The future of all iPad is the same - the screen on the whole face, Face ID or Touch ID, integrated into the button on the top face. If this year, the iPad mini will still come out, it will affect all this - but there will be no enthusiasm on this occasion - even if the diagonal of its screen will increase to 9.5 or 10 inches, and Apple A14 will accelerate it at times. So that the smallest tablet from Apple struck and shocked the public of this little. For iPad mini, something was invented something uneaten and completely incredible, and according to information from several sources independent of each other, one of the most difficult technical obstacles to the implementation of this plan was already overcome. iPad MINI will be the first apple flexible device, or one of the first devices.
Information about this project first appeared on the media pages in the first days of November last year, almost simultaneously. None of the media published this information is not famous for the reliability of its forecasts, and the project is incredible - naturally, they did not believe. Outsiders promised that the iPhone Flip (flexible iPhone) will be released in 2022, and that he will replace the iPad mini. About the iPhone Flip in 2022 rumors have been going for a long time, but before the terrible end of the iPad Mini before these publications no one thought.
On the last day of last year, it became known that at one of the Foxconn plants in Shenzhen in China ended the tests of several prototypes of flexible devices ordered by Apple. Two prototypes successfully passed all the tests, including a durability test (100,000 bends and extensions). Apple will choose the option from them that will be used in the bending iPhone. In the disclosed position, according to an eyewitness, all these prototypes are very similar to the iPad mini. It seems like confirmation of an incredible version, and it seems like not.
What is iPhone Flip
In the November version, some technical data of the iPhone Flip were shown, which must replace the iPad mini. 8 RAM gigabytes, the basic volume of the SSD drive of 256 GB, and either the OLED display from Samsung (according to the Chinese version) or the Miniled display from the LG (according to the Israelis version).
The basic version of the iPhone Flip, in which the Chinese and Israelis are solidarity, will cost $ 1,499. Approximately as its current flexible counterparts.
It is not surprising that they did not believe. When testing the housings of prototypes and integrated mechanisms for strength and durability, such details are unknown either foxconn, nor even Apple. In the test cases there are no electronics, maybe they are filled with some filler. Therefore, the version of the iPad mini rejected together with everything else. And in vain - it makes sense in it, it is crazy (in the apple style) and may well have success.
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Will there be a new iPad mini?
In 2012-2015, the tablets with a screen diagonal of 7-8 inches were the most popular, but Fabels, large smartphones, took the market from them. Sales of small tablets fell, it affected iPad mini - until March 18, 2019, iPad Mini 4 slowly, but right, faded. In 2019, the press release was declared the current mini, the fifth generation.
Surprise? It is almost three times smoking (still, A12 instead of A8), the display is much better, and it is better not only the display. But what is the meaning of this model? The iPad mini began to be sold better, but he could not become a hit of sales - and did not. Why did his new model needed? But if we assume that the company's management approved the development of the bended iPad mini and after a long break again created the command on the development of iPad mini, everything seems to fall into place.
The iPad Mini of the sixth or seventh generation is the likely candidate for the role of the first flex device from Apple.
Patents on the mechanisms of flex devices Apple received until 2016. In October last year, Apple purchased small batches of flex OLED displays from Samsung, to explore. If Samsung had not promised something, and she would not hope to earn good on it, would hardly go to apple towards. Well, these tests, the information about which was gradually specified. Recently it became known that there were not single samples of products, but small series, and not only they are - but also equipment for their production. These tests were also successful.