Apple today launched the new iPad mini with the ultra-powerful A17 Pro chip. The new iPad mini maintains the popular ultraportable design, comes in eight beautiful colors, including new blue and purple, and features a beautiful 17-inch Liquid Retina display. The A2 Pro chip delivers significantly higher performance in even the most demanding activities. It has up to three times faster CPU and GPU than the previous generation iPad mini, a faster Neural Engine1 and supports Apple Intelligence. Support Apple Pencil Pro takes the versatility and capabilities of the new iPad mini even further, opening up completely new possibilities for your work and creation. The 4MP wide-angle rear camera with Smart HDR 12 takes more natural photos with greater dynamic range. Additionally, with the help of machine learning, you can recognize and scan documents directly from the camera application.
The new iPad mini features iPadOS 18 with all-day battery life and all-new features. The price for the 15490GB storage configuration, which has double the capacity compared to the previous generation, starts from CZK 128. So the new iPad mini delivers the authentic iPad experience in a highly portable design at an unbeatable price. Customers can order the new iPad mini today, and it will be available starting Wednesday, September 23.
“There is no better device in the world than iPad mini. People appreciate its excellent combination of ultra-portable design, high performance, and versatility. This makes it popular with all kinds of users. The new iPad mini supported by Apple Intelligence delivers practical, personal intelligence while protecting users’ privacy,” explains Bob Borchers, Vice President of Apple Global Product Marketing. “Powerful A17 Pro chip, faster connectivity and support “The new iPad mini with Apple Pencil Pro is a full-featured iPad with a portable design and affordable price.”
The A17 Pro chip delivers incredible performance.
The new iPad mini gets a major upgrade in the form of the A17 Pro chip, delivering tremendous performance and high efficiency in an ultra-portable design. Compared to the A15 Bionic chip in the previous generation iPad mini, the powerful A17 Pro brings many improvements. The three-core CPU with 6 performance cores and 30 economy cores achieves up to 30% higher CPU performance.1 And the 5-core GPU on the A17 Pro chip delivers up to 25% better graphics performance than the previous generation.1 A17 Pro also opens up completely new possibilities, including support for professional applications used by designers, pilots, doctors and other professions. It provides users with unprecedentedly faster photo editing capabilities, much more powerful augmented reality (AR) applications, and more. Games look more realistic on the new iPad mini thanks to hardware-accelerated ray tracing that’s up to 4x faster than pure software ray tracing, dynamic cache support, and hardware-accelerated network shadowing. Users will feel the power of the ultra-portable iPad mini in everything they do, from creating engaging content faster in Affinity Designer to playing graphics-intensive games like Zenless Zone Zero.
Faster Connection
Faster wireless and wired connections allow iPad mini users to do more on the go. The new iPad mini supports Wi-Fi 6E, up to 6 times faster than the previous generation.2 So users can download files, play online games, and stream movies more smoothly. Wi‑Fi + Cellular models with 5G support allow you to work with files, communicate, and quickly back up data on the go. The cellular model of the new iPad mini uses eSIM, which is more secure than a physical SIM card. This allows users to easily set up or digitally transfer an existing plan and use multiple mobile plans on one device. Customers can easily connect to the new iPad mini through their data plans in more than 190 countries and territories around the world without a physical SIM card from their local carrier. The USB-C port is now 10x faster than the previous generation and transfers data at speeds of up to 10Gb/s, so you can get large photos and videos even faster.
Amazing photos and videos
iPad mini’s convenient portability and top-of-the-line camera combine to create room for a variety of mobile creative processes. The 12MP wide-angle rear camera takes beautiful photos with more detailed rendering and more vivid colors thanks to Smart HDR 4. The powerful 16-core Neural Engine allows the new iPad mini to recognize documents directly from the camera application with the help of artificial intelligence, while the new True Tone Flash removes shadows from documents. The 12MP ultra-wide portrait front camera supports centering and is suitable for all uses for iPad mini users.
Magical Possibilities Apple Pencil Pro
Apple Pencil Pro opens up magical possibilities and convenient ways to work. This turns iPad mini into a smart laptop that users can take anywhere. Apple Pencil Pro recognizes when you press and brings up a new palette that lets you quickly select tools, line weights, and colors, so users don’t get in the way of the creative process. As you draw with gentle vibrations, special tactile motors identify movements that complement your pressing or tapping movements as well as intelligent shapes, making for highly intuitive use. Apple Pencil Pro. Rolling over to use Apple Pencil Pro gives users precise control over the tool they’re working with, including changing the direction of the brush or pen tip, just like they would on paper. And the Hold function of the Pencil on Apple Display shows the user the exact orientation of the tool before the first stroke is made. Apple Pencil Pro also uses a new magnetic interface to support find and pair, charge, and clip functions on the side of iPad mini. In addition, you can purchase the Pencil (USB-C), which is compatible with iPad mini i and is an ideal tool for Apple note taking, drawing, annotating, journaling, etc., at a low price.
iPadOS 18 brings powerful, intelligent new features
iPadOS 18 It also provides other powerful features that enhance the performance of your iPad and make it a more versatile and intelligent device. Advanced frameworks in iPadOS, such as Core ML, pave the way for developers to use Neural Engin to develop powerful AI features that run directly on the device.
