update that we also expect sometime during the first quarter of this year.
Last May, Apple’s trusted analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, reported that Apple would launch an 8.5-inch and 9-inch iPad mini during the first half of 2021. At the time, Kuo offered no details about the design of the updated iPad mini, instead, saying that the selling points would be “the affordable price and the adoption of fast chips”.
Other details about the iPad mini update are unknown, but the screen size is interesting. Apple currently sells the iPad mini with a 7.9-inch screen. It looks like Apple will slightly reduce the frame sizes of the iPad mini to fit the larger 8.4-inch screen while keeping the home button on the bottom.
Apple last updated the iPad mini in 2019, bringing a faster A12 Bionic processor, in addition to other improvements.
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