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iPad mini OLED Hands-On: A Delectable Cupcake of a Tablet

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iPad mini OLED Hands-On: A Delectable Cupcake of a Tablet

Like its name suggests, the iPad mini never had to be some mammoth of tablet potential. The smallest iPad—now with an 8.5-inch OLED display—works best as a companion device. Your phone is too small, but an 11-inch tablet takes up too much room in your bag? That’s where an iPad mini shows up and offers that secondary screen for notetaking, scribbling, and light editing. Now it looks better than ever, it’s more powerful than ever, and none of that will likely change when and how you use it.

The previous A17 Pro iPad mini from 2024 wasn’t a huge jump from the previous sixth-gen version. The eighth-gen iPad mini swaps around the 12-megapixel “Center Stage” camera to the landscape side of the device. That doesn’t actually change much, considering this tablet does not have a dedicated Magic Keyboard like the M4 iPad Air or M5 iPad Pro. Instead, it means you’ll be taking your FaceTime calls with some variety of folio (Apple still sells their own $79 Smart Folio redesigned for the modified tablet body) longways instead of standing up.

What’s better than that is how slim the new device feels. Apple reduced the thickness from 6.3mm to 5.4mm. That’s only a teensy bit thicker than a modern iPad Pro, and I’m amazed just how much of a Weight Watchers routine Apple managed to force the iPad into, especially considering the new screen with reduced bezels doesn’t increase the overall tablet footprint.

What I was curious to find was whether the smaller bezels made it any more difficult to hold.


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