- calculatorDesigned with the unique features of iPad in mind, lets you solve equations in a whole new way. Apple Pencil. It also serves as a basic and scientific calculator with new history features and unit conversion functions. help math notes Users can enter math expressions on the keyboard or by hand, and immediately complete the answer in handwriting similar to their own. You can also insert graphs by creating and using variables or entering equations. Users can also access math notes from the Notes application. And math functions are available in every notebook.
- Handwritten notes in the app note Now thanks to that feature smart script And the ability Apple Pencil is more responsive, flexible, and easier to read. Smart Script offers convenient new handwriting editing features so users can easily add spaces or paste copied text to make it look like they wrote it themselves. As you write, Apple Pencil automatically improves in real time to become smoother, straighter, and more readable.
- nobe funk voice recording a transcript With iPad, you can record lectures or conversations and create transcripts that sync with the audio. Users can then easily search for specific moments in the recording.
- iPad now supports more customization options. area Users can customize it to their liking and place widgets and app icons wherever there is free space. Application icons and widgets can be darkened, recolored with tinting effects, and even enlarged. This makes it easy for users to get the look that’s perfect for them. newly designed control center Easier access to the most used features and new groups of controls that you use most often. You can now add new controls from other developer applications here.
- application picture We’ve just received our biggest update yet! Users will appreciate powerful new tools that help them find the photos they want faster. The user interface is simplified and customizable, taking full advantage of the iPad’s larger display and allowing users to browse photos and videos by theme without having to organize them into albums.
- Zprabi Help users stay connected and express themselves with new animated message effects, redesigned Tapbacks, or the ability to schedule messages to be sent at a later time.
Apple Intelligence Built for You
Powerful A17 Pro chip paves the way for new iPad mini Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence is deeply integrated into iOS 18 and leverages the power of the chip. Apple Creation Model Simplifies and speeds up everyday tasks by understanding the Apple language, generating text, recognizing and creating images, performing tasks across applications, and leveraging personal context. Many of those models feature Apple Intelligence running entirely on the device. Private cloud computing also provides the ability to flexibly scale computing capacity between on-device processing and large-scale server models running on dedicated servers with chips. Apple.
The first feature set, Apple Intelligence, will be available in US English on iPads with the A1 Pro or M18.1 chip as part of this month’s free iPadOS 17 software update. Apple Intelligence provides intuitive, easy-to-use options to comfortably manage your daily activities.3
- writing instrument It helps you edit, proofread, and summarize text almost anywhere you write, including Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps.
- Siri It is more deeply integrated into the system environment and has a new design. When activated on your iPad, the edges of the screen glow elegantly. Improved language understanding makes communicating with Siri more natural and fluid. Siri doesn’t get embarrassed when you interrupt and can take the context of successive requests into account. Users can also communicate with her through input. He also has extensive knowledge about iPad and other devices. Apple and their features.
- memory Now you can use your photos to create a movie just by entering a description. And new tools clean Recognize and remove distracting elements from the photo background without changing the subject.
Other Apple Intelligence features will be available over the next month.
- image playground Users can create interesting images in an instant.
- pictorial cane A new feature in the tool palette is Apple Pencil, which creates images derived from rough sketches.
- Emojis will take things to a whole new level. Users can create original emojis by simply entering a description or selecting a photo of a friend or family member. Genmoji.
- Siri It can also leverage the user’s personal circumstances to provide intelligent responses that are literally personalized. Screen content recognition allows you to understand and interact with user content. It also handles hundreds of new in-app actions. Apple and other developers.
- iPadOS 18 has integrated services in many places ChatGPTThis allows users to leverage Siri or typing tools based on their knowledge, or their ability to understand images and documents, without having to jump between different tools. It protects your privacy by masking your IP address and the fact that OpenAI does not store your requests. Users can access ChatGPT for free without creating an account. Anyone who already has an account and chooses to link it will be subject to ChatGPT’s data processing policy.
environmentally friendly
The new iPad mini was designed with the environment in mind. 100% recycled aluminum is used in the shell, 100% recycled rare earth elements are used in all magnets, and 100% recycled gold is used in plating and tin for soldering various circuit boards. The new iPad mini meets Apple’s high standards for energy efficiency and is free of mercury, brominated flame retardants, and PVC. And because the wrap is 100% fiber, Apple is once again one step closer to its goal of eliminating plastic from all packaging by 2025.
In terms of global operations, Apple is already carbon neutral today and is on track to achieve its ambitious plans. Apple is committed to achieving carbon neutrality across all its activities by the end of 2030.
Pricing and Availability
Customers can order the new iPad mini starting today, May 29, in 23 countries and territories, including the United States. It will be shipped from Wednesday 21st September and will also be sold in stores. Apple at Apple Stores and Authorized Resellers. The new iPad mini is available in blue, purple, star white, or space gray. Price starts from 15490 CZK For Wi-Fi model a 19990 CZK For Wi-Fi + Cellular models.