OLED iPad Mini Starts at $699 After Second Price Hike This Year

Apple contiguous announced the archetypal OLED iPad mini, and it carries a beauteous hefty terms summation compared to conscionable a fewer years ago. The caller exemplary starts astatine $699, up $100 (or 17%) from the $599 starting terms of the erstwhile procreation model.


It's hard to judge now, but the previous-generation iPad mini kept its $499 terms successful 2024 adjacent erstwhile Apple doubled basal retention to 128GB. But past earlier this year, Apple accrued the starting terms to $599 arsenic portion of sweeping terms increases crossed its merchandise enactment owing to representation and spot shortages.

The caller exemplary starts with the aforesaid 128GB of storage, truthful the $100 summation since June isn't offset by a capableness bump – but you bash get an OLED show alternatively of LCD. Wi-Fi + Cellular models emergence by the aforesaid $100, from $749 to $849, and acquisition pricing starts astatine $649.

All that being said, the terms hike is little than expectations from earlier this month, erstwhile the OLED iPad mini was rumored to outgo $200 much than the existent model.

The higher terms accompanies the mini's biggest update successful years, featuring that 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro chip, IP67 h2o and particulate resistance, a caller Acoustic Display talker system, Apple's N1 wireless chip, arsenic good arsenic the C2 modem connected cellular models. The colour scope though has narrowed from 4 finishes to two: Midnight and Starlight.

There's besides a caller TechWoven Smart Folio that costs $79, up from $59 for the erstwhile Smart Folio. Pre-orders for the caller iPad mini unfastened Wednesday, October 28, with availability starting Friday, November 6.
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